Thousands of criminal cases on COVID hold as victims, defendants await justice
Neither the defendants who sit in jail nor the victims who await justice are being served by the pandemic-induced wait for a trial. Author: David Hammer / Eyewitness Investigator Published: 10:25 PM CST February 17, 2021 Updated: 10:50 PM CST February 17, 2021
NEW ORLEANS Bob Arthur hasn’t been waiting passively for justice in the four years since his 40-year-old son, Shawn, turned up dead in his Metairie apartment.
Bob Arthur hired private investigators and worked with a Huffington Post reporter for more than a year to gather evidence that finally convinced the Jefferson Parish coroner and the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office that Shawn’s death wasn’t an accident.
As The Biden Administration Begins Unwinding Them, Medicaid Work Experiments Remain Unreasonable, Unnecessary, And Harmful
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A killer at 14, his case led to second chances for juvenile murderers. He may soon learn his fate.
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Dozens of Alabama inmates convicted of murders when they were juveniles now have a shot at one day being released. That’s because of a federal ruling that stopped states from automatically locking up juveniles convicted of capital murder for life without a chance at parole.
But Evan Miller, the Alabama prisoner whose plea before the U.S. Supreme Court gave hope to those inmates and a few thousand others around the nation still awaits a ruling to see if he too gets that chance.
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New Rules Prohibiting the Government s Use of Certain ‘Guidance Documents May Reduce False Claims Liability for Health Care Providers Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Health care providers and others in the health sector have long complained at the unfairness of facing enforcement actions – and the fines and penalties that accompany them – for failure to follow a poorly publicized or otherwise obscure agency guidance such as a local coverage determination (LCD). In 2019, the United States Supreme Court provided significant relief when it held in
Azar v. Allina Health Services, 139 S. Ct. 1804 (2019), that an agency guidance that established or changed a “substantive legal standard” had to undergo a notice-and-comment process before adoption and enforcement. On Dec. 3, 2020, the Office of General Counsel for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS-OGC) issued an Advisory Opinion and two final rules that provide a roadmap as to how the ag
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President Biden s nominee to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has raised concerns among Republicans for a 2018 report in which he argued for the creation of a regulatory superagency that critics say could target conservative advocacy groups.
Rohit Chopra, currently a member of the Federal Trade Commission, helped Sen. Elizabeth Warren organize the agency after the 2008 financial crisis. He worked at the agency until joining the FTC in 2018.
The paper co-written by Chopra and Julie Margetta Morgan, who now works as a senior adviser in the Department of Education calls for a new agency that consolidates the overlapping mandates of inspectors general and the Government Accountability Office into a single agency with real powers to enforce and police corruption. It was published by the Roosevelt Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
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