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National Law Journal

Williams & Connolly Fights Bid to Depose Clinton over Emails

As the controversy wears on over Hillary Clinton's email use as secretary of state, her personal lawyers are looking to shut down a government watchdog group's bid to depose the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Lawyers Get Fired Up at Administrative Hearing on Pot License

More than two years after lawmakers legalized a limited type of medical marijuana, an administrative law judge heard arguments in a dispute about whether a Northeast Florida nursery should receive one of the highly sought-after licenses to grow, process and distribute the noneuphoric pot.
11 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Dallas Attack Breaks Pattern Shown in New AG Data

Until the shooting deaths this week of five Dallas police officers, and the wounding of seven others, there had been 14 shootings of law enforcement officers in Texas in 2016. None of those shootings led to deaths. And none involved officers from the Dallas Police Department, according to data that the Texas attorney general's office began collecting from police departments statewide Sept. 1, 2015.
6 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Why Not Connecticut's State Civic Network?

We have yet to hear a convincing argument in favor of exposing less—not more—of our government's operations to public scrutiny.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Amnesty Int'l Says Mexican Women Victims of Sexual Torture

The human rights group Amnesty International, in a report released early Tuesday, said that in interviews with 100 incarcerated Mexican women, 72 reported sexual torture during their arrests. Ninety-seven had been beaten or received some kind of physical abuse. All 100 reported at least harassment or psychological abuse.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Smith Butz LLC v. Pa. Dep't of Envtl. Prot., PICS Case No. 16-0808 (Pa. Commw. June 17, 2016) Friedman, J. (15 pages).

Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) properly determined that it did not possess records of a notice of violation (NOV) sought by requestor, where responsible department employees attested that the NOV identified by requestor was never issued and that no NOV or other responsive documents existed. Order of the Office of Open Records (OOR) affirmed.
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Police Dashcam Videos Releasable as Public Records, Court Rules

A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that police video recordings taken from dashboard cameras are documents that must be released under the state's Open Public Records Act.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Federal Appeals Court Rejects Public-Records Racketeering Case

A federal appeals court rejected a class action lawsuit filed by a Palm Beach County town that alleges it has been inundated with public-records requests as part of a scheme to generate attorney fees and legal settlements.
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

Open Trials Come to Mexico After Yearslong Justice Reforms

It would have seemed routine in many places: A defendant accused of illegally possessing a gun sat across a gleaming courtroom from the judge who accepted his guilty plea and would pronounce his sentence. For Mexico, though, it was a remarkable change from a century-old judicial system of paper-shuffling court cases in which defendants rarely actually testified before the judge ruling on their fate from within a cramped, bureaucrat's office. As of Saturday, the open, oral trial will be the norm nationwide as part of a sweeping judicial reform.
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

Bugging in Brazil Scandal Exposes Fear of Biggest Betrayal Yet

The tale of Brazil's political crisis is one of betrayals, and the most explosive one may be yet to come.
9 minute read

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