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...
Bipartisan Bill Seeks to Provide Off-Ramp for Those Subject to Supervised Release Recently a bill was introduced, the Safer Supervision Act, in both the Senate by Senators Chris Coons (D–Del.) and John Cornyn (T–Texas) and in the House by Reps. Wesley Hunt (R–Texas)...
Legislation Seeking to Regulate Delta-8 THC Stalls in Illinois House of Representatives A recent bill proposed to regulate the sellers of delta-8 THC, CBD and other hemp-derived products more stringently failed to pass earlier this week after the bill, which passed...
New Task Force Announced to Focus on Healthcare The Department of Justice recently unveiled a new task force aiming to root out monopolies and collusion in the healthcare market, including shaping policy decisions, conducting investigations, and, when warranted,...
