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May 15, 2017 |

Dr. Bull and the Jury's Role: Rules of Evidence

As the curtain on Bull's first season starts to close, certain subplots are coalescing. This week, prosecutors finally brought charges against Dr. Bull's in-house counsel, Benny, for allegedly fabricating evidence while working at the District Attorney's office nearly a decade ago.
5 minute read
May 12, 2017 |

Plaintiffs Lawyer Asks Justices for Access to IME Psych Exams

So-called independent medical exams are "far from independent," and so attorneys or their associates should be allowed to accompany their injured clients during those exams, a plaintiffs attorney argued before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on May 9.
6 minute read
May 11, 2017 |

'Echo Is Not Spying On You,' Amazon Lawyer Declares

Months after Apple faced off with the FBI over an order to unlock an iPhone connected to the San Bernardino shooting investigation, Amazon.com Inc. was thrust center-stage in its own digital privacy debate when Arkansas prosecutors demanded data from a murder suspect's Echo device. Amazon initially objected to the demands last year, only to later grant access after the suspect consented to the release of the data. Speaking Thursday at a Consumer Federation of America conference in Washington, an in-house lawyer at Amazon stated flatly: "No, Echo is not spying on you."
8 minute read
May 10, 2017 |

Jury's Still Out: 3 Ways Technology Is Trying to Aid in Jury Selection

There are some new developments in technology aimed at helping attorneys maneuver through voir dire. They're not all particularly helpful.
9 minute read
May 08, 2017 |

Seafood Restaurant Off Hook in Case Over Flesh-Eating Bacteria

A restaurant is not liable to a patron whose left leg was amputated after she contracted a flesh-eating bacteria from eating raw shellfish there, a federal judge in Camden ruled.
6 minute read
May 05, 2017 |

Judge Jettisons Ankle-Monitor Evidence From Gang Case

If you're out on parole, an ankle bracelet with a GPS tracker may not be the ideal accessory to wear when meeting with suspected gang members. But in this case a judge said federal agents went too far by using the data without a warrant.
9 minute read
May 02, 2017 |

Cross-Border Litigation: The Devil in the Details

Globalization has created new challenges for companies threatened by, or embroiled in, cross-border litigation. Assets and evidence, in the form of witnesses and documents, may be spread across multiple countries and legal systems. Judicial attitudes and procedures in these systems can vary as much as national political relations.
22 minute read
May 02, 2017 |

Machine-Created Evidence: A Myth of Objectivity?

Bias can easily be an inherent part in machine-created evidence, experts say.
9 minute read
May 01, 2017 |

State ACLU Seeks Police-Commissioned Racial Profiling Traffic Study

The ACLU of Connecticut filed a Freedom of Information Act request April 26 to all Connecticut police departments seeking every alternative, police-commissioned study of traffic stop data.
4 minute read
May 01, 2017 |

Shaken Baby Syndrome Remains 'Accepted Scientific Theory' in NY Courts, Judge Rules

The Brooklyn district attorney's office may present evidence that an eight-month-old suffered injuries attributable to shaken baby syndrome, despite the defense's claim that the diagnosis has lost acceptance within the scientific community, a judge ruled.
5 minute read

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