From TheGrio: Who knew that the young man in this commercial would one day become the president of our country? Recently, a 1991 TBS ad featuring Barack Obama has surfaced on the Internet. His title back then was the editor of the Harvard Law Review and he reported the Black…
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From BizJournal: The embattled Steven J. Baum P.C. law firm is the closing its doors after a series of missteps that included mortgage industry giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae cutting off business with the Amherst-based firm. Baum has filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification notice with several government…
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MFY filed the first amended class action complaint Friday in the class action lawsuit against Steven J. Baum, P.C. MFY added Steven Baum personally as a defendant and another claim under a different provision of the FDCPA. A copy of the complaint can be found here. (22)
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Criminal InJustice† is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Criminal InJustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm CST. Pelican Bay is not Enough!! Continuing the Struggle Against…
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From Immigration Prof Blog: CNN reports that the U.S. government filed its brief in the Eleventh Circuit in its challenge to the Alabama immigration law. “The brief asks the appeals court to block six parts of the Alabama law, including a provision requiring police to check immigration status during traffic…
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From Center for American Progress: According to new data recently released by the Census Bureau and the Pew Research Center, households headed by someone 65 or older had an average total net worth 47 times greater than a home headed by a person 35 or younger. … The wealth gap…
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From Constitutional Law Prof Blog: [Yesterday] the early morning police eviction of protesters from NYC’s Zuccotti park by police officers was quickly followed by a Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting the city from evicting protesters from the park and enforcing rules prohibiting tents and other property. The hearing on that order,…
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From ThinkProgress: Last week, a federal court in Mississippi sentenced a key figure in a $3 million mortgage fraud scheme to two and a half years in federal prison. Just a few days earlier, however, a Mississippi federal judge imposed a significantly harsher sentence on a woman who lied on…
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