CRS Report Number 41221, July 12, 2010, Posted July 23, 2010. AUTHORS: Michael John Garcia, Kate M. Manuel, Larry M. Eig SUMMARY (From Official Report) On April 23, 2010, Arizona enacted S.B. 1070, which is designed to discourage and deter the entry or presence of aliens who lack lawful status…
More than a dozen Washington Post journalists spent two years developing Top Secret America, a multimedia presentation put together by compiling hundreds of thousands of public records of government organizations and private sector companies. From these records, the Washington Post identified a web of these organizations, both government and private,…
Many thanks to Jonathan Stock, recently retired as Supervising Law Librarian at the Connecticut Judicial Branch Law Library at Stamford, for writing this fine, thought provoking article. It has been published in the July 2010 issue of AALL Spectrum and we have linked to the Spectrum article with Jonathan’s permission.…
Supreme Court Case Summaries: Professor Rory Little’s Perspective A Service from the ABA Criminal Justice Section, http://www.abanet.org/crimjust These summaries are written by Professor Rory K. Little (littler@uchastings.edu), U.C. Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, who has long presented “Annual Review of the Supreme Court’s Term” program at the ABA’s…
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., has announced the District Attorney’s Office’s (DANY) new policy on the prosecution of businesses and organizations. Below are links to the DANY Press Release announcing the new policy and the May 27, 2010 DANY memorandum which contains the actual policy http://www.manhattanda.org/whatsnew/press/2010-06-01d.shtml Press Release…
A Service from the ABA Criminal Justice Section (CJS), http://www.abanet.org/crimjust* United States Supreme Court Decisions: Decided: June 24, 2010 1)Black v. United States No. 08-076 2)Skilling v. United States 3)Magwood v. Patterson Black v. United States No. 08-076 In a 9-0 decision today, the Supreme Court held that a criminal…
Apparently prosecutors in Queens County New York think so. This month Queens prosecutors have charged two women with stealing more than $30,000 from three elderly men they had befriended separately. The women were charged with grand larceny as a hate crime. This strategy of treating some hate crimes as larcenous…
Holder (Attorney General) v. Humanitarian Law Project et. al. 08-1498 A Service from the ABA Criminal Justice Section, http://www.abanet.org/crimjust This summary has been created by Professor Rory K. Little (littler@uchastings.edu), U.C. Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, who has long presented “Annual Review of the Supreme Court’s Term” program…
Retired New Jersey Appellate Division Judge Geoffrey Gaulkin released his report in State v. Henderson today June 21, 2010. . The New Jersey Supreme Court appointed judge Gaulkin in May 2009 to serve as special master and to hold hearings and issue a report “to test the validity of our…
NOTE: This posting includes Professor Little’s perspective on City of Ontario v. Quon, the cfase whch includes interesting discussion about whether public employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy regarding text messages went on government owned equipment during working hours. A Service from the ABA Criminal Justice Section, http://www.abanet.org/crimjust This…