Connecticut Law Tribune | News
By Robert Storace | July 30, 2018
The Connecticut Supreme Court has overturned a Connecticut Appellate Court's ruling against David Eubanks, who was convicted on gun charges, but later claimed his attorney botched the defense by failing to object to hearsay testimony.
By Stephen Treglia | July 30, 2018
In his E-Communications column, Stephen Treglia writes: Late last month, SCOTUS issued its most far-reaching expansion of the right to privacy in over 50 years in Carpenter v. United States. While not completely abandoning legal precedent that had been black-letter law, it is most certainly the first injection of the color gray.
By Ellis Kim | July 27, 2018
The list includes a former Winston & Strawn attorney who has mostly made his name as a Democratic political consultant.
New York Law Journal | Expert Opinion
By Sharon M. Porcellio | July 26, 2018
U.S. Senior District Judge Michael A. Telesca then had more than 10 briefs and supplemental letter briefs and multiple statements and counter-statements of fact and other submissions from the two parties to decide the pending summary judgment motions.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Leonard Deutchman | July 26, 2018
In Carpenter v. United States, No. 16-402 (S.Ct. June 22, 2018), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Fourth Amendment prohibited the government from using the Stored Communications Act, 18 U. S. C. Section 2703(d) (the SCA), to obtain from wireless cellphone carriers the “time-stamped record known as cell-site location information (CSLI),” which records (as explained below), created over time and saved, can, when looked at together, provide a picture of the public movements of the cellphone user.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Zack Needles | July 26, 2018
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has granted allocatur in a DUI case to tackle one seemingly straightforward question: "Should Birchfield v. North Dakota apply to all cases not yet final when the decision was rendered?"
By Michael Booth | July 25, 2018
The court said the Patient Safety Act was enacted to ensure that a hospital, after an adverse event, would undertake a thorough self-critical analysis in order to help prevent such incidents.
By Michael Booth | July 25, 2018
Hearsay evidence can be the basis for collecting DNA, but the evidence must indicate that there is a likely chance that the DNA sample will further the prosecution's case, the court held.
By Rhys Dipshan | July 25, 2018
In a move to make courts more comfortable with using cloud-based evidence management tools, CaseLines has a filed a patent to use blockchain as a digital evidence verification feature.
By Amanda Bronstad | July 19, 2018
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Maren Nelson allowed the plaintiffs' expert testimony before and during trial but, after the Aug. 21 verdict, found there was insufficient evidence linking Johnson & Johnson's baby powder to the plaintiff's ovarian cancer, plaintiffs lawyers say.
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