• Governors Spotlight: Film Safety Protocols, Gubernatorial Emergency Powers, Transgender Restrictions & More

    NM Gov Demands New Film Safety Protocols : In the wake of a tragic accidental shooting on the set of a movie being filmed near Santa Fe, New Mexico, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) said Hollywood needs to adopt strict new safety protocols to protect workers...
  • State v. Countryman

    Defendant Darla Countryman and her husband Ray Countryman left Des Moines in their pickup truck and drove to Nebraska where they stole a car. The next day Darla was found aimlessly wandering, confused and incoherent, in Morris County, Kansas, on a farm...
  • Strickland v. Medlen

    The owners' dog escaped from their yard and was picked up by animal control. The animal shelter hung a "hold for owner" tag on the dog's cage to alert employees that the owners were coming and to ensure that he was not euthanized. Despite...
  • Nabors Well Servs. v. Romero

    Aydee Romero, an adult passenger, was killed in an accident involving a Nabors Well Services, Ltd. transport truck and a Chevrolet Suburban with eight occupants. A responding state trooper wrote in his report that all occupants were unrestrained except...
  • Nabors Well Servs. v. Romero

    Aydee Romero, an adult passenger, was killed in an accident involving a Nabors Well Services, Ltd. transport truck and a Chevrolet Suburban with eight occupants. A responding state trooper wrote in his report that all occupants were unrestrained except...
  • In re Facebook, Inc.

    Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm, used personal information from millions of Facebook accounts to send targeted political messages during the 2016 presidential campaign. The firm obtained this information from Aleksandr Kogan,...
  • Leeke v. Timmerman

    South Carolina prison inmates who claimed that they had been unnecessarily beaten by prison guards during a prison uprising sought criminal arrest warrants against the guards from a state court magistrate. After the magistrate expressed his intent to...
  • Okla. City v. Tuttle

    A police officer shot and killed the administratrix's husband outside of a bar. Thereafter, the administratrix brought a lawsuit against the officer and the municipality under 42 U.S.C.S. § 1983, alleging that her husband was deprived of his...
  • Estrada v. Becker

    In 2012, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) issued the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals memorandum ("DACA Memo"), which encouraged government officials not to enforce federal immigration laws against...
  • Campaign for Fiscal Equity, Inc. v. State

    The fundamental value of education is embedded in the Education Article of the New York State Constitution by this simple sentence: "The legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free common schools, wherein all the...