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Connecticut Law Tribune

Citing Manafort, NY Lawmakers Urge Airbnb to Scrub Illegal Listings

More than two dozen New York state and city lawmakers are asking home-sharing platform Airbnb to remove any illegal listings following the indictment of President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, who is accused of using the service to let out a property cited in money laundering charges in the indictment.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

'The Armed Citizen'

An armed citizen and hero could not prevent an enraged man from turning his rage into mass murder. Only sensible firearms law in a sane culture could do that. We have neither.
7 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Deliberations Set to Restart Monday After Menendez Juror Is Excused

Jurors in the corruption trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-New Jersey, and Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen are set to resume deliberations on Monday after failing to reach a verdict in their first three days behind closed doors.
3 minute read

Delaware Law Weekly

Officials Move to Dismiss Prisoner's Suit Claiming Abuses After Takeover

Attorneys from the Delaware Department of Justice on Thursday attacked a prisoner lawsuit stemming from the Feb. 1 takeover of James T. Vaughn Correctional Center, saying the "broad and undefined" allegations failed to link current and former state officials to supposed abuses at the prison in the wake of the deadly ordeal.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Indicted Suffolk DA Spota Announces Plan to Resign on Friday

Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota, who was charged more than three weeks ago with allegedly covering up a former police chief's assault of an incarcerated suspect, says he will resign on Friday, according to his office.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Supreme Court Takes Up Ex-House Speaker DeWeese's PCRA Appeal

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments over whether H. William DeWeese's conviction should be overturned because his trial counsel failed to preserve for appeal what DeWeese said was exculpatory testimony by 14 "mantra" witnesses who were barred from testifying at trial.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Retroactive Application of 'Birchfield' Denied in DUI Case

A man attempting to retroactively apply the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in Birchfield v. North Dakota to the pending appeal of his DUI conviction cannot do so because he failed to raise the relevant issue prior to his appeal, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Krasner's Election Win May Have Been the Easy Part

With nearly 75 percent of the vote, District Attorney-elect Larry Krasner easily won the race to become Philadelphia's next top prosecutor, but what comes next might be the more difficult part.
11 minute read

New York Law Journal

Reactions Mixed on Clawback Measure's Effect in Corruption Cases

New York voters overwhelmingly approved on Tuesday a measure giving judges the power to claw back pension benefits from public officials convicted of feloniously misusing the powers of their offices, but reactions from the legal community were mixed as to whether the change will be effective.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Legal Aid Chief James Reflects on Org's 50 Years in Queens, His Departure

Attorney-in-Charge Seymour James reflects on his decades in the Queens legal aid office, the biggest challenges facing his successor and the job being done by Queens DA Richard Brown's office.
16 minute read

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