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French law bars Occitan from courtrooms and censuses, for example.
All of which means more children in federal immigration courtrooms.
Car seats getting discussed in courtrooms during the custody battle!
The fallout also travelled far beyond courtrooms and the Capitol.
Ten years of waving between bars, gates, courtrooms and lawyers?
State policy prohibits ICE officers from making arrests inside courtrooms.
The reforms have yielded mixed results in courtrooms, said Nundy.
These days, Latvian football's European exploits take place in courtrooms.
TALES of black magic are not common fare in British courtrooms.
Tools like TrueAllele are continuing to become more common in courtrooms.
Similar scenes play out almost daily in courtrooms across the country.
Jeff Kandyba has been sketching in Colorado courtrooms since the 1980s.
ET and returned to the courtrooms shortly after 3:30 p.m.
The courtrooms are so packed that there's little room to sit.
Because there's an impossible glut in our courtrooms, too. Right. Right.
Such samples were showing up in courtrooms as evidence, he said.
Another three start next month, and new courtrooms are being built.
For decades, I have advocated for using cameras in federal courtrooms.
The real debate on climate change is happening in the courtrooms.
Civil rights law firms should continue to do battle in courtrooms.
But defense lawyers have rushed to bring brain scans into courtrooms.
The considerable costs of updating courtrooms and hiring lawyers to preside.
But in courtrooms in McAllen, Texas, those cases are now routinely dismissed.
It's a type of DNA testing that's becoming increasingly popular in courtrooms.
Cases are heard in tatty courtrooms with computer systems that often fail.
Image: ShutterstockIn courtrooms across America, investors are making money through litigation financing.
Cleaning up the language of courtrooms is an obvious place to start.
I have sat in courtrooms during sentencing and watched judges slam defendants.
Schedules were cleared in Edinburgh courtrooms in expectation of high arrest numbers.
Others argue that courtrooms still reflect lingering cultural biases about women's credibility.
Now, however, his view is gaining traction in courtrooms around the country.
Police officers and prison guards line courtrooms the size of sports arenas.
Attribution science is also playing a role in courtrooms and human-rights hearings.
In most Alabama courtrooms, Mr. Madison would have never been sentenced to death.
That's what it's like in courtrooms working under a process called Operation Streamline.
But from a practical perspective, this would mean litigation, courtrooms and public fights.
The two parties likely will be battling it out in courtrooms for years.
Since then, Apple and Qualcomm have brought their ongoing dispute to international courtrooms.
Immigration courtrooms are not grand chambers, but relatively small rooms with limited seating.
For weeks, potential jurors have filled the long wooden benches in Manhattan courtrooms.
But they seem drawn more from American movie courtrooms than from Soviet jurisprudence.
PG&E's ultimate exposure will be probably influenced by findings in other courtrooms.
In other courtrooms, justice continues to be meted out, in fits and starts.
Getting rid of it would be as foolish as eliminating judges or courtrooms.
Come in to one of my courtrooms and you&aposll see what they do.
But by the 1950s, bit mark analysis was again being used in US courtrooms.
But upstairs, in the stuffy courtrooms lined with old bookshelves, the heat is palpable.
You've officially been one-upped by the amazing therapy dogs in these California courtrooms.
The building first opened in 85033 and contains 12 courtrooms and other federal offices.
Ten other times, both sides were ready, but no judges or courtrooms were available.
As a result, nearly one in five federal district courtrooms sits dark and unused.
But prisoners convicted of murder continue to be sentenced to death in local courtrooms.
She said she plans to show up in courtrooms to support victims of assault.
The "domestic violence fatigue" Ms. Snyder refers to is a real phenomenon in courtrooms.
And a new trend pulling more pop stars into courtrooms is a dangerous one.
Courtrooms are not particularly breezy, and the drug is certain to be securely contained.
I don't agree with every single decision that comes out from courtrooms in America.
The foundation is also developing its TrialWatch Project, which aims to fight oppression within courtrooms.
There seemed no escape from a future of endless jail cells and anonymous American courtrooms.
PACER profits apparently financed flat-screen monitors for jurors and new audio systems for courtrooms.
The fight for the environment still needs to be carried into agency hearings and courtrooms.
It has used them to redesign some courtrooms and make 12 fast track courts functional.
The law would basically just prevent women from covering their faces when they're in courtrooms.
Elias could not be reached for comment Wednesday, as he shuttled between courtrooms in Florida.
In the nation's courtrooms, judges have been freeing prisoners, often with the Justice Department's consent.
Fires have been started in courtrooms and a building belonging to the ministry of education.
That finally changed this year, as the program grew to include courtrooms across the country.
Denmark has barred judges from wearing head scarves, crucifixes, Jewish skullcaps, and turbans in courtrooms.
Meet the immigration judges in New York, whose courtrooms are the busiest in the country.
Courtrooms are rarely closed, and those that are shut mostly involve cases with classified information.
Courtrooms near the border in southern and western Texas have been packed with immigrant detainees.
The courtrooms do not have the necessary supply of hand sanitizers or tissues, she said.
But there were judges who simply didn't tolerate that criminal-justice lesson in their courtrooms.
In almost three decades on the bench, Judge Smith opposed television coverage in most courtrooms.
Although the technology of photography has improved considerably, cameras are still largely banned from courtrooms.
In Dothan courtrooms, I saw defendants pleading guilty because they were unable to afford diversion.
Who's out: Motonari Otsuru, a former prosecutor familiar with the tactics employed in Japanese courtrooms.
Ms. Jackson said she planned to draw from her experiences in courtrooms across the country.
Federal courtrooms are one of the few places left where, until recently, cameras were not allowed.
Courtrooms aren't concerned with the truth; they're arenas where two competing sets of facts do battle.
Many American states prohibit the use of cameras and other recording devices inside courtrooms during trials.
It wasn't until 2014 that California officially banished gay and transgender ''panic'' defenses from its courtrooms.
Except in the most formal language—think courtrooms and prayers—this little word may not survive.
Standing up for workers in Washington, state capitols, and courtrooms nationwide is essential to this effort.
For example, Urban Dictionary has been used as evidence to help define slang words in courtrooms.
Amid this influx of animals, classrooms and courtrooms are grappling with where to draw the line.
What can we learn from these cases about how we use scientific evidence in our courtrooms?
In addition, the perspective of parents and personal stories from young people can resonate beyond courtrooms.
But trials are only a small fraction of what actually happens in courtrooms, day to day.
Social embarrassment and sustained attacks have the power to succeed when courtrooms or political agencies fail.
In the current system, trolls continue to bring frivolous suits in sympathetic courtrooms around the country.
Between the lines: The pursuit of Trump's financial records is playing out between several committees and courtrooms.
The wood benches are primarily used in courtrooms, although they can also make you think of churches.
The competition between Uber and its Indian rival Ola has shifted from the streets to the courtrooms.
It is unsure how long the confusion over Prop 64's fine print will cloud California courtrooms.
For several years, however, the program was only available in a few courtrooms outside the West Coast.
Scenes like this are now playing out every day in courtrooms along the United States' southern border.
Therefore, these voyeuristic images have become the perfect propaganda to pass around clinics, courtrooms, and abortion centers.
They come from my time spent in courtrooms and from discussions with police officers, lawyers and judges.
Mr. Sessions established a zero-tolerance policy for illegal immigration that filled courtrooms along the southern border.
This series reflects on the idea of courtrooms as entertainment and how we got to this point.
Courtrooms can be cramped as judges, attorneys, family members, experts, and others gather for hearings every day.
In contrast, St. Louis closed schools, churches, courtrooms, and libraries, and banned gatherings larger than 20 people.
Inside, sunlight pours down through a ten-story atrium of pale marble, flanked by dozens of courtrooms.
As PG&E's future is sorted out, many who will be affected are far from the courtrooms.
The Americans have equipped courtrooms across the country and trained judges, prosecutors, police officers and law professors.
Adjudication centers serve as a hub for immigration judges who beam into courtrooms remotely to hear cases.
"Scores like this — known as risk assessments — are increasingly common in courtrooms across the nation," ProPublica explained.
Some served as rough-and-ready courtrooms for unlicensed lawyers (to "take discussion tea" was to seek mediation).
While Hernandez has been shuffled between courtrooms and jail cells, his former teammates and friends have become superstars.
Crosby's idea came from her own childhood experience in and out of courtrooms during her parent's contentious divorce.
The organization aims to "advance justice in courtrooms, communities and classrooms around the world," according to its website.
Perry Mason moments luckily happen only on TV, not in the courtrooms where Americans are tried or freed.
Those courtrooms may soon be among the last remaining venues in which to pursue a liberal legal agenda.
Unlike most courtrooms, domestic violence courts employ judges, prosecutors, and victim advocates who specialize in intimate partner abuse.
They also handed the children business cards, at the shelters and outside courtrooms, and encouraged them to call.
That should mean Silicon Valley lawyers and execs will spend less time fighting suits in East Texas courtrooms.
Other women filed lawsuits against Mr. Cosby, and three other cases remain active in courtrooms around the country.
But the overall number was dismal: 25 percent in commercial and criminal cases in courtrooms across New York.
The justice systems in most European nations, including Germany and France, ban filming by the media in courtrooms.
Courtrooms Jury members may no longer have to evaluate crime scenes by looking at dull, two-dimensional photographs.
Then, they dispatch advocates to courtrooms across the state, where they ask a judge to consider appointing them.
The simple onslaught of news from the impeachment hearings, courtrooms, and nationally televised addresses, would flood the zone.
Historically, prosecutors have made their names in courtrooms, during trials, but in recent years trials have nearly disappeared.
I have cross-examined many snitches in federal courtrooms across the country who I am certain were lying.
Government supporters erupt with anger, and police officers and prison guards line courtrooms the size of sports arenas.
