June 25, 2018
A trio of articles on lawyers organizing to battle family separation and “tender age detention centers” in America: Lawyer Moms of America LGG: Lawyers for Good Government ABA Asylum Project
June 22, 2018
Big New Supreme Court Privacy Case on Warrants and Cellphones: Updating Riley
June 21, 2018
Like the travel ban, lawyers and judges are going to repair the damage done by this Administration’s “executive orders” on immigration.
June 20, 2018
“Tender Age Detention Center” Fatalities Caused By Lack of Attention to Medical Needs. Also, see my weekly blog on America’s separation of children from their parents in the City of Motherless Children.
City of Motherless Children
“It was like fractured pieces trying to converge — their experience today, my history — being in this place where I had been as a child,” Ina said. I had the good fortune of growing up in South Florida in the seventies, a prehistoric era of AOR radio before the internet – when video games […]
June 18, 2018
#QualityFraud: Oxy Manufacturer Sued (Again)
June 15, 2018
#QualityFraud: Theranos Founder and CEO Charged With Massive Fraud
June 14, 2018
“First reports of a flag day celebration came out of Hartford, Connecticut, in the 1860s. Around that time, schools all over the country were holding Flag Day celebrations in the hopes of making immigrant children feel more connected to the country. ” Newsweek Happy Flag Day!
Engle Fallout
In 2006, the Florida Supreme Court decertified the class action of smokers against the tobacco industry, ruling that cases could be tried individually but laying down certain rules by which those cases would be tried. Engle v. Liggett Group, Inc., 945 S0. 2d 1246 (Fla. 2006). Decertification can happen when the Court determines that the […]
June 12, 2018
Three helpful sources on dealing with grief and death: Children & Grief: How to talk to them about death The basics of end of life (palliative) care Exercise & Grief: ways to help yourself