Three former staff members of a mental hospital in Virginia were arrested and charged Thursday with second-degree murder in connection with the death of a man who was brought to the institution from jail earlier this month. According to Dinwiddie County Commonwealth Attorney Ann Cabell Baskervill, Irvo Otieno, 28, passed away on March 6 while [...]
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The Derek Chauvin Trial as a Landmark in the American History of Racial Bias
George Floyd: I Can’t Breathe Jury: Guilty, Guilty, Guilty Biden: We Can’t Stop Here Outside the Hennepin County courthouse, Minnesota, Floyd family attorney Justin Miller said: What is justice when you lose a loved one? When you don’t have your father or your brother or your uncle anymore? I don’t really think there is justice. [...]
The murder trial of Derek Chauvin—the white former Minneapolis police officer accused of killing George Floyd—began on Monday, 10 months following Floyd’s death and the ensuing protests it sparked across the nation. In May, Chauvin, along with two other police officers, arrested Floyd for allegedly using a counterfeit bill in Minneapolis, Minnesota. During the arrest, [...]
Cuomo COVID-19 Hypocrisy: A New Level In Neanderthal Thinking
Governor Cuomo is in hot water on three fronts: the COVID-19 limitation of liability for nursing homes order he did, the undercounting/reporting of nursing home deaths, and the sexual harassment in the workplace and otherwise. This note will focus on the hypocrisy with respect to the first of these: the COVID-19 limitation of liability for [...]
Georgia Supreme Court rules against lifetime electronic monitors for sex offenders
The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday unanimously struck down a law that required sexually dangerous predators to wear and pay for GPS monitoring devices “for the remainder of natural .” This issue was brought before the court by Joseph Park, who “was convicted of child molestation and nine counts of sexual exploitation of a minor” [...]
Georgia top court bars doctors from suing state over abortion law
The Supreme Court of Georgia issued a landmark ruling Monday, holding that the state is immune from litigation unless it consents to being sued, rejecting a challenge to a 20-week abortion ban. Justice Blackwell ...
Separated But Equal: The Third Circuit, the Press and Polling Places
Sandy Davidson, University of Missouri School of Law
Subodh Chandra : "The consent order we won Thursday against Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell won back the right to vote for many otherwise eligible Ohioans--including college students,...