Some judges ruled against him even when their courtrooms were invaded by thugs chanting that they should be killed.
Whether it's Oregon or any other state, "drunk-driving" courtrooms are always different from other rooms in the courthouse.
Robes are one of the oldest documented garments, worn everywhere from churches and courtrooms to boxing rings and bedrooms.
Although prosecutors have tried to tear apart Fromme's credibility in courtrooms, she is highly respected among other alcohol experts.
Every Tuesday night, millions tune in to watch Michael Weatherly dominate courtrooms as ace trial consultant Dr. Jason Bull.
These arrests have often grabbed headlines because they occurred at or near hospitals, courtrooms, churches, and other public places.
At 6 feet 6 inches, Mr. Britt was a thundering, theatrical presence in the courtrooms of eastern North Carolina.
Those battles may become longer and more prosaic as they are fought out with legal filings and in courtrooms.
The nation's courtrooms have been glutted with millions of collection lawsuits, many of which are backed by thin documentation.
Trials start hours later than scheduled, lunches extend into midafternoon, courtrooms close early and vacations routinely lead to continuations.
At that point, the show was using the city's courtrooms because they didn't have their own court sets yet.
The judges are also worried that the immigrants that pass through their courtrooms could be especially vulnerable to coronavirus.
"The cases opened are concluded not in the courtrooms but in the rooms of the (presidential) palace," she added.
Officer Narain, who became a correctional officer in 2016, transported inmates from Rikers Island to courtrooms, primarily in Brooklyn.
The new rules codify procedures that would essentially turn college boardrooms into courtrooms when adjudicating sex assault disciplinary proceedings.
Even this week, attorneys have been posting to social media documenting standing-room-only courtrooms and crowded waiting rooms.
Yet in the courtrooms, a new phase has begun: Hundreds of suspects, including dozens of women, have faced judges.
" Looking around at the courtrooms, she said, "This is when one's life is turned upside down—when gravity changes.
It's a parade of lawyers, courtrooms, offices with fluorescent strip lighting, long-distance travel and lives put on hold.
In courtrooms, especially in Europe, blood typing of mother and child became a method of ruling out putative fathers.
Outlining a broader criminal justice reform plan, he also recommended a moratorium on courtrooms' use of algorithms predicting recidivism.
Some of them are also live-streamed online, giving the public a chance to peer into courtrooms around the country.
"He's a good person with a great record [with] law enforcement and courtrooms for a long time," DeGeurin told CNN.
The media is lapping up the salacious storyline as it plays out in courtrooms and arbitration hearings across Los Angeles.
At the time, blacks in many places couldn't enter theaters, restaurants, hotels or parts of public libraries, courtrooms and legislatures.
The parents and grandparents of today's young black protesters largely waged the battle for civil rights in courtrooms and churches.
Ultimately, that case and others led several Florida judges to stop allowing breath tests to be used in their courtrooms.
Plus, these women made courtrooms across the country more comfortable for women to appear in as lawyers, witnesses and jurors.
By contrast, there are 14 courtrooms reserved for landlord-tenant disputes, most of which are initiated by landlords pursuing evictions.
This is both integral to Uber's business model and, in different markets and courtrooms around the world, currently in dispute.
"There is a finite number of federal prosecutors, and there's only a finite number of courtrooms," a former prosecutor said.
He's more interested in showing Mildred and Richard laughing with their friends than in hanging around courtrooms, watching their defense.
Our music critic also looks at a trend he finds disturbing: pop stars being pulled into courtrooms for lifting ideas.
All women - whether they're working on Capitol Hill or in restaurants or courtrooms or campuses or hospitals - deserve equality & respect.
New York (CNN Business)An increasingly ugly fight for control of Campbell Soup is playing out in courtrooms and boardrooms.
In courtrooms from Texas to Virginia, Delaware and New York, Mr. Alix has appeared before bankruptcy judges to attack McKinsey.
The facility also has a full medical unit, a mental-health unit and two courtrooms to handle misdemeanours and preliminary hearings.
A Startup Backed By Peter Thiel Makes Bankrolling Civil Lawsuits EasyIn courtrooms across America, investors are making money through litigation financing.
The courtroom was so packed for Thursday's proceedings that spectators filled two overflow courtrooms to watch the proceedings via video stream.
India's top court has deemed it necessary to play the national anthem in theaters in the country, but not in courtrooms.
The new ASEAN initiative will also provide police training in financial investigations, professional development for judges, and promote child-friendly courtrooms.
Judges have urged ICE not to make arrests in courtrooms because they might scare away victims from showing up to court.
The foundation, co-founded by the couple in 2016, works to advance justice in courtrooms, classrooms and communities around the world.
Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) kicked off her questioning with softball, asking Gorsuch how he feels about allowing cameras in federal courtrooms.
John Conyers (D-Mich.) asked about claims that having cameras in the courtrooms heighten the level of potential threats against judges.
These statistics suggest why employers, who nearly always foot the bill for arbitration, prefer it to hashing out disputes in courtrooms.
The state has tried to improve the system in the Bronx, adding judges, opening more courtrooms and fast-tracking aging cases.
He stopped prosecutors from showing on screens in the courtrooms photographs of the high-end items Manafort owned, like custom jackets.
But, at least for now, the law allows trial judges broad reach to enjoin rules and regulations far beyond their courtrooms.
At the intersection of this debate are lawyers who are putting this science under the microscope in courtrooms across the country.
Its effects are felt not only in courtrooms but also in regulatory agencies that issue rules to try to prevent disease.
However, there appears to be little political will in El Salvador to revisit a painful chapter of its history in courtrooms.
In an interview, Sheriff Scott D. Hable said stun cuffs were useful in courtrooms because shackles make a defendant look guilty.
The angry but resolute words of Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney and Maggie Nichols have echoed in the courtrooms of Michigan.
The Supreme Court currently has 25 judges who typically sit in panels of two or three, across about a dozen courtrooms.
Ostrow did not understand why the DOJ was resistant to closing down the courtrooms and in-person hearings given the pandemic.
But many of them were not barred from filing civil suits, four of which remain active in courtrooms around the country.
But do the attorneys who guided him through the courtrooms of New York and New Jersey know how to navigate Washington?
And the fact he didn't lose may signal that businesses like Phillips's that want to discriminate can still win in courtrooms.
A parallel clash over Congress's power to get information and the president's power to keep it secret played out in two courtrooms.
Attorneys and defendants have argued the tactic in U.S. courtrooms as part of provocation, insanity, and self-defense claims since the 1960s.
Such scenes were once unthinkable in England's courtrooms, where magistrates can be called "your worship" and some judges sport gowns and wigs.
That won't happen at an awards show — it will happen in meetings of Time's Up working groups, in courtrooms, and on sets.
Because polygraphs have never convinced the majority of scientists, the Frye standard has excluded them from most courtrooms for almost a century.
"Entertainment and news media shape not only culture but also decisions made in courtrooms, classrooms, and yes, even voting booths," Messing said.
All of the spaces The Night Of takes us through—cells, courtrooms, police stations—are thoroughly male, and thoroughly dominated by men.
A total of four sentencing reforms began to take effect in courtrooms across the country the day after the bill was signed.
Rather it has been immigration judges themselves using the more stringent standard in their courtrooms that has affected asylum seekers the most.
Imagine if these US diplomats, officials and service members had to stand trial in civil lawsuits in foreign courtrooms under foreign laws.
These Iraqis and Afghans wanted to believe the Americans could be trusted to follow up, especially behind closed doors and in courtrooms.
Even undecided, the appeal is having an impact in courtrooms, where judges have started voicing more skepticism over the use of warrants.
Brownsville's mayor Trey Mendez said last month that about 60 such courtrooms were likely to be opened, though he had few details.
In time, she would see the inside of so many courtrooms that she no longer found herself nervous sitting before a judge.
The commission's internal judges have greater sway in their courtrooms than judges overseeing proceedings that adhere to the rules of due process.
Prosecutors and judges can take shorter courses meant to familiarize them with digital evidence, which is still relatively new to many courtrooms.
That's a major, albeit temporary, boost for the administration, which has been defending its "public charge" rule in courtrooms around the country.
The group in the past has claimed responsibility for many court-related assaults, including on provincial courtrooms and buses carrying court employees.
Now the dust has settled, #MeToo has moved from the front pages and Twitter feeds into courtrooms, company boards and legislative chambers.
"Our courtrooms are not movie theaters," wrote Judge Debra Ann Livingston of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
But the US fight over GMOs, which has so far played out mostly online and in courtrooms, is about to get political attention.
But for Mr Fisher, that shouldn't excuse the court's refusal to protect courtrooms from the influence of America's original—and most grievous—sin.
For some doctors, however, settling the question at the level of the UN or in courtrooms sets a dangerous precedent for patient care.
Filling city courtrooms with people suffering from addiction only further strains the system and makes it harder for these people to get treatment.
Virginia, a landmark US Supreme Court case holding that absent extraordinary circumstances, the First Amendment guarantees citizens access to courtrooms in criminal cases.
"All human life is laid bare within these walls," Toyn tells me, sitting at a huge mahogany table outside one of the courtrooms.
"I don't think we can leave it to judges and juries given the record of homophobia that we've seen in courtrooms," he said.
As they enter and exit the courtrooms of The Hague in their adorned judicial robes, all rise in a required gesture of respect.
Background reading: • Do the lawyers who guided Mr. Trump through the courtrooms of New York and New Jersey know how to navigate Washington?
The one exception was in courtrooms where cameras were expressly forbidden because of the distractions of flashbulbs and other types of artificial lighting.
Court motions and hearings are scheduled over the next few days in courtrooms around the country over legal challenges to the immigration order.
