by Joseph Pimentel | Jul 8, 2019 | Caleb Kruckenberg, Opinion
Originally published in Washington Examiner on July 8, 2019Robert Shipp is serving the remainder of a federal prison sentence on an ankle monitor in Chicago, Illinois. But Shipp is being held unlawfully by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.Even though he was due to be...
by Joseph Pimentel | Jul 1, 2019 | Mark Chenoweth, Opinion
Originally published in Forbes on June 30, 2019 Chief Justice John Roberts lent the crucial fifth vote to uphold so-called Auer deference (solely on stare decisis grounds) in last week’s Kisor v. Wilkie case at the U.S. Supreme Court. In so doing, he wrote that “the...
by Joseph Pimentel | Jun 18, 2019 | Mark Chenoweth, Opinion
Originally published in Forbes on June 18, 2019 Wide consequences will stem from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s recent decision granting qualified immunity to several Fresno, California police officers sued for theft. These consequences will prove...
by Joseph Pimentel | Jun 17, 2019 | Michael P. DeGrandis, Opinion
Originally published in Bloomberg Law on June 17, 2019 Fresno, Calif., police officers may have just gotten away with grand larceny. The Ninth Circuit recently passed on the opportunity to establish—once-and-for-all—that police officers stealing private property while...
by Joseph Pimentel | Jun 12, 2019 | Opinion, Peggy Little
Originally published in New York Law Journal on June 4, 2019 When government agencies such as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) bring charges, their press releases are notorious for their high...
by Vicki Mellino | Apr 9, 2019 | Caleb Kruckenberg, Opinion
Originally published in the Salt Lake Tribune on April 9, 2019 Clark Aposhian, a resident of Utah, is now the last man in America who can legally own a bump stock. Last month, a formal bump stock ban went into effect. The ban ordered anyone who lawfully purchased one...
