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Possibly Heeding Calls for Reform, Supreme Court Justices Shed Stock Holdings

The U.S. Supreme Court seems as intractable as ever on the perennial issue of allowing broadcast coverage of its proceedings. But there are glimmers of glasnost at the court—most notably the recent sale of nearly $1.5 million in stocks by justices apparently seeking to avoid investment-related recusals.
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New Jersey Law Journal

Court Allows for Confidentiality in Unresolved Investigations

A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that law enforcement agencies have no obligation to reveal the identity or records of a person who may be or has been under investigation but who has not been arrested or charged with a crime.
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

Court Sides With Prisons Agency in Public Records Case

An appeals court said the Florida Department of Corrections did not violate the state's public records law by refusing to provide specific explanations about why it would not disclose information sought by the Miami Herald.
7 minute read

National Law Journal

Journalists Drop Suit for Ex-Judge's 'Inappropriate' Emails

U.S. Distict Judge Richard Cebull of Montana retired in 2013. The journalists worried their appeal seeking copies of his emails could narrow public records access, their lawyer said.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

A $67,000 Home Robbery Exposes $500 Billion Problem in Argentina

The case of $67,000 stolen from Argentine Vice President Gabriela Michetti's house should have ended when her bodyguard was arrested. Instead, prosecutors have shifted to tracing the money's origin, making her a public example of the challenges President Mauricio Macri's faces in weaning the country off its reliance on cash, an age-old system that in many instances hides tax evasion.
9 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Capitol Report

Following is a listing of executive and legislation activity for the week of Aug. 22. Members of the General Assembly are scheduled to return to session Sept. 19; Senate members on Sept. 26.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

Push Continues for Florida Lethal Injection Details

Lawyers representing Arizona death row inmates aren't backing down from a battle with Florida corrections officials over the release of documents related to execution drugs, part of a drawn-out challenge to Arizona's lethal-injection process.
10 minute read

Daily Business Review

Florida May Rebury Reform School Bodies in the State Capital

Amid a contentious debate that evoked race, spilled blood and child abuse, a state-created task force recommended that Florida move bodies found on the campus of a now-shuttered reform school and bury them somewhere in the state's capital city.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Wishnefsky v. Pa. Dep't of Corr., PICS Case No. 16-1010 (Pa. Commw. July 29, 2016) Cohn Jubelirer, J. (15 pages).

By | August 19, 2016
The Office of Open Records erred when it issued its final determination denying petitioner's RTKL request, where the Department of Corrections altered its basis for denial of petitioner's request. Order of the OOR vacated, case remanded.
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Daily Business Review

Environmentalists Seek Coral Protection in Port Everglades Project

Environmental groups want a federal court to order more protection for coral reefs during the planned expansion of Port Everglades in Broward County.
6 minute read

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