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During the past five years, the Maryland State Police found that two of its officers used excessive force in interactions with citizens, data from the agency shows. One officer resigned. The other was suspended without pay. Neither made headlines, at least in part because journalists and the public had no access to records documenting alleged misconduct. That’s changing under a new state law ...

Michael F. Barry (L) dean of South Texas College of Law Houston and Benny Agosto Jr.(R), of Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Agosto, Aziz & Stogner. Courtesy photos What You Need to Know South Texas College of Law Houston graduate and his wife give $3 million to fund a new diversity center. The funder, Benny Agosto, managing partner of a Houston trial firm, hopes the center will be a model for...

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) — On Wednesday, Fresno police Chief Paco Balderrama and law enforcement agencies from Fresno County will hold a news conference to kick off the annual “Operation Christmas Presence.” The effort, in its 24th year, aims to reduce crime in the Fresno area during the holiday season.

A Long Beach Waste Management truck picks up recycling in the Lakewood Village neighborhood, Wednesday, July 7, 2021. Photo by Brandon Richardson. The Long Beach City Council gave preliminary approval to an ordinance that will change how trash is collected in the city in the years to come. The program is expected to increase monthly bills for Long Beach residents and will come with some big c...

Credit: MikeDotta/Shutterstock.com What You Need to Know Steptoe & Johnson attorneys secured freedom for a teen tried as an adult in Maryland. A Foley & Lardner team secured the release in California of a minor convicted as an adult. Bryan Cave helped convince a judge to overturn a 1979 triple murder conviction of 62-year-old Missouri inmate. Years of pro bono representation by seve...

Forgeries and false filings are serious offenses. But prosecutors say Ohio attorney Sean Porter managed to up the stakes on phony filings with a kidnapping via bureaucracy. According to the indictment, Porter made a number of false filings in efforts to defraud the court — there are 46 counts in total — but none as serious as when he allegedly forged a journal entry that resulted in a child b...

Employee allegedly moved more than 12,000 files Documents contained information related to future drugs Pfizer Inc. is alleging a “soon-to-be-former employee” misappropriated thousands of files, including documents with trade secrets related to its Covid-19 vaccine, in a California federal court lawsuit. Chun Xiao (Sherry) Li allegedly uploaded more than 12,000 files including “scores” of d...

Alabama WFF Lt. Greg Elrod teaches officers from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission man-tracking skills.(Photo courtesy of Carter Hendrix, Arkansas Game and Fish) By David Rainer, Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources In 2017, the Law Enforcement Section of the Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries (WFF) Division began providing specialized training for its new recru...

Image from Shutterstock. A Kansas City, Missouri, man who spent 43 years in prison for a triple murder has been released after a judge ruled Tuesday that he was wrongfully convicted. Kevin Strickland, a 62-year-old Black man, had been convicted by an all-white jury based on testimony from the sole survivor, who later said she was mistaken and asked the Midwest Innocence Project for help. The ...

On 29 October 2021, the UK government introduced The Companies (Strategic Report) (Climate-related Financial Disclosure) Regulations 20211 (the “Draft Regulations”), which would, once in force, amend the Companies Act of 2006 and require mandatory climate-related financial disclosures by large UK registered companies and financial institutions. The adoption of the Draft Regulations would make...