Update: On Dec. 8, 2021, four days after the hearing described below, a two-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, headed by Chief Judge Sidney Thomas, ordered federal prosecutors to respond to the defense’s request for a…
In the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 decision forbidding New York state from enforcing certain COVID restrictions on houses of worship, Justice Neil Gorsuch comes off as the judicial embodiment of that notorious line from U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater: “Extremism…
Vanity license plates in California may now call their owners “OGs,” reclaim the term “queer,” and proudly exclaim the British expletive,”Bollocks!” — all thanks to a new ruling from a federal judge nixing the state DMV’s regulations forbidding rude and…
On Nov. 18, veteran newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin took the extraordinary step of filing a petition for a writ of mandamus with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, asking it to intervene in their ongoing criminal case and…
So what do you do if you believe Facebook is “shredding the fabric of our democracy” and Mark Zuckerberg is a guy who maybe should face criminal prosecution? If you’re Joe Biden’s campaign, you write Zuck a check for more…
It is difficult, for sheer outrage, to rival the French Revolutionary Tribunal where Georges Danton instructed the courthouse functionaries: “Let us be terrible, so that the people do not have to be.” His savage directive lives yet to this very…
With COVID 19 still wreaking havoc in federal and state courts across the nation, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Brnovich granted a defense motion on Friday to delay for another four months the Phoenix trial of veteran newspapermen Michael Lacey…
A new report from the National Registry of Exonerations, a U.S. database of individuals whose wrongful convictions have been overturned, finds prosecutorial misconduct to be rampant in federal white-collar convictions that eventually result in exoneration. According to “Government Misconduct and…
The FBI recently returned scores of personal possessions belonging to veteran newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin as the result of a judge’s finding that the bureau violated their Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure when its agents…
On Saturday, August 29, the Los Angeles Press Club honored video journalist Paul Detrick of Reason magazine for his brilliant, 2019 documentary, The War on Backpage.com Is a War on Sex Workers, awarding it second place for best investigative journalism…
