by jpitney | Jan 28, 2026 | Civility, Colorado, Judiciary, Law
Michael Karlik at Colorado Politics The Colorado Supreme Court’s Civil Rules Committee overwhelmingly rejected a proposal last week to create an enforceable “civility code” for lawyers and legal paraprofessionals, which would allow judges to quickly impose corrective...
by jpitney | Dec 24, 2025 | California Politics, Crime, Law
Anat Rubin at CalMatters: Nearly half of California counties pay private lawyers and firms to represent poor people in criminal cases, and most of them, like San Benito, do it through what’s known as a “flat-fee” contract, meaning they pay a fixed amount, regardless...
by jpitney | Oct 26, 2025 | California Politics, Law, Local Government, Los Angeles, Uncategorized
Rebecca Ellis at LAT: Fesia Davenport, L.A. County’s chief executive officer, received a $2-million settlement related to Measure G, according to a letter released by the county counsel. Davenport had sought damages over “reputational harm, embarrassment, and...
by jpitney | Jul 12, 2025 | Journalism, Journalists, Law
Filmmaker Mary Strause made a docuseries critical of UnitedHealth. The companies used the threat of litigation to coerce streaming services to take it down. CMC alum David Enrich at NYT: In legal letters and court filings, UnitedHealth has invoked last year’s murder...
by jpitney | Apr 27, 2025 | Congress, Law
Bruce Mehlman compares the number of executive orders and laws during the first hundred days of recent presidents:
by jpitney | Aug 8, 2024 | Congress, Law
Nobody knows exactly how many federal crimes there are. Neil Gorsuch and Janie Nitze at The Atlantic: Part of the reason no one can easily count the number of federal crimes is that our federal criminal code was “not planned; it just grew,” as Ronald Gainer, a retired...
