Connecticut Law Tribune Editorial Board

Connecticut Law Tribune Editorial Board

October 02, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

FOI FYI: Progress Made Against Burying Unsolved Crimes in 'Open Investigations'

Associate Justice Raheem Mullins, who wrote for the high court, noted that eventually, cold cases benefit from a fresh pair of eyes, or even "millions of eyes" in our age of the Internet and crowdsourcing. For all the cases where accidental release of facts derailed a prosecution, there are likely as many where more open public information helped solve the matter.

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September 23, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Shockingly Unfair: Electric Rate Payers Deserve a Better Explanation From PURA

PURA agreed that the impact of its earlier decision on ratepayers "created justifiable concern" but decided to kneel and run out the clock.

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September 23, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

A Time and Money Saver: CT Should Adopt NY Evidentiary Rule

The producing party likely knows whether a document is authentic. Any additional requirements amount to a waste of time.

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September 19, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

State v. Washington Lives, But Does Not Extend

What a panel of three judges does in the context of deciding a murder case remains sacrosanct.

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September 09, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Crisis in Connecticut: Our Growing Wage Complaint Backlog

The taxpayers of Connecticut shouldn't have to foot the bill for wage recovery efforts when malfeasant employers are to blame.

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August 23, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

State-Based Assault Weapons Bans: There's Room for Hope

Given courts' propensity to entertain these suits, it sometimes feels as if Justice Scalia's oft-cited caveat in Heller—that the Second Amendment "is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose"—has been reduced to dicta.

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August 22, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

A Lament for the Unhoused and the Supreme Court's Moral Failing

The facial neutrality of Grants Pass's anti-camping ordinance is artificial, since it effectively criminalizes sleeping in the only location available to the city's homeless population.

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August 19, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Connecticut Should Skip ABA's Proposed Amendments to Rule 1.16

Aside from the amended rule's lack of clarity, it appears to address a problem that by and large does not exist in Connecticut.

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August 14, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Lawyers Who Spread The Big Lie Deserve to Face Consequences

While a visionary restatement of democratic values is always welcome, we are most encouraged by the ABA Task Force's prioritization of concrete action steps, including rapid response teams.

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July 25, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Stolen Guns and Accountability – Luck of the Draw?

Connecticut should look to New York for guidance on gun-store premises liability laws.

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