Accordingly, the best sovereign-debt hedge funds are run by scrappy types with experience in courtrooms, not business-school graduates or management consultants.
The umpiring done in courtrooms, however, is done by judges who follow First Amendment precedents established over the years by the Supreme Court.
They continued to serve for their lifetimes in courtrooms and classrooms and emergency rooms and board rooms and community organizations and legislative chambers.
In the overflowing courtrooms, one judge raced through hearings, opening 85 cases on a recent day, and several others were not far behind.
Courtrooms are filled with people — judges, jurors, lawyers and witnesses — whose perceptions are shaped by the prejudices and implicit biases of our culture.
But he shouldn't be surprised if the career federal prosecutors who represent the United States in courtrooms across the country feel very differently.
Mr. Cohen's performance is likely the first of many such soul-barings to play out in hearing rooms and courtrooms over coming months.
Out with the old tropes about truth-seeking investigators and tidy resolutions; in with the disquieting, dysfunctional reality of many courtrooms and police stations.
Gbenga Akinnagbe, who plays accused rapist Tom Robinson, said the circumstances faced by his character are still happening in courtrooms across the United States.
Federal courtrooms were packed over the summer with first-time, nonviolent offenders—many of them those same Central American families—arrested for illegally crossing.
The practice, regrettably, will continue in courtrooms across the country as courts ignore patterns of race discrimination and accept false reasons for the strikes.
In October 2016 lawyers and teachers in English-speaking cities went on strike in protest at having to use French in schools and courtrooms.
The fallacy of this argument is that although such cases may involve private entities, they choose to use public courtrooms to resolve their disputes.
Second, the special interests who have toiled in the courtrooms trying to expand federal power have a new home in the "critical infrastructure" effort.
Ahmed told Vanity Fair that he visited Rikers Island and New York City courtrooms to prep for his role on the hit HBO show.
In courtrooms, experts debated whether photos were reflections of reality or artistic products; legal scholars wondered whether photographs needed to be corroborated by witnesses.
But, even if the process were legal, Assange is not a terrorist, and extraordinary renditions do not deliver captives to civilian courtrooms in Virginia.
In courtrooms down the hall from the trials, young black men were being prosecuted for doing exactly what Gray did in fleeing the police.
To say we should deal with nursing homes, schools, large areas where people convene, but not deal with jails, prisons and courtrooms is naïve.
Depending on your place in line, you'll join one of the following courtrooms: The first approximately 50 people are allowed in the main courtroom.
Some appear in handcuffs in courtrooms, making it possible there could be an understanding of the seemingly unanswerable question — why did they do it?
The fight for the environment still needs to be carried into agency hearings and courtrooms; for that, the big environmental groups are getting ready.
As of November 2019, there are 20193 courthouse facility dogs working in 40 states, but not all dogs are in courtrooms all the time.
There are airplane rides, fans begging for autographs, USO dancing girls, yachts, film sets, costumes, flashing lights, courtrooms, conga lines, and for Susie, networking.
The authorities elsewhere in the world, including rural Pakistan and the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, have used buses as mobile courtrooms.
These shows, in which legal disputes were resolved in fake courtrooms, represented a fresh form—reality TV—that blended the everyday and the outlandish.
Florida law currently bans even people with gun permits from carrying firearms in an airport's public places and places like courtrooms and college classrooms.
Even small, local newspapers could afford to undertake investigations and to hire lawyers to argue for access to public meetings and for open courtrooms.
Her deepest and most personal pains had been read aloud in courtrooms, obsessively reported, and ultimately rejected as cause for severing her recording contract.
Watches will no doubt continue to be a mainstay in offices, courtrooms, schools, hospitals, and anywhere else smartphones aren't readily accessible for the foreseeable future.
Duran's first immigration court hearing, in 2017, was at one of more than a dozen small courtrooms at the New York field offices for USCIS.
Courtrooms are now mercifully free of thumbscrews, but the psychological manipulation, the victim-blaming and the untouchable sway of powerful men will all be recognisable.
Arbitration allows workers and bosses alike to "avoid the costs of litigation" and speeds up the process, steering clear of the "procedural morass" of courtrooms.
Future decisions on the 1,172-mile (1,93-km) pipeline are likely to come through discussions with the incoming administration of Donald Trump, or in courtrooms.
My mom thinks I'm crazy, but I've worn heels to gay bars, straight bars, courtrooms, grocery stores, venues, banks, restaurants, dumpling shacks — you name it.
Torres' decision is a victory for Point183 and Cohen, allowing them to defend themselves in private proceedings rather than in courtrooms and through court filings.
In Brownsville, U.S. officials told Mayor Trey Mendez they plan to open a tent facility with more than 60 virtual immigration courtrooms in coming weeks.
The courts encourage such agreements in order to avoid lengthy and contentious trials and to free courtrooms and judicial resources to focus on other matters.
But there's one thing our decades of working in courtrooms and jails across this country has taught us – incarceration alone does not make us safer.
It had been debated in courtrooms for about two years, but its effects were seen for the first time on Tuesday, according to ABC News.
As staff with our organization, Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), observed in the Houston and Atlanta courtrooms, the hearings went exactly as we feared.
That is the way in for judges from State Supreme Court whose courtrooms are upstairs — and the lawyers, plaintiffs and defendants who appear before them.
In courtrooms across the country, judges turn to computer algorithms when deciding whether defendants awaiting trial must pay bail or can be released without payment.
From classrooms to courtrooms to Congress members pushing the Green New Deal, an ambitious new suite of tactics are being deployed to defend the environment.
A president who makes an average of six false statements per day would not last long in the courtrooms where those prosecutors made their careers.
Britain's top broadcasters have lobbied for the introduction of cameras in courtrooms for years, calling the ban shameful and the reliance on court sketches ludicrous.
Beyond the ballot box, battles have been breaking out over growth in courtrooms and City Council meetings, with skirmishes over rent control and other issues.
The trailer is one of many makeshift courtrooms set up in Brownsville, just across from Matamoros, Mexico, and were only recently opened up to journalists.
I was inside both courtrooms for CNN and the judge in the McGahn case seemed particularly skeptical of the White House's broad "absolute immunity" argument.
DePaolo's conduct "raises the specter that this nation's courtrooms are partisan, and that judges consider political platforms when advising litigants," Metry said in his ruling.
"There are reasons why defense lawyers seek 'changes of venue' and avoid the courtrooms of 'hanging judges,' " added Buchanan, a two-time GOP presidential candidate.
Kaine's a Harvard-educated lawyer who says back when he was a practicing attorney, he often relied more on documents than on witnesses in courtrooms.
The multiple confrontations consolidate around a common theme that is being tested in Congress and the nation's courtrooms: How much transparency does the President owe Americans?
The vicious battle over the future of Sumner M. Redstone's $40 billion media empire boiled over from the public stage into courtrooms on both coasts Monday.
If judges are serious about fulfilling their duty to defend the independence of our judiciary, they must defend it both in their courtrooms and in public.
Davis' job has been to advocate for Cohen on TV and in the media while Petrillo has maintained a ghost like presence appearing only in courtrooms.
In 2010, Lavalle played a major role in getting JPMorgan Chase to admit that they were delivering documents with improper signatures into courtrooms across the country.
We're just at the start of a battle that publishers such as Electronic Arts and Blizzard will soon start fighting in European, and possibly American, courtrooms.
It has been challenged, but rebuffed, in American courtrooms, where all states and the District of Columbia protect most communications between a clergyman and a churchgoer.
Inside the packed courtrooms, the robed lawyers stood 15 deep, mopping the sweat from their foreheads with folded handkerchiefs as they waited to present their cases.
The case has reverberated far beyond the courtrooms of Michigan, leading to efforts to identify the officials who knew about the abuse and covered it up.
There are airplane rides, fans begging for autographs, USO dancing girls, yachts, film sets, bright costumes, flashing lights, courtrooms, conga lines — and for Susie, constant networking.
When Trump writes, "More due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials," we don't need to research due process in Salem courtrooms.
He was sentenced to decades behind bars after a series guilty pleas to charges of child pornography and sexual misconduct in both federal and state courtrooms.
Even as county officials in Michigan rushed this week to recount votes in borrowed offices and conference centers, the legal battle proceeded in multiple courtrooms simultaneously.
His campaign chair, deputy campaign chair, national security advisor, and foreign policy aides have all ended up in courtrooms for conspiracy, corruption, and money-laundering charges.
The longer a divorce is drawn out with lawyers and in courtrooms, the more emotionally taxing the divorce becomes for the children and the entire family.
"Respondent's actions raises the specter that this nation's courtrooms are partisan, and that judges consider political platforms when advising litigants," the administrative law judge's decision says.
"The Sixth Amendment is a meaningful presence in American courtrooms today in large part because of Justice Scalia," said Jeffrey L. Fisher, a law professor at Stanford.
To date, much of what is known about the inquiry has been revealed in legal documents and via Mueller's prosecutors in federal courtrooms in Washington and Virginia.
Michelle Hadley Women suspected of crimes — whether innocent or guilty — have long been painted in courtrooms and the media as unhinged, motivated most often by relationship drama.
After law school, I worked for two small law firms that allowed me a lot opportunities to be in the courtrooms and run cases with little micromanagement.
Should we refuse to adopt algorithms in courtrooms for serious decisions (ie, sentencing) on that basis, since we may never be sure it is truly blind justice?
Mr. Lancman said a shortage of judges, court officers and courtrooms were the major reasons for the backlogs, not just in the Bronx but across the city.
That kind of information has already begun appearing in courtrooms from event data recorders, or EDRs, which have become standard in new cars over the past decade.
In Tallinn's courtrooms, judges' benches are fitted with two monitors, for consulting information during the proceedings, and case files are assembled according to the once-only principle.
