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‘Invisibility’ of Prosecutor Misconduct Erodes Trust: PA Report

The Crime Report

million judicial opinions published between 2000 and 2016 by federal and state courts in Pennsylvania. Courts failed to address 1,774 of those claims. They identified 7,207 separate claims of prosecutorial misconduct over that 17-year period. In the remaining 5,432, misconduct was found in just 204 cases?or or less than 4 percent.

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Despite constitutional violation, court rejects broad relief for shareholders of mortgage giants

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday had mostly bad news for shareholders of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in their lawsuit seeking to unwind a 2012 agreement that required the companies to transfer profits to the federal government. Three shareholders went to court to challenge the 2012 amendment.

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TURKEY TORTS (2020)

JonathanTurley

In 2020, the cancelation of parades and the reduction of travel has led to a very different legal profile of holiday mishaps and malfeasance. The litigation over last year’s lettuce recall has only just started due to the statute of limitations. Some things are happily left out of the courts.

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