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by Caleb Kruckenberg-
Sep 27, 2016 (Comments: )
September, 27, 2016 (Fault Lines) – Last week was both very good and very bad for Ahilan Arulanantham for essentially the same reason. On Wednesday, he lost, as lead counsel, a case in the Ninth Circuit...
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by Greg Prickett-
Sep 27, 2016 (Comments: )
September 27, 2016 (Fault Lines) – On October 16, 2015, almost a year ago, Ricky Ball, a black man, jumped out of a car being stopped by Columbus police officers. Ball ran, was tasered, ran some...
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by Josh Kendrick-
Sep 27, 2016 (Comments: )
September 27, 2016 (Fault Lines) – Honolulu criminal defense attorney Richard Holcomb filed a petition last week with the Hawaii Supreme Court asking the Court to keep prosecutors from cheating. His complaint is pretty routine. When...
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by Andrew King-
Sep 27, 2016 (Comments: )
September 27, 2016 (Fault Lines) – As a young lawyer, I was told an apocryphal story about hearsay. In all likelihood there is some version of the story told by lawyers everywhere. It went something like...
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by Thomas Johnson-
Sep 26, 2016 (Comments: )
September 26, 2016 (Fault Lines) — This month, the Alameda County, California Sheriff’s Department hosted the annual trade show and training marathon known as Urban Shield. Even though there was a virtual reporting blackout of the...
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by JoAnne Musick-
Sep 26, 2016 (Comments: )
September 26, 2016 (Fault Lines) — In the vein of “this can’t be true, can it?” the Saginaw County Sheriff apparently has a habit of shopping the neighborhood, and even surrounding counties, for items his department...
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by Mario Machado-
Sep 26, 2016 (Comments: )
September 26, 2016 (Fault Lines) — If the allegations regarding Terrill Thomas contained in the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel reflect what actually happened to Thomas in a county jail, it’s enough to shake the foundations of the...
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by Noel Erinjeri-
Sep 26, 2016 (Comments: )
September 26, 2016 (Fault Lines) — In Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, two police officers found a way to get around one of those annoying loopholes that prevent them from locking up people who are guilty, guilty, GUILTY!!!...
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by Scott Greenfield-
Sep 26, 2016 (Comments: )
September 26, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Ed. Note: Following the release of the White House report on forensic science, and Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s contention that there is no junk science in the courtroom, the question...
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by Chris Seaton-
Sep 26, 2016 (Comments: )
September 26, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Ed. Note: Following the release of the White House report on forensic science, and Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s contention that there is no junk science in the courtroom, the question...
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by Ana Sofia Walsh-
Sep 23, 2016 (Comments: )
September 23, 2016 (IP Flow) – The third installment in the Apple vs VirnetX patent debacle is set to begin on Monday in a Texas courtroom. The patent litigation saga began in 2012 where a court...
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by Chris Seaton-
Sep 23, 2016 (Comments: )
September 23, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Kids these days just don’t know how to poison someone properly. Back in the days of Socrates (the patron saint of every decent law school professor), one used hemlock to...
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by Chris Seaton-
Sep 23, 2016 (Comments: )
September 23, 2016 (Fault Lines) — It’s officially fall, it’s the (almost) weekend, and that means it’s time for another edition of the Fault Lines Friday Fail. Our contributors worked tirelessly this week to bring you...
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by Greg Prickett-
Sep 23, 2016 (Comments: )
September 23, 2016 (Fault Lines) – This is a recurring theme among police, and for that matter, many judges: the feeling that officer safety comes first, before the rights of anyone else. So I was looking...
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by David Meyer Lindenberg-
Sep 23, 2016 (Comments: )
September 23, 2016 (Fault Lines) – I was working through an old LSAT when I found the following question: When a nation is on the brink of financial crisis, its government does not violate free-market principles...
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by Matt Brown-
Sep 23, 2016 (Comments: )
September 23, 2016 (Fault Lines) — At 9:00 a.m., the news reported on what seemed like a pretty tense hostage situation in Jackson, Mississippi: Jackson police are on the scene of a hostage situation on the...
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by Andrew Fleischman-
Sep 23, 2016 (Comments: )
September 23, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Every appellate lawyer has experienced it. You raise a strong claim that a piece of evidence should have been suppressed, supported by mountains of case-law. The facts are good. The State’s...
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by Josh Kendrick-
Sep 23, 2016 (Comments: )
September 23, 2016 (Fault Lines) – Protest is at the heart of American freedom. From the time Samuel Adams and company dumped all that British tea into Boston Harbor, an undercurrent of violence flows below dissatisfaction...
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by Andrew King-
Sep 23, 2016 (Comments: )
September 23, 2016 (Mimesis Law) – Before science blossomed, any idea about the universe and how it works was just as good as any other. So long as you could reason coherently, the sun could be...
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by Tara Singh-
Sep 22, 2016 (Comments: )
September 22, 2016 (Fault Lines) — A dispute between a Las Vegas judge and a deputy public defender boiled over on Tuesday when the attorney refused to remove a Black Lives Matter lapel pin from her...
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