It was nothing like TV or the movies, where teary-eyed people pledge allegiance to their new country in gleaming courtrooms with soaring music and waving flags.
And though Americans recite this oath almost every day in courtrooms, Americans have avoided a truthful conversation about ourselves and our past outside the halls of justice.
The hundreds of thousands of voices speaking against religious discrimination have undoubtedly elevated and strengthened the legal arguments the ACLU is making inside courtrooms across the country.
Mr. Rybolovlev leveled criminal charges against Mr. Bouvier in Monaco, where he was arrested last year, and has also pursued him in courtrooms in Singapore and France.
Courtrooms are always stages, and even though few people see the hearings unfold, it is still a setting for an especially difficult mix of ideas and perspectives.
Regardless, the couple has seen their fair share of courtrooms over the years, and, if all is true, appear to engage in some cut throat business tactics.
Goldberg, a graduate of Brooklyn Law School, is a surprisingly glamorous presence, especially for the places her work tends to take her: drab courtrooms, grubby police precincts.
The facilities, which can be spotted from the Mexico side of the border, are lined with artificial grass, and a mix of waiting rooms and makeshift courtrooms.
Two different federal courtrooms, one in New York and one outside Washington, demonstrated starkly on Tuesday that the 45th president has operated within a circle of criminality.
The debate about replacing Line 3, which since the 1960s has carried crude oil from Alberta to Wisconsin, has played out in protests, public hearings and courtrooms.
A team of 60 reporters, photographers and videographers covered it hour by hour, capturing scenes in courtrooms, treatment centers, hospitals, jails, halfway houses and a funeral parlor.
The new study, scheduled for publication in June in the linguistic journal Language, provides insight on how using black dialect could also impact African-Americans in courtrooms.
The "Serial" team embeds itself in courtrooms for over a year in Cleveland, Ohio, "the least exceptional, most middle-of-the-road, most middle-of-the-country place".
There is no ban on Muslim women wearing a headscarf in Germany, though some states have restrictions on headscarves and other Muslim religious clothing in courtrooms and schools.
Turks is specially trained and certified to appear in courtrooms, where she often snuggles next to victims, especially children, to help them get through the trauma of testifying.
Some have warred openly with Trump — from the halls of Congress to U.S. courtrooms — around efforts to restrict immigration and rethink the U.S. government's approach to climate change.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department has issued new guidelines for immigration judges that remove some instructions for how to protect unaccompanied juveniles appearing in their courtrooms.
The Clooney Foundation for Justice was formed in 2016 to "advance justice in courtrooms, classrooms and communities around the world," according to a mission statement on its website.
Every Wednesday, when foreclosure auctions are held, protesters gather outside Greek courts, blocking access to legal staff, barging into courtrooms and, on occasion, clashing with the riot police.
He writes: Getting handcuffed is only the first step in a path for arrestees that winds its way through holding cells in police station houses and eventually courtrooms.
Judges across the country are embracing video technology as a means to hold hearings and conduct other judicial business while courtrooms close their doors amid the coronavirus outbreak.
These conditions, said Ostrow, are particularly concerning for ICE prosecutors who in recent days have been panicked, describing people coughing and appearing sick continuing to come to courtrooms.
In Laredo, 20 to 27 tent courtrooms will provide video conferencing equipment so judges not based at the border can hear cases remotely, said city spokesman Rafael Benavides.
The swearing-in, for most, is simply a ritual; in courtrooms across the country, judges administer the oath to countless new attorneys each time bar results are released.
Leaders of AALJ, which represents 193,300 judges who oversee disability hearings, criticized the SSA for continuing in-person proceedings, especially when many immunocompromised senior citizens frequent the courtrooms.
Perhaps one day, soon, the freedom to love will no more need arguments in courtrooms, and one's identity will not need the stamp of approval of the state.
The measure Ms. Merkel spoke of this week would not be a blanket ban, but would apply only in places like courtrooms, government buildings, schools and public demonstrations.
Boxing star Adrien Broner has a busy Monday -- he's got dates in TWO courtrooms in TWO states to face TWO separate allegations of sexual misconduct, TMZ Sports has learned.
Judges were removing crosses from courtrooms, the festival of St. Martin was being rebranded as a "festival of lights," and kindergartens were replacing pork with halal meat, he said.
Monday's proceedings took place at Old City Hall in Toronto, with dozens of journalists and a few members of the public filling up two courtrooms and also stationed outside.
The big picture: The two companies have a range of litigation in courtrooms around the world on issues ranging from patents to the breaking of contracts and other issues.
The trial is being held in a modern government-owned building on the outskirts of the city because the island capital's courtrooms are too small to manage the proceedings.
Fast-forward to the modern day, and the state-of-the-art risk-assessment algorithms used by courtrooms are far more sophisticated than the rudimentary tools designed by Burgess.
She spent the years in between in and out of courtrooms, locked in a bitter battle with her producer and label head Dr. Luke and his Kemosabe Records imprint.
What we are getting is we&aposre getting the low-hanging fruit in courtrooms, and what it&aposs doing is keeping victims and other people from doing lawful things.
According to research from the Yale Global Health Justice Partnership, there is a trend of painting sex workers as victims in courtrooms, while treating and prosecuting them as criminals.
She spent the years in between in and out of courtrooms, locked in a bitter battle with her producer and label head Dr. Luke and his Kemosabe Records imprint.
To the Editor: In your article a number of federal judges from the Southern District of New York express regret that their courtrooms now see so few jury trials.
This finding, repeated countless times in courtrooms and law offices over the past 85033 years, is an attempt at scientific misdirection aimed at extricating Ford from lawsuits, critics say.
But the Trump administration — and, namely, the Executive Office for Immigration Review, which oversees the United States' 68 immigration courts — is thus far resisting demands to shutter the courtrooms.
The cases — one criminal, the other civil — will be decided in two Manhattan courtrooms, and include allegations ranging from sexual assault to a cover-up by his former company.
This finding, repeated countless times in courtrooms and law offices over the past 15 years, is an attempt at scientific misdirection aimed at extricating Ford from lawsuits, critics say.
Protesters dressed in the red robes of Atwood's Handmaids — women forced into childbearing slavery — have become a familiar sight outside courtrooms ruling on cases and legislation involving reproductive freedom.
The result of these trends is that many plaintiffs' sex abuse cases that might have been lost in the past can now be big verdict winners in today's American courtrooms.
Courtrooms, boardrooms, nicely decorated drawing rooms, and newsrooms furnished with little more than telephones and smoke: they all feel cocked and combat-ready, and every deadline looms like an ambush.
It said 54 percent of judges who participated in the survey revealed they had cases in courtrooms that had been interrupted due to immigrants avoiding court for this very reason.
"The first time you saw this country, you might have been apprehended, in detention facilities, courtrooms or jails since you arrived, and all of a sudden you're out," Pérez said.
Those lawsuits succeeded in three separate courtrooms, with federal judges in California, New York and DC issuing nationwide rulings that the program must be continued, in the vein of Hanen.
A recent article in the Times described vacant courtrooms, out-of-work stenographers, and New York judges who can go a year or more without hearing a single criminal case.
BOSTON — Harvard casts a large shadow over the Federal District Court in Boston, and not just because the college's admissions system is on trial in one of the courtrooms here.
Earlier this month, the same trial had to switch courtrooms after a different juror told the judge that they had potential exposure to someone who had tested positive for coronavirus.
Even as courtrooms reopened, criminal and civil proceedings were delayed for weeks as prosecutors and FBI agents were diverted to a Justice Department command center to investigate the terror attack.
He attributed the growing diversity in courtrooms across America to the university level, and said that taking race out of a university's admissions process would harm, not help, that effort.
News Analysis WASHINGTON — In two courtrooms 200 miles apart on Tuesday, President Trump's almost daily attempts to dismiss the criminal investigations that have engulfed his White House all but collapsed.
When immigrants show up at the border before dawn for their hearings, they are put in CBP holding cells and then bussed to courtrooms, conditions that could spread the virus.
In many courtrooms, several legal questions still loom regarding the bail money and how hospitals lobby for what is owed: Go deeper: At hospital nonprofits, lawsuits frequently target former patients
There, every Friday for the past two months, several courtrooms have been dedicated to processing Extinction Rebellion members arrested during April's protests for disobeying a police order to move on.
For normal youth behavior, students of color are being sent to courtrooms, jails, and detention centers, while their white peers are directed toward academic, social, emotional, and mental health support.
But the Court very well may have sent a signal to those on Phillips's side that at least some of these cases allowing discrimination stand a chance in US courtrooms.
And so if #MeToo is going to make its way into courtrooms, it will be because of prosecutors — and their most powerful tools: victims willing to tell their stories in court.
More than the sociopolitical winds blowing through the nation, judges can be swayed by what's inside their courtrooms: who's looking them right in the eye, and how that's making them feel.
With some exceptions, courtrooms remain one of the few places where photography is forbidden, so sketching is a vital way of capturing the moods, emotions, and actions of what's going on.
Every advancement black people have made away from violent racial subjugation toward equal citizenship has been the result of standing and fighting together in the communities, streets, courtrooms, and voting booths.
Hearings like this happen on a regular basis in federal courtrooms along the border now that the Trump administration is prosecuting anyone crossing the border under a new "zero tolerance" policy.
Kirtley said that the judge's "very, very unusual" decision was in contradiction to the US Supreme Court precedent that gives the public the constitutional right to access courtrooms and their proceedings.
Nor is it likely to play well in front of judges, as more than 100 federal lawsuits and scores of state suits work their way through courtrooms from coast to coast.
Another Trump administration policy coming soon to courtrooms is a plan, rolled out earlier this month, to limit new permanent residents to applicants with the financial means to care for themselves.
