NIJ, Sept. 12, 2024 "[U]ndocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes."
Civil complaint AI summaries are now available for the Santa Clara County Superior Courts (California) and for Sacramento County Superior Court (California). These AI generated Snapshot summaries (like the Federal Civil cases and additional state court summaries...
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CALIFORNIA COMPENSATION CASES Vol. 89, No. 8 August 2024 A Report of En Banc and Significant Panel Decisions of the WCAB and Selected Court Opinions of Related Interest, With a Digest of WCAB Decisions Denied Judicial Review CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE ©...
Position paper presented at CSIMS 2024 by Hon. Robert G. Rassp, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Friends Research Institute (friendsresearch.org) Disclaimers: The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and are not those of the State of...
By Hon. Colleen Casey, Former Commissioner, California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board One of the most common reasons evaluating physicians flunk the apportionment validity test is due to their tendency to conflate causation of injury with causation...
By Hon. Colleen Casey, Former Commissioner, California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board Just when you thought the right of “due process” was on the brink of destruction, the legislature amended Labor Code section 5909 to ensure it survives...
Sandra Sanchez, Border Report, Oct. 1, 2024 "Recent reports that over 435,000 convicted criminals are on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s non-detained docket (NDD) — meaning they are not detained by the agency while they await immigration...
I have a client whose sister has a life interest trust in the family home. He wants to sell the property and divide the net sale proceeds equally between him and his sister. They are both the only two beneficiaries to their late parents' Wills. How does he...
NetChoice Leads Tech’s Legal Battle Against State Regulation Tech trade association NetChoice has become the chief litigator for the industry. In the last few years the organization has filed 10 lawsuits aimed at blocking new state laws relating mostly...
USCIS, Aug. 29, 2024 "Effective Aug. 28, DHS is establishing a new C40 category on Form I-766, Employment Authorization Document (EAD). The C40 category is for individuals with a pending Form I-914, Application for T Nonimmigrant Status, whose application...
By: Jeffrey D. Mamorsky , COHEN & BUCKMANN, P.C. THIS VIDEO SERIES CELEBRATES THE ENACTMENT of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), signed by President Gerald Ford on September 2, 1974, and generally effective for plan years starting on or...
By: Angela R. Cabral and Chelsea R. Avent , SLOAN SAKAI YEUNG & WONG LLP SYNTHETIC OPIOIDS, SUCH AS FENTANYL, ARE RESPONSIBLE for thousands of deaths in California every year. 1 Nationwide, deaths due to overdose rose 30% between 2019 and 2020 and another...
IRHTP, PLS, Sept. 2024 "Consistent complaints over the last twenty-five years reveal a disturbing pattern of systemic abuse and mistreatment of ICE detainees at Plymouth County Correctional Facility. Drawing on formal and informal investigations and inquiries...
ACLU, Sept. 23, 2024 "The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to obtain records regarding the agency’s potential plans to expand immigration detention across the country. The ACLU submitted...
Tech Lobby Zeroes In on AI Bill in CA Opponents of a first-of-its-kind bill ( SB 1047 ) in California aimed at regulating major developers of artificial intelligence outnumbered supporters of the measure by 3 to 1, according to analysis by the state’s Senate...
USCIS, Sept. 18, 2024 "Effective Sept. 10, 2024, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services automatically extended the validity of Permanent Resident Cards (also known as Green Cards) to 36 months for lawful permanent residents who file Form I-90, Application...
USCIS, Sept. 25, 2024 "Policy Highlights • Clarifies that USCIS calculates the CSPA age of an applicant who established extraordinary circumstances and is excused from the sought to acquire requirement using the date that the immigrant visa first became...
EOIR PM 24-01 "This Policy Memorandum provides updated standards to Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) adjudicators and personnel regarding the receipt of Notices to Appear (NTAs) filed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This Policy...
Brief Analysis has new enhancements within the Recommendations tab to improve your research and drafting experience. These include: Streamlined Legal Concepts : Legal concepts will remain in the dashboard and at the top of the recommendation tab, but they will...
By Geoffrey D. Ivnik, Esq. | Director of U.S. Large Markets, LexisNexis Law firm leaders perceive that generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) technology is going to have a dramatic impact on how efficiently lawyers are able to complete work assignments for...
By Geoffrey D. Ivnik, Esq. | Director of U.S. Legal Markets, LexisNexis The transformative nature of Legal AI, generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) technology trained for the legal profession, is destined to change the way that law firms work — but...
By Geoffrey D. Ivnik, Esq. | Director of Large Markets, LexisNexis Leaders of America’s largest law firms have decided to move full speed ahead with the adoption of generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) technology because they see these tools as keys...
Heritage Foundation v. DHS "In this Freedom of Information Act case, Plaintiffs seek the disclosure by the Department of Homeland Security of certain immigration records relating to the Duke of Sussex, a member of the British Royal Family known popularly...
MT Follows Trend of States Increasing Oversight of Nonprofit Hospitals The Montana Department of Public Health has proposed rules regarding the collection of data on nonprofit hospitals’ charitable acts, including discounting prices and conducting free...