There exists an important relationship between many federal agencies and various research universities. Many schools receive substantial federal grants to fund research for agencies such as the NASA and the Mine Safety and Health Administration. But these grant funds come with strings attached. Researchers and universities that do not carefully account for the use of […]

Anyone who has spent any amount of time in a kindergarten classroom, or even just around five and six year-olds, knows that they can be a handful, especially when grouped together. While it is the role of any teacher to educate his students, a large part of the job for a kindergarten teacher is simply […]

As you may know, for most federal criminal charges, there exists a statute of limitations. A statute of limitations is a period of time after an alleged act within which a criminal prosecutor must bring charges. If the charges are not brought by the time the statute of limitations expires, the suspect cannot generally be […]

The judgment and impartiality of our federal judges is one of the bedrocks of our federal criminal justice system. So when it was discovered that a judge for the Federal District Court in Atlanta had been abusing drugs and made statements indicating that his decisions may have been racially motivated, it calls into question the […]

During the last few decades, federal courts had routinely found that subjecting an individual to a strip search, absent suspicion that the individual was concealing something, was a violation of the individual’s constitutional rights. But in 2008, federal appeals courts in Atlanta and several other circuits, changed course and said that security risks justified strip […]

After being accused of a crime and then being cleared of wrongdoing, you would hope that the justice system would protect you against any negative consequences of that investigation. Record expungement and record sealing are possibilities after a conviction, but what if your case was dismissed, and your name was cleared all together? What if […]

The increased pressure on the prosecutors, an FBI investigation, and the national media focus on the Trayvon Martin case stem from public outrage after a teenager lost his life to a shooter who claimed self-defense. In addition to the accusations that the crime was racially motivated, the divisive case also call into question expanded self-defense […]