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Pauline Toboulidis Posts
Montana Lawmakers Consider Sexual Assault Bill
by Pauline Toboulidis | Jan 5, 2017 | Sexual Assault
This week, Montana’s Law and Justice Interim Committee is scheduled to meet and discuss updating Montana’s sexual assault laws, including updating the definition of sexual consent.
Responding to Security Breaches
by Pauline Toboulidis | Dec 7, 2016 | Data Privacy
Security breaches remain big news, virtually every day. Executives and managers understand it is a question of “when,” not “if,” their companies will be targeted. Companies in all industries, as well as a host of other organizations, are affected. Hackers are engaged in ever more brazen schemes to gather personal and proprietary information for a variety of motives.
Roundtable Asks “Money or Justice?”
by Pauline Toboulidis | Nov 15, 2016 | Policing, Sentencing
ALI President Designate and Duke Law School Dean David F. Levi recently held a roundtable to address the ongoing impact that court fines and fees, and bail practices have on communities – especially the economically disadvantaged – across the United States.
FAMM Urges Mass. Legislature to Adopt Sentencing Reform in Response to Supreme Court Ruling
by Pauline Toboulidis | Oct 21, 2016 | Sentencing
FAMM has urged the Massachusetts legislature to pass common sense sentencing reform in response to a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s ruling last week that state law does not currently allow departures from mandatory minimum sentences.
J&J Warns Patients of Cybersecurity Risk Involving Insulin Pump
by Pauline Toboulidis | Oct 6, 2016 | Data Privacy
Johnson & Johnson recently warned its patients in a letter that it has been notified that the OneTouch Ping Insulin Pump System has a cybersecurity issue involving the possibility of a third party gaining unauthorized access to the pump.
NYT Op-Ed on MPC: Sexual Assault Project
by Pauline Toboulidis | Aug 24, 2016 | Sexual Assault
Published in June 2016, an op-ed piece featured in The New York Times highlights ALI’s continuing work on the Model Penal Code: Sexual Assault and Related Offenses project, specifically, its preliminary proposal to allow intoxication to lessen culpability. This article comes in the wake of the recent California sexual assault case against former Stanford University student, Brock Turner.
Liability Insurance in Rutgers Law Review
by Pauline Toboulidis | Aug 20, 2016 | Liability Insurance
Rutgers Law School dedicated its Fall 2015 Law Review to the discussion of the Restatement of the Law, Liability Insurance project. The issue, which includes several pieces contributed by ALI members, was drafted in follow-up to a conference held at Rutgers Law School.