The U.S. Department of Homeland Security secretly collected "a massive trove of ordinary Americans' financial records" without a warrant, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said Tuesday in a letter to the agency's inspector general.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to deny a petition challenging the termination of a highly "irregular," $30 million contract to develop a sweeping detection system for bioterror threats.
Never before has an economy with the size and global impact of Russia been subject to the types of forceful sanctions and export controls that several countries invoked in response to the invasion of Ukraine, and now trade attorneys are bracing for the aftershock as they hustle to navigate challenges that the evolving measures present.
Criminal courts often use juror questionnaires to screen prospective jurors for any personal history of sexual abuse before seating them on juries for cases involving sex crimes but as the Ghislaine Maxwell case spotlights, the screening process doesn’t always work, and experts tell Law360 it is causing problems for jurors, attorneys and courts.
An attorney fired from Ropes & Gray LLP for failing the bar exam told a New York federal judge Tuesday that sovereign immunity should not stand in the way of her disability suit against the state agency that administers the test.