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'Overwhelming Evidence': Nude Farming Is Not Therapy
By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on
A Kansas social worker convicted of enslaving mentally-ill residents of a group home, and forcing them to engage in sexual acts and nude farming as part of...
Robert Bacharach's Tenth Circuit Nomination Held Up in Senate
By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on
U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert E. Bacharach has support from his home state senators and a "unanimously well qualified" rating from the American Bar Association,...
Fake Lawyer Howard Kieffer Wins Sentencing Error Appeal
By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on
Howard Kieffer is kind of like Leonardo DiCaprio’s character in Catch Me If You Can, (without Leo’s movie star looks). Though he never attended law school or...
Court Decides Attorneys Fees, Notes First Amendment Ratification
By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on
The problem with reading appellate opinions all day is that it makes us question what is wrong with the characters that occupy the courts, on both sides of the...
SCOTUS Signals Howards End in Qualified Immunity Appeal
By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on
Steven Howards can't sue the Secret Service agents who arrested him after he expressed his disapproval for the war in Iraq to then-Vice President Dick...
Indecent Proposal to a Minor is a Crime of Violence
By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on
Perhaps the Sentencing Guidelines should have included an enhancement for past "nefarious deeds" instead of past "crimes of violence" because no defendant...