This is another in a long string of cases in which Federal judges express concern about the Government’s seizure of assets at the commencement of criminal proceedings without any judicial finding of probable cause - and yet nothing ever seems to change. The Government simply seizes whatever it can at …

In a decision that, to our recollection, is a first of its kind, the Seventh Circuit has finally put some concrete standards to the vague and virtually unmeasurable standards of the so-called “ends-of-justice continuance” permitted by 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7), and the nearly irrebuttable presumption that such continuances are impregnable …

This is a noteworthy decision dealing with the rights of criminal defendants charged with immigration offenses. Here, the Ninth Circuit held that a criminal defendant may not be denied bail simply because he is likely to be placed in immigration custody and thereby not be made available for trial.

Here, …

Larry Bollinger, an ordained Lutheran minister, moved to Haiti in 2004 with his wife to oversee a large ministry outside of Port Au Prince. The religious center included a school that served hundreds of children. Bollinger, a sex addict, began molesting young girls in 2009. After returning to the United …

In his blistering 68-page ruling in Klayman v. Obama, 957 F.Supp.2d 1, 42 (D.D.C. Dec. 16, 2013) (“Klayman I”) (P&J, 01/20/14), District Judge Richard Leon described the NSA’s once secret, but massive, domestic spying program (which systematically collects the records of nearly every phone call made in America) as “almost …

This is an interesting decision in which the Tenth Circuit wrote at length to attack the legal reasoning behind the district court’s rejection of a plea agreement on the grounds that it contained a waiver of appellate rights - a phenomena that the district court bemoaned had led to a …