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 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!
The Secret Garden: Espy and Executive Privilege
Privileges should be narrowly construed; exceptions to the demand for every man’s evidence are not lightly created nor expansively construed, for they are in derogation of the search for truth. Espy a/k/a In Re Sealed Case, 121 F. 3d 729 (USCA DC 1997) In 1994, allegations of corruption swirled around the Secretary of the US Department of […]
June 1, 2018
Unintended Consequences of Pharma-Created Opioid Crisis: He hugged her for a long moment, outside the bathroom with the missing door, head full of anxiety. He knew what awaited him on the other side of the drive. Another impossibly difficult conversation with his provider, who, scared by the rising number of opioid prescribers facing criminal prosecution, […]
May 31, 2018
Are we losing the right to oral argument on appeal in Federal Court?
May 29, 2018
The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in a Law Practice