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Can Presidential Pardons Subvert New York Law? When Trump pardoned Scooter Libby, was he sending a message to his friends that they should keep their mouths shut and the will be beneficiaries as well? Before Eric Schneiderman resigned, he dug into the.

Earlier this month the SEC, in the first case of its kind against a municipality, ordered the City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to cease and desist from violating the anti-fraud provisions of the federal securities laws. While the circumstances surrounding this order are.

On Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court denied Dr. Ali Shaygan’s petition for review of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit’s reversal of the trial court’s award of attorneys’ fees to Dr. Shaygan based upon misconduct by Federal prosecutors.

A 66-year-old man in Nevada reportedly drove his vehicle to the grocery store despite feeling as though he had a seizure coming on. The man had a seizure while he was driving and he caused a motor vehicle accident that killed two.

Grits For Breakfast ran a post this weekend on the way the criminalization of gambling in Texas functions as "an example of irrationally punitive criminal justice policies actually making us less safe." Scott writes that Houston has between 300 and 400 illegal.

Suppose you could design an ideal system for drug regulation, one that would involve the use of regulated markets to control drugs rather than relying primarily on the criminal justice system. Under such a system, powerful recreational drugs, like heroin and methamphetamine,.

Tokyo police are ready to deploy drone squads, which are developed to find and – if required – seize nuisance drones that are flown by public citizens. This police unit is expected to patrol key buildings in the city, including the office.

Around 1230 burglaries were reported in Vegas in November and this figure does not include automobile break-ins. On an average this accounts to 41 reports in a day. Burglary differs from robbery and one should not be confused with the other, according.

On February 6, 2018, America's State Department released more of Hillary Clinton's emails. The latest dump, the largest batch yet released, brings the total to almost 1,000. Containing 328 documents determined to have classified information, the emails were found to be classified.

As noted at White Collar Criminal Prof Blog and The Justice Fellowship, the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security held a hearing last week on "Over-criminalization of Conduct and Over-federalization of Criminal Law." Organizations which addressed the.