Pauline Toboulidis | September 22, 2017 | Student Sexual Misconduct
Today, the U.S. Department of Education released an interim Q&A for schools to reference when investigating and/or adjudicating federal campus sexual misconduct allegations. Additionally, the Department withdrew statements of policy issued in its 2011 Dear...
Pauline Toboulidis | August 30, 2017 | Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld a lower court decision dismissing a law professor’s lawsuit against Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law’s former interim dean. In his assault and battery suit, the plaintiff alleged that he suffered...
Pauline Toboulidis | August 22, 2017 | Sentencing
Model Penal Code: Sentencing Reporters have updated the black letter text of the Proposed Final Draft. When any ALI project is approved at an Annual Meeting, Reporters will update the draft and make editorial changes that were directed or agreed to by the Council or...
Pauline Toboulidis | August 16, 2017 | American Indian Law
In Murphy v. Royal, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit invalidated the state court murder conviction and death sentence of Patrick Dwayne Murphy, an American Indian, after concluding that Oklahoma courts lacked jurisdiction. Murphy was convicted of the...
Pauline Toboulidis | July 26, 2017 | Sentencing
The below information is from a press release issued by the U.S. Sentencing Commission, Office of Legislative & Public Affairs. The United States Sentencing Commission released a new publication—An Overview of Mandatory Minimum Penalties in the Federal Criminal...
