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Showing posts with label criminal justice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label criminal justice. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Taxpayers help to fatten Big Law in prosecution that Chinese community chalks up to racial profiling

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Rawpixel CC0 The American trend to embrace attorney fee-shifting is a cash cow for the corporate defense bar. A pending case speaks to the ...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Police reform shines light on disciplinary records

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CC0 Pixabay via picryl A favorable reform to follow the police protest movement of recent years, stemming in particular from the killing of...
Friday, August 26, 2022

McMahon debates incumbent insider in DA race

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[UPDATE, Sept. 7, 2022.] With 90% reporting, the N.Y. Times lists Quinn prevailing with 65% of the vote to McMahon's 35%. This result i...
Friday, July 22, 2022

Court denies police immunity under state tort claims act in death of intoxicated man in protective custody

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Michael Coghlan CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons In a lawsuit over the death of an intoxicated man in police protective custody, the defe...
Saturday, July 16, 2022

'Civil death,' denial of tort claims, violates prisoners' right of access to courts, R.I. high court holds

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N.C. State Archives public domain photo via Wikimedia Commons The Rhode Island Supreme Court in March struck down the state "civil dea...
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Shannon McMahon for Bristol County, Mass., DA

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[UPDATE, Sept. 7, 2022.] With 90% reporting, the N.Y. Times lists Quinn prevailing with 65% of the vote to McMahon's 35%. This result is...
Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Student comment calls on police unions to do their part for accountability reform, revelation of truth

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Michelle M.K. Hatfield , an alum of my Torts I-II classes, has published a comment, Can Police Unions Help Change American Policing?    This...
Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Court sentences 'Hotel Rwanda' activist to 25 years; U.S. plaintiffs serve Greek airline in civil action

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Paul Rusesabagina ( NDLA : Creator: Erik Mårtensson/TT | Credit: TT Nyhetsbyrån CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 ) Real-life "Hotel Rwanda" protago...
Thursday, October 8, 2020

Texas indictment surfaces problem of elected prosecutors; First Amendment protects Netflix film

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Actor, model, and District Attorney Lucas Babin (Steve Stewart CC BY 4.0 ) A Tyler County, Texas, grand jury has indicted Netflix for lewd ...
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Monday, September 21, 2020

Man may sue police in tort, civil rights for violent beating, despite his conviction for resisting arrest

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" Defund the police " has been a rallying cry in recent protests. ( Photo at BLM encampment, New York City, June 26, 2020, by Fel...