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Ex-City Council Hopeful Pleads Guilty to Stealing Federal Job Funds

A former candidate for Atlanta City Council who also served as a city budget analyst has pleaded guilty to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funds earmarked for job training programs from the Atlanta Workforce Development Agency, the U.S. Attorney in Atlanta announced Wednesday.
7 minute read

The Recorder

People v. Alexander

By | December 14, 2016
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

DOJ Charges Ex-Pharma Execs With Price-Fixing

Two former high-level executives of a generic pharmaceutical company have been charged with rigging prices for an antibiotic, the Department of Justice announced.
9 minute read

Daily Business Review

Liberal Law Profs 'Lay Down a Marker' on Trump

More than 40 liberal law professors sent a letter to President-elect Donald Trump, voicing “great concern” with his commitment to the nation's constitutional system and opposing the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama, to be the next attorney general.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Cosby Lawyers Say Civil Attorney Crafted Accusers' Stories

Cosby's lawyers rejected the argument that 13 accusers' accounts of alleged assault by Cosby should be allowed into the criminal case against him, arguing their civil attorney, Gloria Allred, crafted the accounts to sound similar.
8 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

'Extraordinary' Lawyer Polan Remembered at Memorial Service

People from all areas of Diane "Cookie" Polan's life turned out in New Haven recently for her memorial service, recalling not only what a tenacious civil rights lawyer she was, but also that she was a loyal friend, as well as a "connector" responsible for many friendships.
11 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Texas Lawmakers Set to Weigh Treatment of 17-Year-Olds as Adults in Criminal Proceedings

In Texas, if you are 17 and older and commit a criminal offense you will, if sentenced to serve time, go to an adult rather than juvenile facility. That could change.
11 minute read

New York Law Journal

USA v. Franceschi

By | December 14, 2016
Evidence of Prior Livery Cab Robberies Admissible to Show Modus Operandi, Plan
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Mexico's Drug War Marks a Decade Amid Doubts, Changes

Ten years after Mexico declared a war on drugs, the offensive has left some major drug cartels splintered and many old-line kingpins such as Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in jail, but done little to reduce crime or violence in the nation's roughest regions.
11 minute read

Daily Business Review

US Supreme Court Justice Criticizes Death Penalty in Florida Case

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to take up a death row inmate's appeal in the four-decade-old murder of an Orlando car salesman, but Justice Stephen Breyer used the case to raise broader questions about the death penalty.
6 minute read

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