At the Third Circuit, a late prisoner's lawsuit has placed a spotlight on Eighth Amendment concerns with placing mentally ill prisoners in solitary confinement.
A team of Hogan Lovells attorneys recently helped secure a deal that stopped a group of Hawaii residents from being priced out of their homes due to a developer's attempt to opt out of an affordable housing agreement decades early.
New York's Rikers Island jail complex has struggled with violence, dysfunction and disorder. Longtime prison reformer and attorney Zachary Katznelson spoke with Law360 about how the pandemic made the complex more dangerous for inmates and staff and why some advocates want a federal receiver to implement reforms.
New York Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, who said Monday she plans to resign at the end of August, is currently under investigation by the state judicial ethics watchdog, according to documents obtained by Law360 and a person familiar with the matter.
When one of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP's Atlanta-based attorneys entered the United States in 1988 as a 9-year-old refugee from Soviet-era Ukraine, she couldn't have imagined she'd end up helping her fellow countrymen flee a Russian invasion 34 years later.