Criminal Law

U.S. Sentencing Commission Preliminary Crack Cocaine Retroactivity Data Report
U.S. Sentencing Commission Preliminary Crack Cocaine Retroactivity Data Report, August 2008 Data As part of its ongoing mission, the United...

Blog Scan
U.S. Sentencing Commission On Retroactivity of Crack Amendment: Thanks to Douglas Berman at Sentencing Law and Policy for his post on the U.S. Sentencing Commission's release of data on the retroactive application of the crack amendment...

EDNY Judge Denies Full-Blown Resentencing Under Crack Retroactivity Amendment
In what appears to be a case of first impression in this circuit, a district court in the EDNY has rejected a defendant's request for a de novo resentencing under the crack retroactivity amendment (which would have allowed the defendant...

Crack retroactivity Puerto Rican style
PRACDL posts the District of Puerto Rico?s administrative order dealing with the implementation of the Crack Retroactivity Guideline in the District of Puerto Rico.

Sentencing Commission makes crack cocaine amendment retroactive
From the Commission's press release:The United States Sentencing Commission unanimously voted today to give retroactive effect to a recent amendment to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines that reduces penalties for crack cocaine offenses...

"Crack Cocaine: Resentencing Goes Smoothly"
Posted by Sabrina Pacifici: “Follow up to previous postings on retroactivity for sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine, from The Third...

T-mobile data plans, T-mobile, t-mobile phones
T-Mobile Faces Class Action over Limited Unlimited Data Plans

AT&T Faces Class Action over Excessive Data Usage Charges
AT&T Faces Class Action over Excessive Data Usage Charges

Seroquel
Data on Diabetes Buried

Nursing Home Abuse
New Data Made Public

Xolair
FDA Issues Early Communication over Safety Data

Electronic Data Systems Corp.
allegedly failed to pay employee overtime.