Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., has issued his 2023 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary.
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The Adnan Syed murder case in Maryland illustrates systemic problems in the American criminal justice system.
A March 28, 2023 decision by the Appellate Court of Maryland (previously the Special Court of Appeals of Maryland) continues the horrific saga of injustice that Syed has endured since his arrest for the murder of an 18-year-old high school student, Hae Min Lee, in Baltimore in 1999.
What happened in 1999?
Lee’s body was discovered in a shallow grave on February 9, 1999, … Read the rest
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On November 15, FDA issued the long-awaited Final Rule: Requirements for Additional Traceability Records for Certain Foods (Food Traceability Rule or final rule), which establishes additional traceability recordkeeping requirements for those that manufacture, process, pack or hold certain foods.
More specifically, the final rule identifies Key Activities or Critical Tracking Events (CTEs) along the supply chain where records containing Key Data Elements (KDEs) will have to be created and maintained for foods on the Food Traceability List … Read the rest
Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., has issued his 2022 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary.
Judiciary News – United States Courts
The federal Judiciary’s national policy-making body today agreed to administer regular workplace surveys to its employees and to extend flexibilities for remote public access to certain proceedings when the national emergency ends.
Judiciary News – United States Courts
It’s not over.
We all knew that, though some of us — including me — were hoping for a least a bit of a respite during the spring and summer months.
No such luck. Indeed, after two years of avoiding the illness, we recently had a “visit” of COVID to our house; thankfully, the one family member who got it had fairly mild symptoms.
This latest wave is a bit stealthier because of the widespread use of at-home tests and … Read the rest
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This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether defendants have standing to assert violations of an extradition treaty and whether the wire fraud statute applies extraterritorially to reach a defendant’s conduct committed only in Nigeria.
El Chapo seeks standing to argue that his trial violated the extradition treaty with Mexico
Guzman Loera v. United States is a petition brought by Joaquin Guzman Loera, better known as El Chapo, the former … Read the rest
On April 29, 2022, the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance issued two sets of “final draft” regulations relating to the corporation franchise tax reform that took effect for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2015. Since the sweeping corporate tax reform was enacted, the Department has published a series of proposed updates to the Article 9-A corporation franchise tax regulations, but the two sets of regulations issued on April 29 are the first to be … Read the rest