Public Policy
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A report released Thursday by the internal watchdog arm of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services blamed “interagency communication failures and poor internal management decisions” for HHS’s bungled response to an increase in migrant family separations under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The panel in charge of disciplining Illinois attorneys recommended Tuesday that former Gov. Rod Blagojevich be disbarred for the offenses that led to his 2011 corruption conviction, a move that did not appear to faze him… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A proposed supervised drug injection site in Philadelphia won approval to open its doors on Tuesday when a Pennsylvania federal judge swept aside the government’s arguments that the controversial facility, intended to reduce opioid overdose deaths, would violate federal drug laws… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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An attorney challenging Delaware’s judicial political parity rule told the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday that a provision of the state constitution requiring equal representation of parties on the bench is “offensive to the First Amendment”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The Fifth Circuit withdrew a previously published opinion, citing an apology by a mother whose attorney had been taken to task for filing an appeal allegedly laced with anti-gay prejudice in a case accusing a Mississippi school district of violating a student’s rights with a purportedly improper search… Read this piece in its entirety at…
Mike LaSusa 