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The Food and Drug Administration’s new chief doesn’t want to repeat the mistakes made when he was at the agency in the 2000s and the government failed to regulate opioids more, reports USA Today. “We didn’t get ahead of it. Nobody got ahead of it,”...

Over the past decade, Long Island’s blacks, Hispanics and other minorities were far more likely than whites to be arrested and wind up behind bars for crimes that experts say are the suburban equivalent of “stop and frisk” charges, Newsday reports. Nonwhites on Long Island...

E-discovery has played a key role in litigation for nearly two decades. During that time, both the industry and the technology behind it have evolved, and professionals have gained a better understanding of common terms and procedures. Despite being a well-established industry, however, many corporations...

The neatly landscaped grounds of the David Wade Corrections Center near Homer, La., contain ornamental gardens and even a koi pond.
In a state which has been notorious for its high rate of incarceration, and for allegations of systematic prisoner abuse, the warden and staff at...

Catalonia has entered a critical phase in its attempt to secede from Spain, a process initiated by the regional government and parliament back in 2013. Secession in a Western European country in the 21st century necessarily draws attention. People all over the world feel that...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is escalating the Trump administration’s drive to eradicate the violent gang MS-13 by designating the group as a target for federal interagency task forces typically focused on drug trafficking and money laundering, Politico reports. Sessions is putting the El Salvador-based gang...

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At The World and Everything In It (podcast), Mary Reichard discusses the oral arguments in Class v. United States, which asks whether a guilty plea waives a defendant’s right to appeal the constitutionality of the law of conviction, and Jesner v. Arab Bank, in which...

The petition of the day is:
American Triumph, LLC v. Tabingo
17-449
Issue: Whether punitive damages may be awarded to a Jones Act seaman in a personal injury suit alleging a breach of the general maritime duty to provide a seaworthy vessel.
The post Petition of the day appeared...

In its 2011 decision in Harrington v. Richter, the Supreme Court held that even a summary ruling by a state court can count as an adjudication “on the merits” to which federal habeas courts must defer under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of...