The Crime Report
MARCH 21, 2022
While Mayor Eric Adams vowed during his election campaign to back plans to close Rikers Island’s infamous jail complex and replace it with four smaller, more humane lockups, that promise has come to conflict with his other promise to crack down on New York City’s rising crime rates by improving overall public safety, reports the New York Times.
Intelligize Blog
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Offering up a laundry list of alleged malfeasance, a piece in The New York Times published in 2015 snarked that settlements by big Wall Street banks had “underscored their astonishing ability” to persuade government officials to allow them to “escape without any real penalty for wrongdoing.”
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JURIST
FEBRUARY 18, 2023
Over the last three weeks, Adani Group, a multinational conglomerate, has been the subject of a furor both in the stock market and the Indian Parliament over the findings of the New York-based investor research firm Hindenburg Research.
The Crime Report
DECEMBER 20, 2021
New York State initiated this practice in 2017, and the requirement was added to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure in 2020. The New York State Legislature has created a commission aimed at monitoring and identifying prosecutor misbehavior. Some 23 states have adopted these verbatim or with some modifications.
The Crime Report
AUGUST 5, 2022
Warren, the elected state attorney of Hillsborough County and the top prosecutor in Tampa, accusing him of incompetence and neglect of duty for vowing not to prosecute those who seek or provide abortions, reports the New York Times.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
The district court concluded that, consistent with the contractual choice-of-law provision, New York law governed and barred Raiders’ Pennsylvania-law-based counterclaims. The insurer then filed an action for declaratory judgment in federal district court in Pennsylvania to determine whether the policy was indeed void.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
In 2020, the cancelation of parades and the reduction of travel has led to a very different legal profile of holiday mishaps and malfeasance. A recent survey of New York doctors found that 60 percent saw an increase in ER visits for cooking wounds and turkey carving accidents. Some 1,800 ate the catered meal.
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