News

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Fischer v. United States on April 16, 2024, regarding the criminal law used by the DOJ to prosecute those who breached the Capital on January 6, 2021. The law…

Practice tip: When briefing, do not cite cases that don't exist (even if cleverly named Smith and Jones) and, for cases that do exist, do not misrepresent their facts and holdings. If you do, you might face a difficult oral argument…

Washington man runs an organization that purports to help undocumented adult immigrants become U.S. citizens through adult adoption. He's convicted and sentenced to 240 months for unlawfully "encouraging or inducing an alien to come to, enter, or reside unlawfully in the United States for…

Former Assistant Federal Public Defender, (AFPD), Tamara Giwa, has been selected to serve as the new Executive Director for the Federal Defenders of New York.Notably, Giwa…

Federal public defenders would avoid the most dire budget scenarios under the fiscal 2024 funding package unveiled Thursday, with Congress set to spend tens of millions of dollars more than previous…

Prison: If you tested positive for a soy allergy, we'd stop feeding you soy, but we don't think you have a real allergy and we're not buying your "my religion prohibits me from eating foods that make my stomach hurt" schtick. Fourth…

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey issued sweeping pardons forgiving possession of marijuana convictions, following the directive of President Joe Biden, who urged state executives to follow his lead in pardoning low-level marijuana offenses.

It would apply to any adult convictions in…

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey issued sweeping pardons forgiving possession of marijuana convictions, following the directive of President Joe Biden, who urged state executives to follow his lead in…

Federal procurement law includes contracting preferences for service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs). That creates an incentive for people to game the procurement system by, for example, nominally having service-disabled veterans as the owners of a company, while actually…

Late Tuesday evening, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order that temporarily halts the state of Texas’s plans to arrest migrants along the Texas-Mexico border. See Associated…