By Jonathan Ringel | August 4, 2017
News that the Department of Justice is gearing up to investigate claims that university diversity policies discriminate against white applicants intrigues Lee Parks of Parks Chesin & Walbert.
By Barry Kamins | August 4, 2017
Criminal Law and Procedure columnist Barry Kamins reviews the new best practices for identification procedures by witnesses, which reflect the results of substantial scientific research in the area of memory, perception and recall.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | August 4, 2017
A husband's claims for damages pertaining to his wife's extramarital affair with their pastor were barred because such claims were previously abolished by statute, and the First Amendment precluded the court's intrusion into religious matters.
By Carley Meiners | The Legal Intelligencer | August 4, 2017
Criminal conflict of interest statute did not violate separation of powers, where it did not attempt to regulate conduct specifically regulated as part of the practice of law. Judgment of sentence affirmed, case remanded for resentencing.
By Cogan Schneier | August 3, 2017
Special counsel Robert Mueller has empaneled a grand jury to investigate Russian interference in last year's presidential elections.
By Jed I. Bergman and Cynthia M. Jordano | August 3, 2017
Jed I. Bergman and Cynthia M. Jordano summarize the key principles courts generally apply in deciding whether to permit Fifth Amendment adverse inferences in civil suits against corporate defendants. To support drawing such adverse inferences, a plaintiff must satisfy three prerequisites. First, there must be independent evidence corroborating the inference. Second, the plaintiff must persuade the court to impute that inference to the corporate defendant. Third, the probative value of the inference must outweigh any unfair prejudice.
By John Council | August 3, 2017
For the second time this year, Adam Milasincic wiped out a defamation suit involving critical remarks about animal rights.
By Jenna Greene | August 2, 2017
This is the brief everyone wishes they got to write: the ACLU's amicus submission siding with comedian John Oliver. It is truly and gloriously over the top.
By Katheryn Hayes Tucker | August 2, 2017
Veteran death penalty defense attorney Jimmy Berry of Marietta closed the book on his last open capital murder case Tuesday.
By P.J. D'Annunzio | August 2, 2017
A Philadelphia man claiming he was beaten by city police and subjected to a racial slur during an interrogation has lost his civil rights suit against the department.
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