Via email I learned this morning that the organization FAMM released the results of a new national poll on various criminal justice questions. The polling explored most fully prison oversight issues and the FAMM email about the poll stressed that
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Blockchain Meets Morrison: Court Rejects Blockchain Class Settlement Because of Concerns About Adequacy of Representation
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York recently rejected a proposed settlement of a securities class action involving purchasers of digital tokens due to concerns about whether the lead plaintiff had adequately represented the class for…
DFS Enters Consent Order with Robinhood Crypto for Deficiencies in AML, Cybersecurity, and Virtual Currency Compliance
On August 1, 2022, Robinhood Crypto LLC (“RHC”) entered into a Consent Order with the New York Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) based on “serious deficiencies” related to anti-money laundering (“AML”), cybersecurity, and virtual currency that were identified in DFS’s…
Tuesday Talk*: Will Next Gen Title IX Regs Undermine Parental Authority?
To no one’s surprise when President Biden appointed Catherine Lhamon as head of the DoE Office of Civil Rights, her raison d’etre swiftly focused on undoing one of the few good things that came out of the past administration, the…
A news article said that the law doesn’t let drunk drivers sleep it off in their car. Is this true?
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In an article published in The Bellingham Herald, columnist Doug Dahl of The Wise Drive…
Disconcerting reports about what transpired during recent Alabama execution
A press report on the July 28 execution of Joe Nathan James in Alabama, reprinted in this post, noted that the “execution began a few minutes after 9 p.m. CDT following a nearly three-hourts have started to fill in…
Notable effort to link fighting climate change to fighting crime
I often preach to my students (and others) that any and every issue of public policy concern can and does become be a crime-and-punishment issue in some way. As but one example, in recent years I have done a few…
Call for Papers: "Drugs and Public Safety: Exploring the Impact of Policy, Policing, and Prosecutorial Reforms"
Truck Accidents Involving Driver Fatigue: The Causes and Consequences
By: Attorney Chris Strohbehn and Paralegal Ruth Campos
Truck accidents are a serious problem on our nation’s roads. Each year, thousands of people are killed in accidents with large trucks and other commercial vehicles, and tens of thousands more suffer…
What’s A Governor To Do?
When Florida’s governor targeted progressive prosecutor Andrew Warren, he used the same rhetoric that’s thrown at others across the nation, blaming them and their decarceral policies for the “catastrophic rise in crime” that isn’t actually happening, and certainly not…