PEOPLE v. FLORES
Lance Salisbury, for appellant. James P. Maxwell, for respondent. Upstate Drone Action; Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, et al.; Daniel Finlay, et al.; New York Civil Liberties Union; Vera House, Inc., amici curiae.
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Ironshore Specialty Insurance Company Northeast Ship Repair Inc v….
IRONSHORE SPECIALTY INSURANCE COMPANY, in its own right and as subrogee of NORTHEAST SHIP REPAIR, INC., Plaintiff, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; AMERICAN OVERSEAS MARINE COMPANY, LLC, Defendants, Appellees, GENERAL DYNAMICS AMERICA OVERSEAS MARINE CORPORATION, Defendant.
De Blasio, Mark-Viverito Reach Deal on Legal Services Funding for Immigrants
Following a tense standoff between Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito over whether undocumented immigrants convicted of serious crimes should receive taxpayer-funded legal services, the pair announced Monday that private donors would provide funding for those services instead. In June, Mark-Viverito inserted language into the city budget mandating that the $26 million plan to offer legal services to undocumented immigrants facing deportation include individuals convicted of one of 170 crimes that the city exempts from its "sanctuary city" protections.
Trump threatened to end health care coverage for members of Congress. Can he?
Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney explained Trump's tweet that bailouts to members of Congress would end soon on CNN on July 29, 2017. Following repeated failed attempts to repeal Obamacare, President Donald Trump has turned to bashing not only the health care law and its architects but all members of Congress on Twitter.
Anti-Immigrant Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Convicted of Criminal Contempt of Court
Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a strong ally of Donald Trump, has been found guilty of criminal contempt of court for defying an order that he stop his department's infamous roundups of people he suspected to be undocumented immigrants. Arpaio was sheriff of Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix and is the state's most populous county, from 1993 until 2016.
9th Circuit rejects argument that ‘No Added Sugar’ means ‘healthy’
The relationship between "added sugar" and adverse health outcomes has been a subject of debate. When the FDA proposed adding a line for "added sugar" to the nutrition labels on packaged food , some argued that the label could send a message that naturally occurring sugar meant "healthy" and "added sugar" meant unhealthy .
Combining a free market and single-payer system will provide more options
But, given the tenor of recent conversations between the parties, the next bill presented will need to make significant concessions to satisfy both sides of the table. We propose a new approach - grounded in sound economics - which will test the love-hate capacity of Republicans and Democrats alike, but will result in more options, more coverage, and more fiscal transparency and prudence for the American people.
Here’s why cops hate the war on drugs as much as we do
A return to a "law and order" approach would undo recent gains in reducing crime rates as well as prison populations and would further strain tense police-community relations. The United States has been waging a war on drugs for nearly 50 years .
White House to Senate: Pass health bill now or else
" The White House stepped up demands Sunday that the Senate resume efforts to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama's health care law, suggesting that lawmakers cancel their entire August recess, if needed, to pass legislation after a stunning series of failed votes last week. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has declared that it was "time to move on" from health care, scheduling debate early this week on judicial nominations.
White House: Trump to decide soon on letting ‘Obamacare implode’
The White House is insisting that the Senate resume efforts to repeal and replace the nation's health care law, signaling that President Donald Trump stands ready to end required payments to insurers this week to let "Obamacare implode" and force congressional action.
Trump to decide soon if he will let ‘Obamacare implode,’ White House says
U.S. President Donald Trump has not answered a single question from non-friendly media about his party's health care plan. He seems fond of tweeting about the topic to publicly scold Republicans, but it's not clear if Trump knows or understands any of the nuances of health care policy.
Republicans look forward
After a chaotic week for President Donald Trump and his party, Republicans are facing a fundamental question: What's next? With a new chief of staff, communications director and press secretary in tow, the President clearly is seeking to "hit the reset button," as his now former chief of staff Reince Priebus said Friday. Also clamoring to turn the page, GOP leaders on both sides of Capitol Hill are clearly signaling they are ready to turn to a slew of issues and agenda items this fall, like taxes, border security, the budget, spending bills, and more -- and even Trump administration officials are echoing that call.
We Cana t Live in Fear of Our Own Intelligence Community
U.S. intelligence agencies are telling us not to worry about the FISA Amendments Act, a 2008 law that allows the NSA to tap into the communications of "non-U.S. persons" who are outside the U.S., even though this law sidesteps the Fourth Amendment as it allows the NSA to record the emails and phone calls of U.S. citizens who happen to be communicating with people overseas. How many American citizens is the government listening in on? We don't know, as the intelligence agencies told Congress they can't say just how many American citizens they've eavesdropped on .
Child advocates urge back-seat alarms as 2 die in Arizona
A proposed law that would require carmakers to build alarms for back seats is being pushed by child advocates who say it will prevent kids from dying in hot cars. The law also would streamline the criminal process against caregivers who cause the deaths - cases that can be inconsistent but often heavier-handed against mothers.
Scotland to Britain: Protect Scotch whisky after Brexit
There's an issue that bedevils commuters who use New York's Penn Station that will persist long after this summer's extensive track work . There's an issue that bedevils commuters who use New York's Penn Station that will persist long after this summer's extensive track work .
Bob Brady runs Philadelphia Democrats amid run of corruption
In this Monday, July 25, 2016, file photo, Rep. Bob Brady, D-Penn., speaks during the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Brady has spent 30 years running Philadelphia's Democratic machine, and 20 years in Congress, watching a string of local party leaders go to prison.
US President Donald Trump doesn’t bother to disguise his thuggish instincts
OPINION: US President Donald Trump, speaking on Friday on Long Island, told a gathering of police officers: "I said, please, don't be too nice - like when you guys put somebody in the car and you're protecting their head ... I said you can take the hand away, OK?" That's not a trash-talking guy with a Confederate battle flag. That's the head of the executive branch , who has sworn to uphold the Constitution.
Maine residents pushing back against premium hikes
Maine residents are lambasting health care insurers for proposing double-digit premium hikes they say would hurt the state's middle and lower classes. Harvard Pilgrim and Anthem Inc. have both said they may leave the Affordable Care Act marketplace in the nation's oldest state next year, citing rising health care costs driven by pharmaceutical drug prices and uncertainty over the health care law's future.
GOP sends mixed messages on the future of American healthcare after…
The Republican party appears to be sending differing signals following the collapse of Senate GOP efforts to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare. President Donald Trump has, in recent days, ramped up calls for the Senate to vote on healthcare before considering any other legislation.
Peter Courtney, Oregon Senate president and state’s most-tenured lawmaker, mulls retirement
A month after lawmakers adjourned, the halls of the Capitol are quiet. But for one of the Oregon Legislature's most powerful members, a crucial question remains unanswered: Will Senate President Peter Courtney retire? The answer will determine the tone of future legislative sessions, the power split between Oregon's liberal and moderate Democrats, the level of bipartisanship in the Capitol and whether lawmakers take action on issues ranging from climate change to corporate taxes.