Some gun restrictions that are commonly in place around the country include background checks, restrictions on gun ownership for felons, and gun licensing. The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) is a phone system that a Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL) calls to do a background check on people who... Read More »
Arkansas state police are facing a lawsuit after one of their own caused the vehicle of a pregnant woman to flip over during a traffic stop. On July 9, 2020, Nicole Harper, 38, was driving 84 miles per hour in a 70 mph zone along U.S. Highway 167 in Pulaski... Read More »
A Department of Defense employee, Randolph Stanley, 42, has been charged with student aid fraud after he applied for millions of dollars in federal aid using the personal information of non-existent students. Stanley was an employee at the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) and had previously worked closely with students... Read More »
A Vallejo couple has reached a $2.5 million settlement with the Vallejo Police Department and the city after officials discounted the couple’s story of a late-night home invasion turned kidnapping. In March of 2015, Denise Huskins and her then-boyfriend Aaron Quinn alleged that at least two individuals in wetsuits broke... Read More »
A Northwestern Medicine study has been published in a pre-print and is waiting to be accepted by a journal. For now, it is preliminary. The study found that the Federal Assault Weapons Ban (FAWB) that existed from 1994-2004 led to a large decrease in mass shootings and the number of... Read More »
When American men and women turn 18, they can all vote. Men, but not women, must also register for the draft within 30 days, even though military service in the U.S. has been completely voluntary since 1973. Over 40 years ago, a group of men challenged the male-only draft registration... Read More »
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has filed a lawsuit against Google in an effort to have the tech giant’s search engine be declared a public utility. According to Yost, the search engine qualifies under Ohio common law as a “common carrier or public utility.” The complaint tackles several issues with... Read More »
Back in 1994, the U.S. Congress passed a federal ban on certain assault weapons due to a large number of mass shootings with assault weapons. The official name for the ban was the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act. Nineteen models of assault weapons were banned. “Copies or... Read More »
On June 7, 2021, the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Temporary Protected Status (TPS) does not overcome the legal entry requirement individuals must satisfy to apply for Lawful Permanent Residence (LPR) under 8 U.S. Code Section 1255. The Court upheld a circuit court decision that found “lawful status... Read More »
In what is believed to be the first challenge in federal court to Critical Race Theory-based curricula, Nevada mother Gabrielle Clark is suing the State Charter School Authority and Democracy Prep Public Schools on behalf of her son William. At issue is a Democracy Prep class for high school seniors... Read More »
Officials from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and children’s products maker Fisher-Price announced recalls of two Fisher-Price products in the first week of June 2021. The products, the 4-in-1 Rock ’n Glide Soother and 2-in-1 Soothe ’n Play Gliders, have been removed from the market after four infants... Read More »
22-year-old Joshua Hall of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, is facing charges including one count of wire fraud and one count of identity theft after he allegedly pretended to be a member of former President Donald Trump's family in order to secure fraudulent election funds. The 22-year-old is accused of posing as members... Read More »
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is not responsible for the acts of a drunk, off-duty officer who shot his neighbor in the back. Finding no “causal nexus” between the officer’s job and his criminal act, a California Court of Appeal affirmed the lower court’s dismissal of the case, which was... Read More »
On June 7, 2021, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a bill that makes it illegal for any Texas business or government entity to require the provision of any evidence that an individual has received a COVID-19 vaccine. Texas has now joined a number of states, including Florida and... Read More »
Former Slovenian Olympic figure skater, Luka Klasinc, 48, is accused of defrauding the U.S. government out of nearly 1.6 million dollars during the coronavirus pandemic. The Slovenian figure skater was arrested earlier this week on bank fraud and aggravated identity theft charges after he attempted to get a hold of... Read More »
