The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week issued an opinion holding that Customs agents may seize electronic storage devices, including computers, hard drives, USB sticks, smart phones and digital cameras carried at the U.S. border and search the devices either at the port of entry or at an off-site forensic laboratory under the border […]
READ MOREInternet Sex Crimes
Internet sex crimes include the possession of child pornography, solicitation of a minor, providing online of sending emails or texts of nude photos via a mobile device. New York considers Internet sex crimes serious. You could be charged with a first, second or three degree felony depending on the nature of the sex crimes such as […]
READ MORECardinal Egan Under Fire
Secret court documents reveal that New York Cardinal Edward Egan, while serving as bishop of the Bridgeport Roman Catholic Diocese, allowed several priests facing multiple accusations of sexual abuse to continue working for years. Egan failed to investigate aggressively some abuse allegations, did not refer complaints to criminal authorities and, during closed testimony in 1999, […]
READ MOREThe Forbidden Zone The Nature and Prevalence of Clergy Sexual Abuse
A Long Island foster care house of horrors is in the spotlight now. An accused predator took in boys, over the course of two decades, and subjected many of them to abuse. The spotlight has shone elsewhere — many elsewheres. Maybe nowhere is the tsunami felt more than when exploitation is discovered within the religious […]
READ MOREAn 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 MOREDOMINIQUE STRAUSS-KAHN FACES FURTHER CLAIM OF SEXUAL ASSAULT
Socialist party official says her daughter was left traumatised after alleged attack by Strauss-Kahn in 2002 By this time next year, Dominique Strauss-Kahn might well have been president of France. The 62-year-old was by far the most popular choice to be the Socialist presidential candidate, and he was the only contender seen as capable of […]
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