An excerpt from the >16,000-word opinion written by Commissioner Paul Stein in Abasciano v. Boston Police Dep’t, decided last month by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Civil Service Commission, though just posted on Westlaw: The substantive issue presented in this appeal is whether certain tweets sent by the Appellant on January 6, 2021, while attending the […]
In the first decision of its kind in Nevada, a judge ruled last week that state law enforcement can’t evade stricter requirements for seizing cash and property by partnering with the federal government. The plaintiff in that lawsuit, a Marine veteran named Stephen Lara, had nearly $90,000 in cash seized from him in 2021 by […]
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Igal Ness on Unsplash ‘/> “So every John is a sex trafficker?” asked Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Scott L. Kafker in the courtroom last week. “Yes, your honor,” replied Plymouth County Assistant District Attorney Julianne Campbell. The case—Commonwealth v. Garafalo—represents the latest assault on civil liberties and basic language to be carried out in the […]
The California National Guard arrived in burn zones Friday to assist local police “with traffic control and critical infrastructure protection,” Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said. Since then, the National Guard has been helping to enforce a curfew from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. in and around Pacific Palisades and Altadena—the two neighborhoods most […]
Today the Supreme Court denied certiorari in Sunoco LP v. Honolulu and Shell PLC v. Honolulu, two petitions from oil companies seeking High Court intervention in a state-law-based climate case in Hawaii. Unlike with prior cert denials in climate tort cases, no justice indicated that he or she supported certiorari. On the one hand, this cert denial […]
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As I noted on Friday, the Supreme Court accepted certiorari to hear an appointments clause challenge to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force in Becerra v. Braidwood Management. This task force is the entity that determines which preventative treatments must be covered by health insurance without requiring any co-payment by the insured under the Affordable […]