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New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed the first lawsuits under her office’s “de facto” rent stabilization compliance program, taking legal action against two Brooklyn landlords accused of illegal evictions, tenant harassment, and failure to register regulated housing units with state authorities. The lawsuits, announced last Monday, June 16, 2026 target property owners John…
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North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced that a federal judge has granted an emergency motion freezing what he described as the largest television merger in U.S. history, setting up a major legal battle over media consolidation and antitrust law. “Merger frozen,” Jackson said in a social media video after describing the court decision as…
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Georgia Redistricting Fight Paused: What Happens Next After GOP Leaders Reject Kemp’s 2028 Map Push?
Georgia lawmakers may have stopped a proposed redistricting effort for now, but legal and political observers say the larger battle over voting maps in the state is far from over. Republican legislative leaders on Wednesday rejected an effort backed by Gov. Brian Kemp to redraw Georgia’s congressional and legislative districts ahead of the 2028 election…
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A nurse practitioner who prosecutors said positioned herself as an authority on Medicare compliance while participating in a multimillion-dollar fraud operation has been sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison after being convicted in a scheme involving medically unnecessary cancer genetic testing. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Scharmaine Lawson Baker, 59,…
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A recent opinion from the U.S. Department of Justice challenging a foundational principle of employment discrimination law is generating legal debate over the future of federal workplace protections and the scope of civil rights enforcement. Attorney Nicole Robinson sharply criticized the development in a social media post, arguing that the administration had effectively weakened longstanding…
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A multi-billion dollar industry is quietly reshaping the American legal landscape—and nearly all of it operates without regulation or transparency. Litigation funding, in which investors pay for lawsuits in exchange for a share of any winnings, has exploded in recent years, raising profound ethical and policy questions. “It’s actually safer in today’s environment to invest…
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The New Orleans public defender’s office, responsible for representing more than 20,000 indigent defendants annually with just 52 attorneys, has reached a breaking point. The office’s chief public defender, Derwyn Bunton, has taken the extraordinary step of refusing to take on new felony cases, arguing that the system is so broken it has become “just…
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In Kenya’s overcrowded prisons, where more than 80% of inmates have never been represented by a lawyer, a British-founded organization is training incarcerated people to become paralegals and lawyers, and the results have been nothing short of transformative. Justice Defenders, founded by Alexander McLean in 2007, has worked in 55 prisons across Kenya, Uganda, and…
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In what legal scholars are calling one of the most remarkable redemption stories in modern American jurisprudence, a convicted bank robber who taught himself law while serving a 12-year federal prison sentence has become a professor at one of the nation’s premier law schools. Shon Hopwood, now a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, first…
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Georgia criminal defense attorney Alicia Luncheon is calling for nationwide reform of compensation laws for wrongfully convicted individuals, arguing that legal remedies for exonerees remain inconsistent across the United States and often depend more on geography than legal principle. In a recently posted social media video promoting a petition campaign created in partnership with Change.org,…
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