Court Said In-House Administrative Proceedings Violate Jury Trial Rights In another decision reached this week, the Supreme Court ruled against the Security and Exchange Commission (”SEC”) in a dispute over the ability of the federal agency to use in-house judicial...
Ruling Narrows the Scope of Federal Bribery Law As we covered earlier this year, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the appeal of an Indiana mayor who was convicted in 2019 on federal bribery charges after he received $13,000 from a trucking company for consulting fees...
Many Federal Agencies See Drop in Number of Cases Prosecuted Since Pandemic Chicago and many other metropolitan areas around the United States are expected to see a sharp decline in the number of federal prosecutions that are tied to various federal law enforcement...
Court Rules Defendants Have Right to Confront Forensic Lab Technicians As we’ve previously covered, there are always potential issues when forensic evidence is introduced at trial. Last week, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling that strengthened a...
Court Upholds Restrictions on Gun Possession for Domestic Abusers As we previously anticipated, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in a case which tested that the limits of the Second Amendment right to bear arms. At issue was the federal restriction that bans gun...
Charges Brought Against Illinois Resident for Dissemination and Possession of Child Pornography by AG’s Office Earlier this week, the Illinois Attorney General’s Office under Kwame Raoul announced several charges against a Brighton man, David Crane, in the Macoupin...
US Supreme Court Rules Devices Used on Semi-Automatic Guns are Legal In an update to our previous coverage over the United States Supreme Court’s handling of federal gun laws, the Court recently struck down a Trump-era federal ban on “bump stocks.” Bump stocks are...
Virginia Court Rules Police Use of the Technology Unconstitutional A Virginia Court recently ruled that a local police department’s use of automatic license plate readers was a Fourth Amendment violation against unreasonable search and seizures and as a result...
Misconduct Investigations of Chicago Police Officers to be Made Public About two weeks ago the Chicago Police Department announced a forthcoming new policy that will make all misconduct investigations into individual officers public for the first time. This is a...
Brokers Blamed for Rampant PPP Loan Fraud but So Far Have Largely Evaded Punishment In an update to our previous coverage of Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) Loan Frauds, further investigations into allegations of fraud/abuse in connection with COVID-19 relief...
