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Legal Records Storage for Your Firm

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For example, a routine real estate closing will have less documentation than a criminal felony case. Court cases progress through four stages: initiation, active status, disposition, and post-disposition. Some courts will microfilm records as a safety precaution should something happen to the original hard-copy record.

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With The Onion’s support, satirist asks court to revive lawsuit against police who arrested him

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether those officers are entitled to qualified immunity. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.

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New Jersey Puts ‘Fair Chance Housing’ on the National Agenda

The Crime Report

Civil actions may be brought to remedy violations for treble the amount of the application fee, plus court costs and attorney fees. See the Colorado profile for more details. Housing providers also may not require an applicant to submit to a drug or alcohol test, or request consent to obtain information from a drug treatment facility.

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A Criminologist Assesses the ‘Racketeer-in-Chief’

The Crime Report

From his winter residence in Palm Beach, FL and his Mar-a-Lago golf club and catering facility, the Donald still holds court and has absolute power over the Republican party. Several weeks after losing the 2020 election, on Jan.6, Should the U.S. Congress fail to pass the John R.

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Alvin Bragg has his Trump trial, All he Needs Now is a Crime

JonathanTurley

It was the criminal theory itself that seemed crafted around the standard for obscenity famously described by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in the case of Jacobellis v. While the over and under valuing of assets is common in the real estate area, James singled out Trump. Ohio , 378 U.S.

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Can Trump Escape Accountability?  

The Crime Report

With the evidence already revealed by the hearings, the AG has no other choice than to prosecute Trump and his allies for a range of assorted felonies. As a real estate tycoon, entrepreneur, entertainer, and politician, Donald Trump has boasted that to the best of his ability he has always “taken advantage of the laws.