Most courts that are housed in federal prisons or privately operated detention centers don't allow attorneys to bring cell phones into their courtrooms, let alone Wi-Fi-equipped laptops or tablets.
Infographic: American generations through the years Cigarette smoke hung in the air everywhere as smoking was permitted in offices, bars, restaurants, buses, movie theaters, airplanes and even in courtrooms and hospitals.
Around the country, police departments and courtrooms are turning to artificial intelligence algorithms to help them decide everything from where to deploy police officers to whether to release defendants on bail.
The story has largely moved on to the confines of courtrooms, with some of the parents indicted choosing to plead guilty and others promising to fight the case tooth and nail.
The battle played out for years in courtrooms and the New York news media, becoming a kind of parable of the limits of 2150s capitalist ambition in the social democratic city.
The lawsuit, and others that the two sides are fighting in courtrooms on both sides of the country, have also laid bare a bitter dispute involving family ties and personal rivalries.
But the scales of justice aren't just at a critical tipping point in our criminal courtrooms; they've been dangerously tilted against low-income Americans in our civil justice system for years.
"This is just a reminder that immigration judges do not have the authority to post, or ask you to post, signage for their individual courtrooms or the waiting areas," Santoro wrote.
The standoff has been playing out for nearly two weeks behind the scenes in Panamanian courtrooms and ministry offices as well as in plain sight in the hotel's lobby and corridors.
Today, she belongs to a growing community of victims: Americans who were wrongly convicted with the help of forensic disciplines allowed into courtrooms despite little to no proof of their reliability.
Without spoiling his story, the end arrives with yet another twist when, after years of living out of sight, Le Roux shows up, in the flesh, in two separate federal courtrooms.
The fight is being waged during community meetings and call-in radio shows and in courtrooms, where opponents, mostly those from areas where shelters will be placed, have registered their concerns.
Two days after passing the bar exam, he walked into a courtroom to try a case and stepped right in the spittoon, a standard feature in Texas courtrooms at the time.
"Judges don't want to have their courtrooms turned upside down for the sake of social scientists trying to isolate variables," said Kirk Helbrun, who has compared different risk assessment tools like COMPAS.
However, as a country we should not ignore the district and appellate judges in whose courtrooms half a million cases will be filed and tens of thousands of appeals will be heard.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Police searched courtrooms in at least seven German cities on Friday after bomb threats and security alerts, with at least one emailed warning signed: "Nazi offensive", officials and media said.
We've been able to block some of these moves with lobbying and legal challenges, but the chaos in capitols and courtrooms is creating an unworkable patchwork of differing tax and reporting mandates.
That case is just the beginning of the legal bills for Viacom, as fights erupt in courtrooms across three states in the fierce power struggle for Mr. Redstone's $40 billion media empire.
Her findings have already changed our understanding of pain; now they promise to transform its diagnosis and treatment, a shift whose effects will be felt in hospitals, courtrooms, and society at large.
Why, as someone who has dealt with not just the politics of this, but the reality -- in courtrooms -- of our immigration system, did you take note of it and get behind it?
Still some legal scholars and attorneys decry the growing presence of neuroscience in courtrooms, calling it a "double-edged sword" that either unduly exonerates defendants or marks them as irredeemable future dangers.
We've invited these algorithms into our courtrooms and our hospitals and our schools, and they're making these tiny decisions on our behalf that are subtly shifting the way our society is operating.
They rarely turn violent, but even peaceful encounters, like all but one of Mr. Castile's, can lead to fines, searches, arrests and days of sitting in courtrooms that disproportionately affect poorer citizens.
Children have periodically escaped over the years, long before the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" and family separation policies flooded courtrooms, detention centers and shelters along the border with detained adults and youth.
Of course, we know that the only way to deal with a bully is to stand up to him, and people are doing just that whether in courtrooms or on the streets.
Over the intervening years, I found myself in state and federal courtrooms watching prosecutors arguing he should be given a long prison sentence for things he did even after his girlfriend's death.
It is common for judges to publish guidance for lawyers who appear in their courtrooms on how to conduct themselves with regard to minor matters like how and when to file motions.
It also shows how criminal court judges, who handle dozens of cases each day in crowded courtrooms, often make decisions based on scant information presented to them by public defenders and prosecutors.
The debate over the technique has played out in courtrooms in New York and also on a state forensic science commission, which regulates crime laboratories and has a broad mandate of quality control.
Much about the case is unknown, because it has been playing out in courtrooms closed to the public in Washington, and because most of the documents filed in the case have been sealed.
Long before this week's vote, the recall campaign's impact had been felt in courtrooms across the country, where judges became increasingly cautious about exercising discretion, worried that they might be punished for leniency.
He noted that Mustafa&aposs conviction in England related to hate-speech charges rather than an effort to directly solicit anyone to commit murder, which is the more common meaning in U.S. courtrooms.
Ethicon documents revealed in courtrooms around the world described ways in which the plastic netting could cause severe pain and complications including painful sex, bleeding, organ perforation, and pelvic, back, and leg pain.
That led to a six-week trial in 2014 that was jointly overseen by a judge in Ontario and a U.S. Bankruptcy judge in Delaware, who linked their courtrooms by cross-border video.
Lawyers are playing what The New York Times has called a game of "cat and mouse," shuffling their immigrant defendants out of courtrooms if they suspect ICE agents are there, waiting to pounce.
There's not much risk, but one gets to feel brave and subversive for tossing around four-letter words with abandon anyhow — shades of Bruce and Carlin, but without all the cops and courtrooms.
In Iowa, a running dispute over allowing firearms in courthouses has prompted bills by Republican sponsors to slash judges' pay and require them to personally pay rent for courtrooms that are gun-free.
It can be authorized by a judge in Italian courtrooms and in some cases in Spain, where the trial of the Catalan independence leaders at the Supreme Court in 2019 was broadcast live.
The executive director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, Benjamin Johnson, called the decision "part of a systematic effort to marginalize the role of immigration judges in their own courtrooms" in a statement.
Zimbabwe and the CAR are extreme examples, but across much of Africa you find courtrooms that are dilapidated and judges who take an age to resolve disputes or sort the innocent from the guilty.
And activists told me they're ready to push hard to protect vulnerable communities and promote renewable energy at the local and national level — in town halls and courtrooms, and around next year's midterm elections.
These questions are playing out in our courtrooms every day, whether or not the science is ready to answer them, and the number of cases involving neurobiological evidence and arguments are growing each year.
These allow him just barely to survive and work out of his apartment, but they also consign him to innumerable hearings in multiple courtrooms, for which he is in a perpetual state of tardiness.
The nominee was then forced to admit a dismal or entirely nonexistent level of knowledge regarding the two bibles of federal courtrooms: the Federal Rules of Evidence and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
Colleges and universities have fretted that bolstered rights for the accused under Ms. DeVos's draft rules would force them to set up the equivalent of courtrooms, complete with prosecutors, defense lawyers and cross-examinations.
"Why go to Cancun, all these major resorts areas, when you can go to all these major cities, sit in these courtrooms and learn more than you ever could in a classroom?" he said.
Scott Turow has set his latest novel, "Testimony," against this background, swapping the American courtrooms of previous books like "Presumed Innocent" and "The Burden of Proof" for the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands.
Federal courts have rather strict rules around electronics and recording devices inside courtrooms, the laws of which go back much further than some of the software and services we use to broadcast news today.
The debate even entered courtrooms when drivers suing Uber for treating them as independent contractors instead of employees argued that the company intentionally misled riders to believe that tips were included in the fare.
A Stanford-trained attorney who was first elected to Congress in 1993, Becerra is viewed as a reliable progressive with the savvy to navigate the halls of Congress as well as the nation's courtrooms.
"If you're going to come in and go to hospitals and go to courtrooms and go to schools" in search of family members, "I'm not going to do that," she said in an interview.
"By raising Barclay, we hope to spread the word about how amazing and life-changing assistance dogs can be for individuals with disabilities and within facilities like courtrooms giving children comfort while testifying," Girsch said.
Krasner said his move will not only "save the taxpayers money by allowing low-level defendants to maintain their freedom, but it will begin to level the economic and racial playing field in our courtrooms."
Given the attorney general often has a broad mandate over how the law is enforced, Sessions could begin to push his draconian vision of immigration reform to courtrooms and law enforcement agencies across the country.
These include at school and in places where it is deemed necessary to see somebody's face or identify them for safety reasons: at airports, in courtrooms, on public transport and at entrances to public buildings.
Some lawyers being conscripted are tax and real estate lawyers without any background in courtrooms or criminal law: "No prior experience is necessary," wrote a district judge in Lafayette in a recent plea for volunteers.
The statehouse said we couldn't restrict what kind of guns or ammunition can be carried, displayed, worn, concealed or transported, with a few very limited exceptions like courtrooms and intentional displays at official public meetings.
"He's on everybody's short list as to who they want to get for bet-the-company cases," said Richard Cullen, a onetime Virginia attorney general who has worked with, and against, Mr. Burck in courtrooms.
Public-interest advocates point to the troubling missteps with the technology — software, for example, that fails to recognize the faces of black women or crime-prediction programs used in courtrooms that discriminate against African-Americans.
But in the past few years Mr. Bouvier has been battling legal cases in courtrooms in Monaco, Paris, Singapore and New York, and has likely been facing mounting legal bills as part of that effort.
Drained by farmers, divided by treaty, feuded over in courtrooms and neglected when not pumped and drained, the Rio Grande is at once one of America's most famous rivers and one of its most abused.
The melodrama between Yoko Ono and her chauffeur, playing out in New York City courtrooms and across newspaper headlines 11 years ago, appeared to end with that two-month span of accusations, denials and threats.
Homeland security officials have denied the public and the news media access to the tent courts, but have allowed access to the courtrooms like the one in San Antonio where the judges hear the cases.
