Sep 20, 2017
A Facebook friendship doesn’t necessarily signify a close relationship, according to Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal. A mere allegation of a Facebook friendship, without more, does not provide a basis for disqualification, the court said. The Aug. 23 decision...
Sep 18, 2017
It is common for judges to publish guidance for lawyers who appear in their courtrooms on how to conduct themselves with regard to minor matters like how and when to file motions. But on Wednesday, Jack B. Weinstein, a senior federal judge in Brooklyn, used this...
Sep 15, 2017
The state of New York says its driver’s license facial recognition technology has led to the arrest of 4,000 people in connection to identify theft or fraud crimes. This number is likely to skyrocket in the wake of the state doubling the number of measurement...
Sep 14, 2017
OWH The City of Omaha, after discussing a crime lab merger with Douglas County for more than a decade, got tired of waiting. City leaders have now done what they said they would do if Douglas County Sheriff Tim Dunning an other critics kept standing in the way of a...
Sep 11, 2017
A U.S. appeals court on Friday limited the ability of police to seize cell phones from homes of people suspected of crimes, ruling the prevelance of mobile devices did not mean police could assume a suspect had one when requesting a search warrant. The U.S. Court of...
