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She Was Sued Over Rent She Didn’t Owe. It Took Seven Court Dates to Prove She Was Right.
In one of the country’s richest cities, the public housing authority aggressively sued its residents, filing complaints for amounts as little as $5. Some residents were sued over the authority’s own mistakes.
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This may be America's first known wrongful arrest involving facial recognition
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed an administrative complaint with Detroit's police department over what the advocacy organization claims is the country's first known wrongful arrest involving facial-recognition technology.
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Controversial psychology tests are often still used in US courts
A third of psychological tests used in US court proceedings aren’t generally accepted by experts in the field, a study has found
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Authorities move L.A. attorney Michael Avenatti to New York ahead of trial
Federal authorities moved Los Angeles attorney Michael Avenatti to New York on Friday ahead of a trial later this month on charges that he tried to extort more than $20 million from sports giant Nike, his attorney said.
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'Making a Murderer' Subject Brendan Dassey Is Denied Clemency
Brenda Dassey, subject of "Making a Murderer," has served 13 years of a life sentence following conviction for aiding in the murder of Teresa Halbach
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I was a juror in Roger Stone’s trial. I am proud of how we came to our decision.
Our legal system affords a fair and open process for determining the truth.
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Case of Australian prisoner sentenced and jailed in secret prompts calls to reconsider law reform
The fluke public discovery of a man imprisoned in secret has prompted a call to revisit reform of secrecy law, almost 10 years since the last major inquiry occurred.
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Cloudflare Explains What It Takes To Slay A Patent Troll
A couple years back we wrote about the patent trolling operation Blackbird Technologies, which was a law firm that pretended it wasn't a law firm, and seemed to focus on buying up patents to shake down companies for cash. It had threatened many...
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J&J Hit With $8 Billion Jury Award Over Antipsychotic Drug
A Philadelphia jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $8 billion in damages to a man who said his use of J&J’s antipsychotic Risperdal caused enlarged breasts.
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An Epidemic of Disbelief - What new research reveals about sexual predators, and why police fail to catch them
“There is no money better spent than the Justice Department spends here, dollar for dollar,” Tim McGinty said. “I don’t think there will ever be another time in history when so many criminals can be arrested so easily, so quickly, so inexpensively, and with such certainty.”
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Manslaughter charge dropped against woman whose foetus died in Alabama shooting
A grand jury had ruled Marshae Jones intentionally caused the caused the shooting death of her foetus by initiating a fight. But after a public outcry, prosecutors have dropped the charge.
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How judges added to the grim toll of opioids
In case after case, U.S. judges sealed evidence about the risks as the body count mounted. And as a Reuters analysis found, it’s only one of many big product-liability cases in which judges have countenanced a lethal and often unlawful secrecy.
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Say Hello to China's New Model for Controlling Hong Kong
Writer Simon Lau Sai Leung says the extradition bill is the nail in the coffin for Hong Kong’s autonomy under "One Country, Two Systems."
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Floridians Are Suing a Cop Fired for Planting Drugs in Their Vehicles
Thanks to the diligence of one assistant state attorney, 119 cases were thrown out and the officer is under state investigation. By Katie Rose Quandt.
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Government fails to release data on deaths in police custody
More than four years after Congress required the Department of Justice to assemble information about those who die in police custody, the agency has yet to implement a system for collecting that.
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‘None of this happened the way you think it did’
For years, the clients of a Colorado funeral home kept their loved ones’ cremated remains. Then the FBI called. By Elena Saavedra Buckley.
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Public anger seethes in Hong Kong ahead of another anti-extradition law rally | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
Hong Kong braces for another mass rally Sunday as public anger seethes following unprecedented clashes between protesters and police over an extradition law, despite a climbdown by the city’s embattled leader in suspending the bill. Organisers are hoping for another mammoth turnout as they vowed to keep pressure on chief executive Carrie Lam.
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Hong Kong extradition bill: Carrie Lam backs down and 'suspends' legislation, sets no new time frame
Hong Kong extradition bill: Carrie Lam backs down and 'suspends' legislation, sets no new time frame
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It looked like a simple domestic murder
Then police learned about the alien reptile cult. By Kyle Swenson.
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Trump’s Judge Whisperer Promised to Take Our Laws Back to the 1930s
Constitutional law was very different in the 1930s from what it is today. In a word, it sucked.
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