People marched purposefully down long, winding halls, through revolving doors, and on and on — ascending into the world once more at City Hall or Macy's or to the courtrooms at the Richard J. Daley Center.
I wanted to remember the thrill, albeit short-lived, of seeing this incarnation of all the entitlement accrued over nearly 8003 years of rule confined to the cage where defendants are kept in Egyptian courtrooms.
The administration's travel bans take authority out of the hands of consular officers; immigration judges worry that the Department of Justice is trying to bully them into taking a hard line against defendants in their courtrooms.
We can even believe that it is improper or racially biased against us, but we do not have the right to resist it -- not on the street; that's what courtrooms and lawyers like me are for.
When a case actually settles courts are loathe to undo it; they want the litigation out of their courtrooms, and all the better without having to actually make the final decision on who wins and loses.
Many of the cases were heard in U.S. courtrooms, either because victims of Palestinian shootings and bombings or Hezbollah rockets held American citizenship, or to target suspected militant funds held in banks in the United States.
After decades of a "war on drugs," rhetoric about incorrigible criminals, and policies that prioritize long prison sentences, the culture of criminal justice spaces – police departments, courtrooms, probation offices, and prison blocks – is dehumanizing and harsh.
Because courtrooms are one of the few spots left in the city where cellphones, cameras and other electronic devices are generally not allowed, the artists are tasked with bringing to life whatever happens inside those walls.
Mr. Trump's effort to comb law schools and courtrooms across the country for young, unfailingly conservative nominees to the federal bench resembles the campaign Mr. Reagan undertook to leave an enduring rightward imprint on the courts.
The types of arguments we once venerated — the kinds of critical-thinking dialectics that educators tell us hone the brains of students — make sense in orderly, deliberative settings, places like classrooms and courtrooms and Platonic dialogues.
Many of the young women and teenagers who spoke in the two courtrooms have told stories that have similar elements, including their abuse by a doctor they were referred to or instructed to see by coaches.
Immigration judges (who are under pressure from their boss, Attorney General Sessions, to clear their dockets) will also rely on this decision to deny asylum to Central American asylum seekers who have cases pending in their courtrooms.
They're used in hospitals and rehab centers to enforce compliance with health privacy laws, in call centers to protect sensitive customer information, in churches to focus attention on the Almighty, and in courtrooms to curb witness intimidation.
A day of inflammatory behavior by the President and his allies on Wednesday actually hinted at the depth of Trump's troubles on Capitol Hill and in courtrooms beyond instead of its apparent purpose in distracting from it.
The women have ignited a social movement demanding the release of the others: They organize social media campaigns, stage street protests, and demonstrate outside courtrooms and prisons whenever there is a hearing or a woman is released.
Mr. de Blasio's revived plan, an aide said, has the same motives: "to identify the strongest cases out of the gate" and to send them to two judges in two courtrooms in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn.
Bakke outlawed quotas but permitted the consideration of race to achieve a diverse student body; in doing so, it stifled deeper conversations in courtrooms and classrooms about why we need affirmative action and what it can achieve.
The sisters weren't long out of high school when the saga began; over the ensuing 17 years, they've spend countless hours in courtrooms, watching almost every moment of testimony and sometimes silently crying on each other's shoulders.
Ms. Harris, a former prosecutor, employs a rapid-fire questioning pace more commonly seen in courtrooms — a style that at times has her interrupting witnesses, which is frowned upon in the Senate, where decorum is still prized.
But, in workplaces, in courtrooms, at universities, on red carpets and during election campaigns, women are still expected to articulate that anger in the most bloodless way possible, in order to seem rational, likable, electable, and believable.
Mr. Dunn said that the civil liberties union was not seeking the identity of the officers, but rather details about how police administrative judges decided misconduct cases and applied the law in their courtrooms in Police Headquarters.
Almost 154 years after the end of the Civil War, the country is still quarreling — in state capitols and courtrooms, on college campuses and around town squares — over how, or whether, to commemorate the side that lost.
"By mandating three merits hearings a day the court would be placing unrealistic pressures on immigration judges, which will certainly have negative after effects on the due process rights of the foreign nationals in their courtrooms," she said.
The ruling from Judge Jon S. Tigar of the Northern District of California, which came late Monday night, is the latest in a series of rulings coming out of West Coast courtrooms against the Trump administration's immigration policy.
Republicans candidates hoping to help the party retain or expand its congressional majorities are field-testing messages focused on the benefits of tax reform, a reduction in regulations, and the appointments of conservatives to courtrooms across the country.
The couple's Clooney Foundation for Justice, set up in 2016, plans to this year launch, TrialWatch, a project to monitor trials and create an index to track which countries are using courtrooms to oppress minorities and government critics.
We have the potential to create a brighter future out of this dark history: The scales of justice are not to be found in the dusty cells of Guantanamo, but in the federal courtrooms of the United States.
Before turning to the questions about Professor Ford, I should lay some cards on the table: I spent my formative years in the federal courtrooms of New York City, not at the Sigmund Freud Theater on Capitol Hill.
In large, panoramic images of courtrooms, peopled by reporters and cameramen, where legislation shaping our lives and futures plays out, Krashes's oil paint often congeals into a hazy glare or a stuffy, clouded morass suggestive of bureaucratic inertia.
According to Simon, his team will need to successfully counter the NCAA's longstanding argument—both in courtrooms and in the court of public opinion—that allowing college athletes to be freely compensated will somehow compromise their classroom educations.
Although the holy spirit of Gregory Peck's Atticus Finch hovers over many cinematic courtrooms, movies have often seemed more satisfying when they forget order and the law and serve up justice as cold (and blood-red) as possible.
But it has declined to shutter the courtrooms, and on Thursday insisted it would continue with proceedings for detained children, despite pleas from public health experts, judges, and the union that represents attorneys with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
If you're a lord or a lady accused of a crime in Westeros, the only way you can hire someone to defend you is in a trial by combat; there are no lawyers in the courtrooms of Westeros.
Interest in the case is so intense that the proceedings will be held in a convention center in Braunschweig, near Volkswagen's headquarters — none of the local courtrooms could handle the expected crush of lawyers, plaintiffs, journalists and spectators.
Emergency rooms are saturated, first responders are stretched thin, courtrooms are flooded, the workforce is dwindling, and—due to the increasing prevalence of fentanyl—even people unknowingly exposed to opioids are at risk of harm or even death.
Criminal risk instruments are already common—and controversial—in courtrooms nationwide, but risk instrument expert Megan Stevenson told me few jurisdictions employ ones purpose-built for domestic violence, and studies suggest more general tools are poor at predicting it.
The verdict felt like a sigh of hard-fought relief, as Constand has been in and out of courtrooms with her abuser since 2005, and a long line of other women have been accusing Cosby of rape for decades.
Cameras are also banned from courtrooms in Supreme Court cases, according to an article by CNN about its own stunt, so the purpose of the sketch is to help the public understand what went on — and these accomplish that.
Roth argues that Grassley could move current bills forward, like the bipartisan bill he co-sponsored to allow cameras in federal courtrooms, to rein in the court's power by making it more open and accountable to the American people.
Steven Bochco, a celebrated television writer and producer whose sophisticated prime-time portrayals of gritty courtrooms and police station houses redefined television dramas and pushed the boundaries of onscreen vulgarity and nudity, died on Sunday in Pacific Palisades, Calif.
Now, lawyers say they expect that a federal judge will once again take up the cases originally filed in courtrooms across America, but that several years ago were consolidated into one suit in the Southern District of New York.
Last week, after the federal courthouse in Manhattan began receiving notification from a handful of prospective jurors and others that they may have been exposed to the virus, court officials took extra steps to scrub certain courtrooms, Friedland said.
But it proved the opposite; a counter-protester was killed in the melee, and many of the groups' leaders have spent the last year in and out of courtrooms on charges ranging from assault to hate crimes to murder.
The Times Magazine looks at how Donald Trump's life and career have been defined by legal battles, and at whether the attorneys who guided him through the courtrooms of New York and New Jersey know how to navigate Washington.
"Time to scrap it entirely" By openly attributing the delay to political calculations, the administration also imperils its argument in the courtrooms where its fate will likely be decided after a new round of legal challenges are filed in response.
Media outlets covering the trial have also slammed the "woefully inadequate press and public access," including the judge's decision to hold proceedings in one of the smallest courtrooms and limiting the number of seats reserved for local, national, and Australian media.
As the gender-wage-gap debate rages on in courtrooms, at pundits' tables, and on bitter Reddit threads, there's one idea that has gone unchallenged: Porn is the one industry where women benefit from better pay than their male counterparts.
When district attorneys and police departments periodically decided to mount crusades of moral purity against "vice," thousands of women were hauled into courtrooms and forced to testify against practitioners who had helped them and were now being tried for performing abortions.
Although there are plenty of positions for people with advanced language skills who want to work in domestic settings such as schools, courtrooms and hospitals, interpreters and translators may also travel frequently to make use of their marketable skills abroad.
Editorial A federal appellate ruling on Tuesday protecting the right of transgender students to use restrooms according to their gender identity is an important marker in a national debate that has prompted battles in courtrooms and legislatures across the country.
Counties grappling with rising overdoses face higher costs in emergency call volumes, medical examiner and coroner bills, and overcrowded jails and courtrooms, said Matt Chase, executive director of the National Association of Counties, which represents 3,069 county and local governments.
In contrast to President Trump's crackdown on immigration, one federal protection for immigrants has been quietly expanded in recent months: A growing number of courtrooms are providing free legal representation for detainees who have a serious mental illness or disability.
So, a quick primer: For almost a decade, starting in 1993, federal and state prosecutors besieged Microsoft in courtrooms across the nation, arguing that the company had acted in ways that were predatory and dishonest to preserve its software monopoly.
