Sexual assault and harassment have been serious problems in the military for many years. Thousands of women and men have suffered from horrific offenses. They were “wounded” and “betrayed” and little was done to prevent them or punish perpetrators. But that is about to change under the leadership of Lloyd... Read More »
Medical marijuana is legal in Oregon, but that doesn’t mean a grower can grow it, then ship it to states where it isn’t. A man in Oregon, who had been distributing cannabis and cannabis plants to buyers outside Oregon, lost his appeal and he will now be heading to prison... Read More »
The fallout from disputes over Hillary Clinton’s emails continued recently when the Ninth Circuit denied attorney’s fees to the lawyer who successfully used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain redacted information about a search warrant issued by the FBI. A three-judge panel from the United States Court of... Read More »
Nearly a decade after a gay couple first went to court against a florist who refused to decorate their same-sex wedding venue, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to weigh in on the latest chapter in the clash between same-sex rights and religious beliefs. The case began when a man named... Read More »
Reasonable doubt is not “something you do every single day,” and faulty comparisons, plus a trial judge’s insufficient reactions to them, resulted in the Ninth Circuit’s reversal of a drug conviction and a new trial for the defendant. The Ninth Circuit defines reasonable doubt as, “Proof … that leaves you... Read More »
In 2018, California passed a law that requires public corporations with principal offices in the state to have females on their boards of directors. Now, the Ninth Circuit has reversed a district court ruling that a shareholder lacked standing to sue the state over the law. Appellant’s case, based on... Read More »
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has reviewed SB 202, Georgia’s “Election Integrity Act of 2021”, and found that it is far from deserving of a name that requires honesty and strong moral principles. Instead, it filed a complaint against Georgia in federal court after finding the new state law to... Read More »
The Supreme Court has just put a crack in the door that the NCAA had nailed shut to prevent college athletes from sharing in most of the massive profits generated by their athletic teams from ticket sales, alumni donations, television rights and other cash cows. How large that crack will... Read More »
The shaky foundation holding up ex-President Trump’s house of cards about election fraud got a bit closer to collapsing when his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was suspended from practicing law in New York State by the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court. In a harshly worded 33-page decision... Read More »
Neither his health nor charges of faulty paperwork prevented a New York judge from agreeing to extradite disgraced and convicted sex criminal Harvey Weinstein from his New York prison cell back to California for another trial. Justice Kenneth Case of Erie County Court ruled on June 15 that Weinstein, 69,... Read More »
In an attempt to prevent defense attorneys from scoping out information about prospective jurors on the Internet, one California court adopted the general procedure of withholding their names in felony cases. An appeals court ruled that such a general practice could violate a defendant’s constitutional rights and should only be... Read More »
The idiom “timing is everything” maintains that success is directly related to when something happens. In the case of ex-President Trump’s defense in a defamation suit filed by one woman who is accusing him of rape, his timing may well lead to his success. Because Trump’s allegedly defamatory remarks were... Read More »
In his opening remarks to the Senate Armed Services Committee on the President’s 2022 Budget Proposal, the nation’s new Secretary of Defense, Lloyd J. Austin, said that he has already received recommendations from an independent commission to address the horrific problems related to the sexual abuse of both women and... Read More »
When American men and women turn 18, they can all vote. Men, but not women, must also register for the draft within 30 days, even though military service in the U.S. has been completely voluntary since 1973. Over 40 years ago, a group of men challenged the male-only draft registration... Read More »
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is not responsible for the acts of a drunk, off-duty officer who shot his neighbor in the back. Finding no “causal nexus” between the officer’s job and his criminal act, a California Court of Appeal affirmed the lower court’s dismissal of the case, which was... Read More »
