Michigan County Prosecutors Struggle To Process Sex Crime Warrant Backlog

Sex crime warrants have started to stack up in Wayne County, Michigan, leaving more than 200 victims of alleged sex crimes waiting as their cases stall in the prosecutor’s office, Ross Jones reports for WXYZ Detroit’s 7 Action News. As of a last count in May 2023, 283 sex crime crime warrants had been pending at the prosecutor’s office for at least six months with at least four dating back to 2020.

Johanna Kononen, the director of law and policy … Read the rest

Dallas County Juvenile Lockup Accused of Long Periods of Isolation, Neglect

Parents with children held at the Henry Wade Juvenile Justice Center in Dallas, Texas, have alleged that their children are being neglected by staff. For The Dallas Morning News, reporter Josephine Peterson interviewed multiple families about their experiences with the center. A report released in March 2023 by Evident Change (formerly the National Council on Crime & Delinquency and the Children’s Research Center) found that Dallas County was incarcerating minors for months longer than national recommendations and issuing harsher judgements … Read the rest

Justices rule Minnesota county violated takings clause

Justices rule Minnesota county violated takings clause

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In 2016, a Minnesota county sold 94-year-old Geraldine Tyler’s condo at auction after she failed to pay her property taxes for several years. The sale yielded $ 40,000; Hennepin County kept not only the $ 15,000 in taxes, penalties, and costs that Tyler owed it, but also the $ 25,000 that was left over. The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the county’s actions violated the Fifth Amendment’s takings clause, which bars the government from taking private property for … Read the rest

Judge Nealon of Lackawanna County Notes That Direct and Vicarious Theories May Be Pursued Against Employer For Negligence by Employee

Judge Nealon of Lackawanna County Notes That Direct and Vicarious Theories May Be Pursued Against Employer For Negligence by Employee

In the motor vehicle accident case of Shaver v. Levelle, No. 21-CV-2465 (C.P. Lacka. Co. May 26, 2022 Nealon, J.), the defendant-motorist’s employer filed preliminary objections seeking to dismiss plaintiff’s claims for negligent entrustment, hiring, and training as legally insufficient since the motorist admitted that he was an employee of the employer at the time of the accident. 

Judge Nealon reviewed the law on this issue in detail and noted that several federal district courts and at least one common
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Fresno County Employees’ Retirement Association v. Isaacson/Weaver Family Trust

(United States Second Circuit) – Rejected an objecting class member’s challenge to the amount of attorney fees awarded to a law firm that represented the class in a shareholder lawsuit. Raising what the court described as a novel issue, the objector contended that the lodestar fee must be unenhanced because the action was initiated under a statute with a fee‐shifting provision.
FindLaw Opinion Summaries – Class Action

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