The testimony in the divorce cases I listened to could have been aired by annoyed wives in courtrooms, or living rooms, anywhere in the world: complaints about deadbeat dads; husbands who forgot to run errands on the way home from work.
DHS reportedly paid about $25 million for one of these temporary courtrooms — which is really just a series of tents built on a floodplain — even though the city of Laredo offered to lease it an office building for just $1.
A spokeswoman for Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, whose office prosecuted Nassar, has declined to say if Geddert or Twistars is under investigation An astonishing 250-plus women and girls gave statements in two Michigan courtrooms over 10 days of proceedings.
Departments were making plans this week to quarantine their own officers if needed and deciding how to "triage" essential safety functions, even as judges began to clear their courtrooms, postpone trials and restrict people who might be at risk of infection.
Still, change for women is happening -- and it's being led by women like Mateyo, Osman, and others, advocating for the enforcement of the Gender Equality Act in courtrooms and with police prosecutions, and educating young women in schools about their rights.
The Trump administration's plan to roll back critical sentencing reforms, especially for people from marginalized communities accused of low-level, nonviolent drug offenses, will lead to an even more dangerous clog in our courtrooms, which are already overworked and underfunded.
Proven supply-side policies to curb drinking, such as hefty taxes, will face an uphill battle in legislatures and courtrooms around the world, because anti-alcohol groups are no match for the legions of lobbyists hired by the booze industry.
In the Central African Republic (CAR), for instance, UN peacekeepers lament their inability to arrest criminals in the town of Kaga Bandoro because there are no holding cells to hold them, never mind courtrooms or judges to give them a fair trial.
Democrats and advocacy groups are scrambling in courtrooms and on the ground to resist efforts they say will stack the deck against minority voters likely to back Democrats in next Tuesday's elections, where control of the U.S. Congress will be at stake.
It's a public policy concern with a populist bent as well: While corporations may have unlimited dollars to hire excellent counsel to assist in their defense, it's lawyers appointed pursuant to the Sixth Amendment that protect everyday Americans in courtrooms across the country.
It also encourages action at other federal agencies like the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to expedite the permitting and approvals for energy infrastructure — something that will be hard to accomplish in the face of ever growing challenges in local communities and courtrooms.
If Republicans and Democrats work together to shift our focus in criminal justice and the president requests a robust increase in funding for legal services, we can again make good on the promise of equality and access to justice in our courtrooms.
Cases like Gerhardt's are on the front lines of a new effort in courtrooms, labs, and government agencies around the country to pin down how high is too high to drive—and how to reliably know when someone is as high as that.
But over the past month, the U.S. has brought criminal charges against every adult immigrant apprehended — a drastic policy shift that has upped the workload for defense attorneys and clogged federal courtrooms with, at times, over 75 defendants in a given hearing.
John Kaehny, the executive director of Reinvent Albany, a group that advocates for transparency in government, said the "ugly Albany on display in federal courtrooms and front pages across the state" flew in the face of the noble intentions of the nation's founders.
But the story of the sick animals continues to play out, in courtrooms — two city agencies sued the shop owners for defrauding customers — and among people who bought pets only to see them die, even after spending thousands of dollars on vet care.
As politicians have failed to deliver adequate climate policies, courtrooms have emerged as a prominent venue for advancing an agenda to limit emissions, and the Juliana case was one of a number of climate change lawsuits working their way through various US courts.
After nearly a decade of a DOJ that prided itself on reframing religious liberty as merely the "right to worship" and spending years in courtrooms across this country trying to force nuns to violate their religious convictions, Brand's comments are especially refreshing.
Steven Bochco, a celebrated television writer and producer whose sophisticated prime-time portrayals of gritty courtrooms and police station houses redefined television dramas and pushed the boundaries of onscreen vulgarity and nudity, died on Sunday in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Pacific Palisades.
Now 72 years old, he has put thrillers behind him — the high-wire stories set in courtrooms, in the White House, in countries torn by civil strife — and embarked on something else entirely: writing about politics in the age of Donald J. Trump.
But Tuesday's theater -- unfolding in courtrooms about 240 miles apart -- was more like the compelling denouement of a slow-building Netflix drama that came together in frenetic, shocking final moments that made their own statement: Truth and facts still matter in America.
Sitting outside the district courthouse — where a mural of unblinking eyes stands for transparency — Ms. Lee said that when she looked at the building now, she thought of all the molestation and rape cases that have taken place in its closed courtrooms.
In a trial that spanned three days and two courtrooms within the White Plains, New York, courthouse, Drain overheard a litany of concerns from Sears' unsecured creditors, who pointed to potential flaws in ESL's business plan and its previous failures running the retail giant.
The conviction on Thursday of Mr. Cosby, who was found guilty on three counts of aggravated indecent assault, was immediately viewed by many as a turning point in the #MeToo movement, which would tilt the balance of power and influence in courtrooms for female accusers.
So instead of debating who was "tough" on corporate criminals and who wasn't—since no one was—we should implore these would-be leaders to speak the hell up about the perversion of justice happening every day in courtrooms and foreclosure auctions across the country.
And when those companies receive research from Exponent that supports their claims — that says they or the company they insure were not at fault, for example — they often use the research to bolster their case, in courtrooms and in the court of public opinion.
One of the big problems and why it's been so hard to get arms around this is, even in California, there's so many different counties and each county has its own different, not forms, but the courtrooms have a different way of doing things.
All of which means there are more children showing up more often to federal immigration courtrooms like Judge Zagzoug's, at hearings that could determine whether they will be deported, reunited with their parents, or granted the asylum that their parents desperately want for them.
My reporting for The New York Times Magazine on the rise and fall of Leo Sharp, the day-lily farmer turned geriatric drug mule, took me to packed courtrooms, seedy stash houses, an abandoned day-lily farm and the cluttered office of overworked federal investigators.
A long-running feud between the sultan and his brother, Prince Jefri Bolkiah, unfolded in courtrooms around the world after the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s and brought attention to the prince's reputation for extravagance, including cars, mansions, mistresses and erotic statues.
""We continue to advocate for a complete closure of all courts," she said, "for two to four weeks, until the medical experts weigh in on what measures need to be taken to flatten the curve and protect all in our courtrooms from unnecessary medical risks.
The contradictions are being played out in courtrooms, in politics and in farmers' fields, on the sidewalks of Paris and in train stations from the Côte d'Azur to the northern port of Calais, where the government demolished a giant migrant camp in the fall.
Adam Zimmerman, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, said the recommendations could be used in courtrooms to strengthen plaintiffs cases and were particularly valuable because they come from experts looking out for public safety who dont have any skin in the game.
They're not any more ridiculous, and people don't like me saying this, and I know I shouldn't compare this kind of thing to the mundane, every day, total horseshit civil litigations that take place in courtrooms and in courthouse throughout the country every day.
These efforts will require a lot of work in labs, but they'll also require just as much work in boardrooms and courtrooms to figure out just how much red tape is necessary to keep those who want to go to the Great Beyond in check.
That vicious cycle has left both sides of the debate pining for Congress, not the FCC, to broker a resolution on net neutrality, so that the government's approach to internet policy doesn't change depending on which party is in power — or who prevails in federal courtrooms.
NEW YORK/TEPIC, Mexico (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A clutch of high-profile legal cases over responsibility for the effects of climate change will be fought out in courtrooms next year as claims stack up against both governments and some of the world's biggest oil and energy companies.
As Mr Mohler put it: It is both telling and reassuring that secular people, faced with moral horror as we see now in Las Vegas, can…speak of evil as a moral fact—even if they continue to deny moral facts in the classrooms and courtrooms.
The limitations will take effect at 8 pm ET, three days after the Supreme Court ruled to allow President Donald Trump to implement a modified version of his controversial executive order — a travel ban, as he's previously called it — that's been challenged in courtrooms around the country.
Lawmakers in the House debated Tuesday whether cameras should be allowed in federal courtrooms, just days after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals live streamed audio of its hearing on President Trump's executive order temporarily barring immigrants and refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries. Rep.
Amy KlobucharAmy Jean KlobucharPoll: Nearly 4 in 5 say they will consider candidates' stances on cybersecurity The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape Native American advocates question 2020 Democrats' commitment MORE (D-Minn.) are calling for cameras to be allowed in federal courtrooms.
"They did what occurs in courtrooms around America on a daily basis when the Government is in the wrong or knowingly presents perjured testimony that contributes to wrongfully convicting a person—they turn a blind eye to the truth and justice and back perjury," he said.
Recent reports detail a failure to provide lawyers in Nashville and Miami-Dade courtrooms, and in 2015, Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, held hearings on the issue, saying the right to a lawyer was frequently ignored in misdemeanor cases.
Over the next two decades, as Mr. Guzmán's infamy grew and he became known simply by his nickname — El Chapo, or Shorty — the American authorities would charge him seven more times in courtrooms in Brooklyn, Chicago, Miami and other cities where his sprawling drug network had wreaked havoc.
Starting this month, those charged with possession of a firearm will be sent to one of two courtrooms in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, where two judges, Suzanne M. Mondo and Cassandra M. Mullen, will preside over arraignments, indictments and trials in hundreds of gun arrests each year.
Trump administration officials have often described these as a necessary evil; they say it's safer for agents to take into custody immigrants who are already in prisons or jails, but that if "sanctuary" jurisdictions refuse to help out federal agents, they'll be forced to go into neighborhoods and courtrooms.
That line of defence has echoed across courtrooms since Hayes, a former UBS and Citigroup trader convicted last August, first told a London court that he had been "thrown under the bus" by two $50 billion banks and a posse of authorities for just doing his job really well.
