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The Supreme Court on Friday said shareholders cannot sue companies for fraud if they fail to disclose negative trends about the companies’ bottom line.  Justice Sonia Sotomayor, an Obama appointee, wrote the opinion for the unanimous court. She said a hedge fund could not sue the company it invested in for not including certain information on […]

A new state audit says that Washington police agencies could be more transparent about the process of seizing assets like cars, cash or guns in the course of criminal investigations and clearer about how people can get that property back. Police, in a practice known as civil asset forfeiture, can seize items they believe were […]

 A rule requiring gun dealers to obtain federal licenses and conduct background checks regardless of where they sell guns has been finalized and will soon go into effect, the U.S. Justice Department announced on Thursday. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Aimed at closing the so-called “gun show loophole,” the rule clarifies what it means to be “engaged […]

The Pennsylvania Senate is advancing a bill that, if passed by the full Legislature, could result in the deportation of more immigrants who enter the country illegally.  The bill, SB 1127, would require Pennsylvania district attorneys to notify US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, about any undocumented immigrants arrested in Pennsylvania.  As it stands, the […]

Two house Democrats officially introduced legislation to change the name of a Miami prison to the “Donald J. Trump Federal Correctional Institution”.  The proposal is in response to some Florida Republicans who saw fit to put the former president’s name on an airport.  Representatives Gerry Connolly, from Vermont, Jared Moskowitz of Florida , and John Garamendi of California, are […]

A Canadian paternity DNA company knowingly gave out inaccurate tests that identified the wrong father, destroying families in the process, a new report has claimed.  Viaguard Accu-Metrics sold and delivered home tests to check the identity of a baby’s father over the span of a decade through online stores charging up to $1,000.  Families who […]

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem faced another ban from a Native American reservation in her state this week. She claimed that drug cartels were using Indigenous land as a means to carry out criminal activities. During a town hall meeting in March, Noem, a Republican who was once considered a possible running mate for former […]

Two federal judges in Colorado have now taken the rare step of calling for Congress to roll back the U.S. Supreme Court’s broad limitations on suing federal officials for money when they violate plaintiffs’ constitutional rights. U.S. District Court Senior Judge Christine M. Arguello, in dismissing the claims of an incarcerated man who alleged federal prison […]

A copy of the tentative contract between the city of Seattle and the Seattle Police Officers Guild (SPOG) obtained by PubliCola includes raises of 23 percent (retroactive to January 6, 2021 and active through 2023) and offers only minor changes to existing accountability measures in return. “After my quick read of it, there are barely any changes […]