The Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system is being accused of charging fees for documents in excess of what is allowed by law. Three non-profits – the Alliance for Justice, the National Veterans Legal Services Program, and the National Consumer Law Center – filed suit in 2016...
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has upheld a U.S. law that makes it illegal for Undocumented Immigrants to own or possess firearms. The case stemmed from the arrest of a man who had crossed into the US illegally in 2005, and later in 2014 was...
The King County Superior Court, which recently moved off of the State’s legacy case management system, SCOMIS, in favor of a platform from Journal Technologies called KC-JAMS, has made a name change! Due to a potential lawsuit from another entity called JAMS, King County decided to switch to the...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s child protection law does not extend to fetuses or the unborn; consequently, they are excluded from being considered victims of parental neglect. From the The Morning Call: “The Supreme Court’s main opinion said the law’s definition of a child does...
Pacific Gas & Electric’s alleged liability in starting a disastrous wildfire that ravaged California in late 2018 may be exacerbated by a previous criminal sentence. PG&E was placed on five years of probation in 2017 after a criminal conviction stemming from the 2010 explosion of one of its natural...
