Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress last week and was grilled by various members of that body about FB’s policies towards political ads. In one round of such questioning, Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) asked him whether a candidate could target ads to African-American voters that contained a false election date. He answered “No” […]
I am hearing so much noise - most of it from the right but some of it from the left - about the impeachment process that is simply incorrect that I thought I would give a quick guide to the process and what testimony there has been to date in the current impeachment inquiry. And […]
Stephanie Clifford of the New York Times last Tuesday wrote a piece on a growing trend among prosecutors facing motions to vacate wrongful convictions: They will consent to the motion if the defendant agrees to waive his right to seek money damages for his wrongful conviction. The story focuses on the Philadelphia case of Jimmy […]
In a case that is a companion case to my Federal civil rights case, Anilao v. Spota, Judge Nina Gershon, a United States District Court Judge for the Eastern District of NY has issued a 48 page decision, ruling that the owners of the Sentosa group of nursing homes violated the US anti-human-trafficking laws by using […]
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