The extensive testimony of two former Trump lawyers to a federal grand jury about last year’s Capitol riot has been likened to a political earthquake, according to one prominent pundit. Pat Cipollone and Patrick Philbin, lawyers who served in the Office of White House Counsel during the latter years of the Trump administration, tested before […]
Continue ReadingA FedEx driver has been charged with murder after police say he kidnapped a 7-year-old girl in northern Texas while making a delivery to her home. Tanner Lynn Horner, 31, was arrested Friday on charges of capital murder and aggravated kidnapping in the death of Athena Strand, Wise County Sheriff Lane Akin said at a […]
Continue ReadingHunter Biden’s past employer, law firm Boies Schiller Flexner, received $10 million in forgiven pandemic loans from the federal government — while donating nearly $1 million to Democratic candidates, an independent investigation has found. Of 300 top law firms investigated by transparency nonprofit Open the Books, Boies took the single-biggest loan, $10.14 million, from the […]
Continue ReadingCongress must reauthorize the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) before the end of this session, with long-awaited language to acknowledge and protect children’s legal rights. I was only 18 months old when I was removed from my parents and placed in foster care. Like many of the roughly 250,000 children in America who […]
Continue ReadingIn this post, Sophie Campbell, an Associate in the litigation team at CMS, previews the decision awaited from the Supreme Court in Sara & Hossein Asset Holdings Ltd v Blacks Outdoor Retail Ltd. background Blacks Outdoor Retail Ltd (“B”) was the tenant of commercial premises in Liverpool. B had leased the premises since 2012 and […]
Continue ReadingFEMALE CHAIR IMPROVE DEPARTMENTS’ GENDER DIVERSITY AND EQUITY. It’s common advice: to increase faculty gender diversity, increase the gender diversity of institutional leaders. But what about department chairs, a kind of middle-management position — do they make a difference? And beyond gender diversity, does having a female chair help improve the success of female academics? […]
Continue ReadingFormer President Donald Trump’s namesake real estate company “cultivated a culture of fraud and deception,” a prosecutor claimed Thursday during closing statements in the criminal tax fraud trial of the Trump Organization. Two entities of the Trump Organization — the Trump Corporation and the Trump Payroll Corporation — are on trial for paying the personal […]
Continue ReadingNEW YORK – The criminal tax fraud trial of two companies in former President Donald Trump’s business empire neared a close Thursday after defense lawyers attacked Allen Weisselberg, Trump’s former top financial lieutenant, and a prosecutor told the jury the firms “cultivated a culture of fraud and deception.” In clashing closing arguments, the two sides […]
Continue ReadingPolice say Idaho students may not have been targeted. Law enforcement officials investigating the murders of four University of Idaho students appeared to walk back their claim that one or more of the victims were “targeted,” saying late Wednesday evening that they did not know if that was the case. MOSCOW, Idaho – The unidentified […]
Continue ReadingAgency Delegation to External Parties: An Unexplored Challenge Benjamin Lehman The Supreme Court recently declined to grant cert in Texas v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, a case from the 5thth Circuit. However, the three justices said the decision was driven by threshold issues of mootness and statute of limitations, but they would grant a review […]
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