Criminal Law

Juvenile Court Judge Allegedly Sentenced Youths to Juvenile Corrections Facilities Selected for Personal Gain
A former juvenile court judge in Pennsylvania retired in disgrace about two years ago. Part of his job was sentencing youth offenders. There are many reasons to favor one juvenile correctional facility over another with respect to any particular juvenile offender’s circumstances and needs...

Siegel on the Supreme Court and Juvenile Sentencing
David M. Siegel (New England Law - Boston) has posted The Supreme Court and the Sentencing of Juveniles in the United States: Reaffirming the Distinctiveness of Youth (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinics of North America, Vol...

Supreme Court Juvenile Life Sentencing Update
Our post last Monday about the U.S. Supreme Court's agreeing to hear the two Florida juvenile life sentence cases in determining whether life in prison is an acceptable consequence for juvenile offenders, has more information that we'd like to pass along in anticipation of the Court's consideration this Fall...

Minnesota community trying juve sentencing circles
This local story, headlined "Juvenile sentencing circles take aim at youth crime rates," describes at length a sentencing innovation being tried in Minnesota: With the hope of solving high juvenile crime rates in Nobles County, Juvenile Restorative Justice Agent Erin...

Sentencing guidelines promulgated by Korea's supreme court
This editorial from The Korea Times, headlined "Eight Major Crimes Subject to Tougher Punishment," provides a window into how similar sentencing issues get discussed and debated around the world...

New paper on blended juve sentencing
Now appearing on SSRN is this interesting new piece providing an empircal perspective on a "new juvenile sentencing innovation, blended sentencing." The piece is titled "Who Gets a Second Chance? An Investigation of Ohio's Blended Juvenile Sentence," and here is...

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (Supreme Court): Does Obama meet the constitutional requirements to be President

Unwed Fathers' Rights in Adoption
Landmark Cases in Adoption Law Shape Law with respect to Unwed Fathers

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

Juvenile Disabled
Kings County pays $4 million in inmate hanging settlement.

Wal-Mart
Faces Class Action over Return Policy

DirecTV and Best Buy
allegedly failed to inform customers that they must return their receivers upon cancellation.

Ebay Fined
French Court Sets Fine at $61 Million

Personal Injury
Appeals Court Upholds Congressional Legislation

Tomato Salmonella
Sheetz Convenience Stores agrees to confidential out-of-court settlement with food poisoning victim.