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DOJ Signals New Strategy For ‘Environmental Justice’

The Crime Report

To the extent a corporate actor violates either civil or criminal law in a manner that implicates environmental justice or the climate crisis, corporations should be aware that my division is paying particular attention to these issues.”.

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Making Crypto Available to Everyone

InHouseOps

27 years ago, I was working as a trial attorney for a law firm in Alabama when I was recruited by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Since that time, I’ve parlayed my early litigation and investigation experience into non-traditional legal jobs. Tom Davis: I’ve been a licensed attorney for over 27 years. That’s how I moved out west.

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‘Invisibility’ of Prosecutor Misconduct Erodes Trust: PA Report

The Crime Report

Researchers at the Quattrone Center, based at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, created what they said was a unique dataset of 4,644 opinions in which allegations of misconduct were raised in the more than 1.5 million judicial opinions published between 2000 and 2016 by federal and state courts in Pennsylvania.

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Third-party arbitration funding – Comparative analysis and Indian Perspective

LexForti

Third-party funding is rather a new concept and was adapted by many legislations only recently due to the illegality of the doctrines of maintenance and champerty in common-law jurisdictions in the past. The concept of TPF, though accepted explicitly by the law of the land, has two sides to it similar to the way of a coin. Balaji [17].

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State Hid Criminal Referrals of Other Chemists, Supervisors at Hinton Drug Lab for Years

The Crime Report

The reported conduct includes lying to police, misidentifying drug samples or certifying substances as illegal under state law—including a piece of a nut—when they were not drugs. there has been a violation of state criminal law by Ms. That citation refers to the state’s obstruction of justice law. history.

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

SCOTUSBlog

He explained that last year’s decision on the CFPB director, Seila Law v. In Seila Law , the court struck down restrictions that said the CFPB director can be removed only for “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance while in office.” Consumer Financial Protection Bureau , “is all but dispositive” in this case.

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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. The result is a horn of plenty for litigators. Some 1,800 ate the catered meal.

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