One of the few remaining states without a reporter Shield Law is moving closer to adopting one. South Dakota’s House of Representatives passed the journalists’ Shield Law last week. The bill now heads to the state Senate. Shield laws protect journalists...
On Feb 14, 2020, Monique Brady of Rhode Island was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to the charge of running a Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of more than $10 million. Brady also pleaded guilty to charges of obstructing an IRS criminal...
US Magistrate Judge Eric Long has issued a letter to counsel in the Welcome Inn case that could be near settlement. In a Jan. 28 letter, Judge Long set out what needed to be done before the settlement conference scheduled for Feb. 22. The judge posed several questions...
A Welcome Inn settlement could soon be reached in the longstanding case. The parties to the suit have scheduled a settlement conference for February 22 at the Urbana, Illinois courthouse. By Feb. 15, each counsel, by confidential letter, must submit to the court a...
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wants to make it a felony to assault journalists, bringing it from a misdemeanor to a class D felony. “Reporters have a tough enough job as it and it is unacceptable and unconscionable that they increasingly have to endure the threat of...
