Here the Court reversed, on First Amendmernt grounds, a District Court order that denied the public access to compliance reports about progress made on remediating unconstitutional conditions of confinement at two Erie County prisons.
In the Court’s words, this was a case “about public access to judicial documents”; but, in ...
This decision, written before the choke-hold arrest and subsequent death of Eric Garner in Staten Island, NY, and before the broad-daylight, six-bullet shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, constitutes an important and timely affirmation of the right of citizens to record the activities of police officers conducting their official ...
Paul Musgrave, a certified public accountant, became involved in a tire-recycling venture known as Dayton International Tire Recycling with a man named Raymond Goldberg, who owned an Australian company called Rubber Solutions. Musgrave owned 81% of Dayton International; and Goldberg owned the remaining 19% through a foreign shell corporation. Unbeknownst ...
The terrifying events in Ferguson, MO that have been playing out on national television for the past two weeks are emblematic of a new norm for local police forces - namely the militarization of the local cops who are now armed to the teeth with modern day weapons designed only ...
In this white collar sentencing case, a divided panel from the Eleventh Circuit vacated, as substantively unreasonable, a sentence of probation (with a special condition of six to twelve months of home confinement) on a 67-year-old business owner who—over a period of four years—doled out over $600,000 in bribes to ...
Law enforcement officials steadfastly deny that there is any sort of special break given to its personnel, either in the form of reduced charges or a sentencing discount, when any of its officers are charged with or convicted of crimes committed during the performance of their duties. But the fact ...
