Regular readers know that I am interested in the criminal prosecution of Sam Bankman-Fried, who is currently serving 25 years in federal prison for fraudulent activity related to his operation of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX. I reviewed Michael Lewis’s book about Bankman-Fried and have posted several times about the case. There are now several new…
A blockbuster panel kicked off “Establishing a National Agenda for Meeting the Promise of Brown v. Board: 70 Years Later,” a three-day conference that featured a number of prominent educators. The convening, which is taking place in Washington, D.C. this week to mark the 70th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that outlawed segregation…
The last few years have been exceptionally hard for arts and cultural nonprofits. Just as organizations started to see patrons coming back to museums, live performances, and art classes, this year saw state governments from Florida to California severely reduce financial support for arts and cultural organizations. Revenue diversity is a good hedge against the…
We’ve recently seen several less-than-stellar responses from respected academic institutions that have been justified on the grounds that they did what they did to maintain “free speech”: Stanford’s response to Kyle Duncan’s inability to justify his positions to students and Amy Wax spewing PragerU talking points come to mind. Not to be undone by its…
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to Axiom’s new report, Bridging the Divide: Optimizing Legal Department Performance through Legal Ops, AI, and In-House Collaboration, what percentage of in-house legal departments have experienced budget cuts and hiring freezes over the past year? Hint: Compare the fate of legal departments…
This post summarizes the published criminal opinions from the North Carolina Court of Appeals released on June 4, 2024. These summaries will be added to Smith’s Criminal Case Compendium, a free and searchable database of case summaries from 2008 to the present. Order of specific performance for plea agreement was error where defendant did not…
A one-of-a-kind album is at the center of the legal squabble. The post Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli On Wrong Side Of Preliminary Injunction appeared first on Above the Law. #Pharma #Bro #Martin #Shkreli #Wrong #Side #Preliminary #Injunction
OPINION ANALYSIS By Amy Howe on Jul 2, 2024 at 6:34 pm The justices ruled on Monday in Corner Post, Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (Katie Barlow) The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a North Dakota truck stop can bring a challenge to a regulation issued 13 years ago…
Awareness alone is passive. Do you wish you had a dime for every time a nonprofit board or staff member told you “We’re the best kept secret in town; if people knew what we do, they’d give to support us.” Nonprofits tell me this all the time! If I had…
For years, I’ve watched promising medical technologies languish in labs, never reaching the patients who desperately need them. The culprit? Not overzealous regulators, but our antiquated approach to innovation. It’s time we stop pointing fingers at the FDA and take a hard look in the mirror. The truth is, the FDA isn’t the enemy of…