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MINNEAPOLIS – Acting United States Attorney Charles J. Kovats today announced the recipients of the third annual U.S. Attorney’s Office “Excellence in the Pursuit of Justice” Awards. Law enforcement officials from five agencies are being honored for their outstanding work and exceptional contributions in the pursuit of truth and justice. “I am honored to present the “Excellence in the Pursuit...

Cody Marble (left) of Conrad, exonerated on a rape conviction after 14 years in the Montana prison system, speaks last year before an interim committee drafting a bill to compensate those wrongly convicted. He's the first person to file a claim under the new law. HELENA — Cody Marble, exonerated in 2017 after spending more than a decade behind bars on a Missoula rape conviction, is the first ...

Kevin Drennan. (Photo: Kevin Sanders for New Jersey Globe) OPINION Well, what a week we had in Trenton. I have been here for more than 20 years, and Thursday was the first time I saw legislators decide to be truly uncivil. First, let’s think about civility. Civility is formal politeness in behavior and speech. As we tie that to the United States Constitution and the First Amendment, we know t...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Spurred by a recent run of large-scale smash-and-grab robberies, prosecutors and retailers are pushing back on assertions by California's governor and attorney general that they have enough tools to combat retail theft in the wake of a voter-approved easing of related laws. "We cannot function as a society where we have told people over and over again that there is no con...

Virginia Yeoman and Paris Bullock | Law Office of Laurie M. Wasserman  Maryland Daily Record

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Spurred by a recent run of large-scale smash-and-grab robberies, prosecutors and retailers are pushing back on assertions by California’s governor and attorney general that they have enough tools to combat retail theft in the wake of a voter-approved easing of related laws. “We cannot function as a society where we have told people over and over again that there is n...

Laura E. Burrows | Burrows Haviland Law  Maryland Daily Record

BEAUMONT, Texas — The Department of Justice, FBI, U.S. Postal Inspection Service and five other federal law enforcement agencies announced the completion of the fourth annual Money Mule Initiative, which targeted networks of individuals through which international fraudsters obtain proceeds of fraud schemes. These individuals, sometimes referred to as money mules, receive money from fraud vic...

BENSALEM, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased Alfi, Inc. (“Alfi” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: ALF, ALFIW): (a) common stock or warrants pursuant and/or traceable to the Registration Statement issued in connection with the Company’s May 2021 initial public offering (the “IPO” or “Offering”)...

Today, the Council of Europe released the results of its vote on a human rights case in Turkey. In October 2017, Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala was jailed on spurious charges, acquitted of the first indictment, and immediately sent back to jail on another charge. In December 2019, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in Kavala v. Turkey that he was abusively detained and should be re...