Criminal Law

Shaming a child and the wisdom() of parental punishment
As detailed in this local Florida story, headlined "Teen Forced To Carry 'I Am Stupid' Sign After Speeding Ticket," a mother recently made headlines by imposing a shaming punishment on her reckless son...

An Empirical Analysis of Street-Level Prostitution
Combining transaction-level data on street prostitutes with ethnographic observation andofficial police force data, we analyze the economics of prostitution in Chicago. A prostitute is more likely to have sex with a police officer than to get officially arrested by one...

To reduce prostitution, cities try shaming clients
Tired of arresting and re-arresting prostitutes, police in communities across the nation are increasingly targeting their clients with an old technique ? shame. A two-year study for the U...

Shaming the poor
"Shaming the children of poor people for daring to receive a free lunch is tantamount to saying to them, well, if you had been smart, you wouldn?t have been born to poor people in the first place," writes John Scalzi in his post Shaming the Poor at Whatever...

The Latest in Shaming Punishments
Leave it to Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio to come up with yet another shaming punishment. Forcing male inmates to wear pink underwear, and putting teens on chain gangs to bury the dead wasn't enough...

Narrative and Sexual Consent: Compulsory Prostitution in Progressive era New York City
Abstract: This paper analyzes testimony about forced prostitution voiced in New York City?s Court of General Sessions from 1908 to 1915. During these years, the problem of coercive prostitution ? commonly called ?white slavery? ? received an unprecedented amount of attention from journalists, politicians, and anti-vice activists...

DC Madame Phone List
Telephone Records of Deborah Jeane Palfrey's Escort Service (Pamela Martin and Associates)

$8 Million from Rezulin Class Action
Will Go to Medical Research

Fidelity Management & Research Company
401k / ERISA Stock Fraud

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

Soliris Patent
Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. agrees to pay the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation a $10 million patent infringement settlement.

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