The overhaul is unfolding behind the scenes in Washington at agencies like the Health and Human Services Department, where new rules about birth control are being drafted, and in federal courtrooms, where the Justice Department has shifted gears in more than a dozen Obama-era cases involving social issues.
Mr. Lombard's admission that his unsympathetic client made for a poor defendant — with "eyes like a dead fish" — leads into a denunciation of both the death penalty and the role of public opinion ("a prostitute that shouldn't be allowed in courtrooms," as Mr. Lombard puts it) in the trial.
This reminds me of a trial I once monitored of a Chinese journalist in Beijing: The proceedings were held in a majestic court building with high ceilings, plush courtrooms, crisp microphones and attentive security officers, all overseen by solemn judges — everything a justice system might want, except justice.
The overhaul is unfolding behind the scenes in Washington at agencies like the Health and Human Services Department, where new rules about birth control are being drafted, and in federal courtrooms, where the Justice Department has shifted gears in more than a dozen Obama-era cases involving social issues.
PHILADELPHIA — The Trump administration has brought a man suspected of belonging to Al Qaeda to the United States to face trial in federal court, backing off its hard-line position that terrorism suspects should be sent to the naval prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, rather than to civilian courtrooms.
Courtrooms see their fair share of drama, but Raisman's blistering speech deserves to be examined in detail, both as a searing takedown of the man who assaulted her and as a call to action to fix the broken system that allowed Nassar's prolific abuse to occur for so long.
We sometimes forget that these hearings are open to the public (most of the time you'll find the courtrooms largely empty) and the conversations documented in The Courtroom Artist Residency Report series reveal how much we could learn about the American criminal justice system if we physically participated.
"In much the same way that C-SPAN fostered a greater understanding of the legislative process and improved transparency in Congress, allowing cameras in federal courtrooms would contribute to a better understanding of, and appreciation for, the American judicial system," Grassley said in a statement last week announcing the bill.
You can expect the Justice Department to keep arguing, as it has in all of the courtrooms where the policy is under scrutiny, that judges may only look at the face of the order to decide whether it is discriminatory – an argument that at least one trial judge found persuasive.
But Tchen and other attorneys who represent victims of sexual abuse are still fighting a much larger battle to change how sexual assault claims are litigated as they try cases in courtrooms where judges and juries still consider firsthand witnesses and physical evidence the only way to corroborate an alleged assault.
Serial says that it choose Cleveland because "they were given extraordinary access to record inside courtrooms, judges' chambers, back hallways, and attorneys' offices," and used their time to look at everything from drug possession to "the most serious felonies," and will examine just how the courts work to mete out justice.
Though the viability of bite mark evidence has regularly been challenged by both legal experts and forensic scientists — in 2009, the National Academy of Sciences released a report warning that there was very little scientific basis to bite analysis — the evidence has been readily permitted in US courtrooms for 50 years.
Though the viability of bite mark evidence has regularly been challenged by both legal experts and forensic scientists — in 22000, the National Academy of Sciences released a report warning that there was very little scientific basis to bite analysis — the evidence has been readily permitted in US courtrooms for 50 years.
Just minutes apart, in courtrooms in New York and outside Washington, DC, two of Trump's closest aides—his longtime personal lawyer and his former campaign chairman—became felons, as the former pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges, and the latter was found guilty by a jury on eight other charges.
In their forthcoming book The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South, journalist Radley Balko of the Washington Post and Innocence Project lawyer and Ole Miss law professor Tucker Carrington show how the duo peddled junk science in courtrooms across the state.
"We talk a lot about Donald Trump because he is the person in front of us, but start looking at all the people who believe in these ideas and they are sitting in our classrooms, they are in our courtrooms, and they are pastors of our churches," Ms. Powell, 30, said.
This means everyone had a 50-year or longer sentence to try and make it through, making these the most heinous criminals outside of death row—or more likely, in Texas, people who refused to plea bargain because they foolishly believed some fading ghost of Lady Justice still haunted courtrooms.
But as the debate over Mr. Trump's action shifts to courtrooms, legal experts warned that its fate may turn less on such high constitutional principle and more on complex legal issues — from whether plaintiffs can establish that the case is properly before the courts, to how to interpret several statutes.
"Because microaggressions are often communicated through language, it is very important to pay attention to how we talk, especially in the workplace and other social institutions like classrooms, courtrooms, and so on," Christine Mallinson, professor of language, literacy, and culture at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, told Business Insider.
Nassar, once a celebrated sports physician for the USAG national team and Michigan State University, is serving an effective life sentence on charges of child pornography and sexual misconduct in both federal and state courtrooms after more than 150 women and girls said he sexually abused them over the past two decades.
The financial claims in those cases would then shift to the supervision of a U.S. bankruptcy judge, rather than being scattered in courtrooms across the country, all vying for the first — and likely largest — chunk of a limited pot of settlement money, which could be as high as tens of billions of dollars.
"As the battle for reproductive rights unfolds at the ballot box, in statehouses, and courtrooms across this country, there is no group of elected officials better positioned to lead the fight for our rights than state Attorneys General," said Ellen Rosenblum, the group's co-chair and Oregon attorney general, in a statement.
In the Bronx, she said, ICE agents tend to cluster around misdemeanor courtrooms, while others at the City Council hearing testified to arrests being made in arraignments, the earliest step in the criminal process from which only the most innocuous people are released, a practice attorneys said they never saw before February of this year.
Trump Lawyers fight — occasionally in courtrooms, but mostly on TV. It didn't matter that Kasowitz isn't known for criminal defense — until recently, his claim to legal fame was that he negotiated the settlement that saved the maker of Chesterfield cigarettes from financial ruin — any more than it mattered that Goldberg had never handled a divorce.
Schiff thought of the statements as something like the opening arguments he used to make as a prosecutor in Los Angeles courtrooms: an opportunity to zoom out and situate the granular details that juries were about to hear in the bigger picture of the case, focusing their attention on the story he wanted those details to tell.
The union that represents them sent a letter to Santoro on Monday asking for guidance on best practices to avoid the virus's spread and how to prevent the backlog of cases from piling up in the event that the courts had to be shut down; the union also circulated the CDC flyers for judges to post in their courtrooms.
In immigration courtrooms in New York and San Francisco Tuesday, large numbers of judges stayed home from work as their union announced that a judge in Denver had symptoms of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, and in Atlanta an attorney tested positive for the virus — just one day after he appeared in a crowded courtroom.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads ROCKLAND, Maine — As the prospect of a controversial wall looms on the U.S.-Mexican border, as immigrants and refugees are caught in an ever-expanding limbo, and as ICE stakes out courtrooms, it is unsurprising that American writers and artists have begun incorporating the concepts of "borders" and "boundaries" into their work.
The debate over whether the FBI should be allowed to require Apple to help it retrieve files off of encrypted iPhones rages on in tech circles, courtrooms, and on Capitol Hill (where it has made for some entertaining hearings), it's still an esoteric topic that, in the wrong hands, would either be brutally boring or highly sensationalized on a fictional show.
The commission "has taken a giant step in purging unscientific and unreliable bite-mark evidence from courtrooms nationwide," said M. Chris Fabricant, director of strategic litigation for the Innocence Project, which had urged the commission to investigate the topic, including the case of a man who spent 28 years in prison based largely on bite identifications that were later discredited.
Now, rather than the catch-and-release approach to deportations of prior administrations, where detainees were taken back to their country of origin or released while they awaited a hearing, migrants apprehended at the border are taken to criminal court — a move that has dramatically increased the workload for attorneys, crowded courtrooms to capacity, and overwhelmed immigration judges and courthouse staffs.
Judge Dana Leigh Marks, whose court in San Francisco remains open despite a local order to shelter in place, told Insider that little has changed since and the National Association of Immigration Judges, where she serves as president emerita, last week called for her courtroom — and all 60-plus immigration courtrooms that still remain open — to be shuttered during the coronavirus pandemic.
The F.B.I.'s response was to vehemently disagree, the Obama Department of Justice basically replied, "Thanks, no thanks," and the professional association for the nation's district attorneys criticized the report for its insufficient attention to "the ancient debate over precisely what constitutes 'science' " while asserting that the final arbiter of good science should be lawyers and courtrooms, not scientists and laboratories.
If the alleged victim decided that they did not want to file a report (as the majority of women do), or if the police determined that there was insufficient evidence to secure a conviction or even prosecution (very few rape cases ever end up in courtrooms, and far less end in a conviction), then universities had zero obligations towards the complainant.
So now, instead of just requiring municipal employees to "not ask" about immigration status when dealing with lawful citizens, like victims of crime, policies now include prohibiting police in these jurisdictions from cooperating with Immigration & Customs Enforcement agents, making the appropriate notifications regarding illegal aliens in legitimate police custody, and even allowing sworn federal agents from responding to courtrooms where illegal immigrants are facing criminal charges.
I listened to the unlikely pairing of Van Jones of #cut2628 and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich explain that, while the fiscal waste of mass incarceration attracted many conservatives to the issue of reform, many on the right were drawn to justice reform by its moral imperative to rehabilitate and re-assimilate our fellow Americans as they exited prisons or courtrooms with felony convictions.
Acosta, who was six feet tall and over 200 pounds, was hard to miss when he showed up at Los Angeles courtrooms in colorful ties and lived his life with as much novelistic flair as the characters in his novels — The Autobiography of The Brown Buffalo and The Revolt of the Cockroach People— which are filled with poetic narratives of bad drug trips, drunken adventures and sexual escapades.
The accusations in The Manila Times, propagated by Dante Ang, the paper's owner and publisher and a fierce Duterte supporter, were part of the latest and perhaps most theatrical attempt to put Rappler out of business and discredit Ressa and possibly send her to jail; three months later, she would go on trial in six separate courtrooms in Metro Manila and face the frightening prospect of spending decades in prison.

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