Recently, the Ninth Circuit decided the case of United States v. Payne, holding that forcing an individual to use their thumb or finger to unlock an electronic device does not violate their Fifth...
In today’s New York Times, Senior Counsel Greg Nolan analyzes the effect that some prosecutions may have on citizens’ willingness to vote. The piece stems from Mr. Nolan’s authorship of a...
Senior Counsel Greg Nolan analyzes a new whistle blower program that federal prosecutors in some localities are offering. It allows white collar criminals to avoid prosecution if they alert aut...
On February 15, 2023, our firm filed a class action lawsuit against Pacific Red, LLC, Pacific Design Center 1, LLC, and Cohen PDC LLC, alleging wage claims for:: Failure to Pay Minimum Wages; Fai...
Recently the trial judge in Donald Trump’s Georgia criminal case ruled that Fani Willis could stay on the case, but only if Nathan Wade left. As a recap, Willis and Wade used to date, and s...
On January 23, 2024, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rebuked the FBI for its March 2021 raid on US Private Vaults (“USPV”) in Beverly Hills, California. The decision ends the long running dr...
Frontline PBS recently released Democracy on Trial, a special documentary examining the origins and key evidence in the upcoming trials against former President Donald Trump. BWO Partner Ken Wh...
California’s mental health diversion statute, Penal Code section 1001.36, has been on the books since 2018. But there is no published case nor any secondary source addressing its applicabilit...
Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, resigned earlier this week. Her resignation letter suggests two root causes: fallout from her recent congressional testimony and allegations of plagiarism i...
https://brownwhitelaw.com/academics-need-good-advice-in-the-face-of-scandals-and-subpoenas/
On July 15, 2021, a class action lawsuit was filed in the Superior Court of California, County of Orange, styled Nicole Wheat v. Mario Marovic, et. al., Case No: 30-2021-01210986-CU-OE-CXC. A cop...
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