Lauren Klosinski | July 30, 2019 | Sentencing
On July 25, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a press release announcing that Attorney General William P. Barr has directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to adopt an addendum to the Federal Execution Protocol and schedule the executions of five death-row inmates...
Kevin Reitz, Cecelia M. Klingele and Lauren Klosinski | June 24, 2019 | Sentencing
Kevin R. Reitz of University of Minnesota Law School and Cecelia M. Klingele of University of Wisconsin Law School recently published an article in Volume 48 of Crime and Justice, a journal from the University of Chicago. Since 1979 the Crime and Justice series has...
Lauren Klosinski | June 19, 2019 | Sentencing
In a recent article for Law360 Access to Justice, Alexandra Natapoff of UC Irvine School of Law examines the misdemeanor process in the U.S. criminal justice system. Professor Natapoff argues that the misdemeanor system is “under-regulated and rarely scrutinized. And...
Lauren Klosinski | June 17, 2019 | Torts: Economic Harm
The California Supreme Court cited the Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Liability for Economic Harm in its recent decision involving the issue of whether a gas company had a tort duty to guard against purely economic losses.The case, Southern California Gas...
Lauren Klosinski | May 30, 2019 | Sentencing
New Hampshire is now the 21st U.S. state to have abolished capital punishment, state legislature voted to override a veto by Gov. Chris Sununu on Thursday, May 30.After a years-long effort to repeal the state’s death penalty, the state’s Senate voted 16-8...
