Ill health motivated John Dickinson to leave the federal convention a day early. Before departing, he instructed his friend and Delaware colleague, George Read, to affix his signature to the document. There are, therefore, 39 signatures to the document but only 38 men physically signed. In...
As the Justice Department breathes new life into a federal law that allows local police to keep a lion’s share of the assets impounded from individuals charged with crimes, a study warning of the unintended consequences of a “police for profit” approach could provide additional...
President Trump erroneously linked a rise in recorded crime in the United Kingdom to the “spread of radical Islamic terror” in his latest outburst on Twitter, The Guardian reports. The president tweeted, “Just out report: ‘United Kingdom crime rises 13% annually amid spread of Radical...
Marvel Comics is caught in a dilemma. The company, which went from near-bankruptcy in 1996 to one of the most successful movie studios in the world, first became well known in the 1960s for its depiction of superheroes who had human problems. Spider-Man, the Hulk,...
Children and youth in foster care are 2.5 times more likely to continue a pattern of chronic offending between adolescence and emerging adulthood than those not in care, according to a forthcoming study. The Canadian study, to be published in the November-December issue of the Journal...
Spreadsheets have the potential to be an important part of running a legal business, but not all lawyers have the time to fully understand how to effectively use them. In this episode of Digital Detectives, hosts Sharon Nelson and John Simek talk to Ben Kusmin...
President Trump has personally interviewed at least two potential candidates for U.S. attorney positions in New York, a move that critics say raises questions about whether they can be sufficiently independent from the president, reports Politico. Trump interviewed Geoffrey Berman of the law firm Greenberg...
Briefly: Subscript offers a graphic explainer on Wilson v. Sellers, which asks whether a federal court in a habeas case should “look through” a summary state-court ruling to review the last reasoned state-court decision. At The Federalist, Margot Cleveland suggests that this week’s most significant Supreme Court...
In the New York Times yesterday John Pfaff reflected on a serious problem at the Supreme Court. Increasingly its opinions rely on statements of facts that are later determined not to be true. And Professor Pfaff is also right that the Court as institution is...
The petition of the day is: China Agritech, Inc. v. Resh 17-432 Issue: Whether the rule of American Pipe and Construction Co. v. Utah tolls statutes of limitations to permit a previously absent class member to bring a subsequent class action outside the applicable limitations period. The post Petition...