In a little blow for sanity, the en banc Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday overturned the decision in Redding v. Safford United School District that had previously concluded there was no Fourth Amendment violation when school officials strip searched a 13-year-old middle school student who was believed to have been carrying ibuprophen. The […]
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An Update on Everyone’s Favorite Cravath Alum
It’s too bad we already picked a Lawsuit of the Day. This latest litigation — brought by James Colliton, the ex-Cravath tax lawyer who, in the words of theAP, “paid a woman so he could have sex with her two underage daughters” — is pretty rich. Once again from the AP: A disbarred Manhattan lawyer […]
READ MOREMan sentenced to false statements in a loan application
Steven F. Shaw, 49, a New York resident, was sentenced in United States District Court in Albany, New York, to 36 months in prison, to be followed by supervised release for 5 years, and to pay restitution in the total amount of ,653,530, upon his conviction of making false statements in a loan application, tax evasion, and […]
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