Answering Critics, Avenatti Says Slaying Goliaths Is His Business Model | New York Law Journal
The California-based commercial litigation attorney and his own practice have racked up over $1 billion in verdicts in cases against some of the biggest companies and law firms out there. I stand by the legal work we’ve done and the results we’ve attained he said.
The police explanation that more black and Hispanic people are arrested on marijuana charges because complaints are high in their neighborhoods doesnât hold up to scrutiny.
Source: www.nytimes.com/2018/05/13/nyregion/marijuana-arrests-nyc-race.html
Reformers love what Massachusetts is doing. The NRA? Not so much.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/toughest-gun-law-america_us_5aeb27a9e4b041fd2d23d3f7
Michael Cohen arranged a $1.6 million payout to a model allegedly impregnated by GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy. But was Broidy covering for Trump?
Source: nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/theory-playboy-model-had-affair-with-trump-not-broidy.html
Just as consumer electronics continually get faster, cheaper, smaller, and more sophisticated, so too do the tools law enforcement uses to spy on us.
Source: www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-farivar-surveillance-tech-20180502-story.html
Princeton University history professor Kevin M. Kruse is a Twitter Ninja Warrior. He can slice and dice and bring the facts with a devastating wit. In this Twitter thread he educates and illuminates a topic which has been muddied by Christian nationalist history writers such as Dinesh D’Souza and David Barton: The history of political parties …
The makers of TurboTax and other online systems spent millions lobbying last year, much of it directed toward a bill that would permanently bar the government from offering taxpayers prefilled filings.
Source: www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-free-simple-hr-block-intuit-lobbying-against-it
When Europe begins enforcing sweeping new privacy rules next month, it will have a major impact on U.S. tech companies, both large and small. And it could affect American Internet users as well.
NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with Estelle Massé, senior policy analyst for Access Now â a non-profit organization devoted to open and secure communications worldwide â about the new law adopted by the European Union to protect online privacy.
Source: www.npr.org/2018/04/16/602971733/what-the-european-unions-new-online-privacy-law-means-for-the-u-s
From Twitter:
I miss the good old days when political demographics were “Soccer Moms” and “NASCAR Dads” instead of “White Supremacist Bunker Survivalists” and “Nazi Bikers Who Used to Freelance at Infowars.”