Rep. Ted Lieu to Deliver 2021 Commencement Address May 4, 2021
U.S. Representative Ted Lieu (D-California) will deliver the keynote address to the UCLA School of Law Class of 2021 at the law school’s virtual commencement ceremony on May 21.
Rep. Lieu is the congressman who represents UCLA and surrounding neighborhoods in Washington, and he has visited UCLA and the law school several times since his election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2014. He is admired as one of the staunchest advocates for civil rights, the environment, and issues surrounding technology, among many other things.
Before entering politics, Lieu was an active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force, in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, and he currently serves as a colonel in the Reserves. His distinguished record includes a clerkship on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, work as a litigator at Munger, Tolles & Olson, and terms as a member of the California State Senate, State Assemb
Ethic Adds Former CFTC Chair Timothy Massad as Strategic Advisor
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Ethic Inc. (“Ethic”), the tech-driven asset management platform that powers personalization for advisors, today announced the addition of former Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chair Timothy Massad as a strategic advisor. In this capacity, Mr. Massad will draw from his deep understanding of financial markets and the regulatory landscape including the rapidly evolving role of environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures, and the accelerating pace of innovation in financial services to offer strategic guidance that supports Ethic’s rapid growth trajectory.
Massad led the CFTC, the independent government agency tasked with regulatory oversight of the derivatives markets, from 2014 to 2017. In that capacity, he played an instrumental role in implementing vital swaps market regulatio
A lawsuit alleging First Amendment violations against an Allegheny County Common Pleas judge has been formally dismissed.
In March, the Abolitionist Law Center’s Court Watch program sued Judge Anthony M. Mariani in federal court alleging that he was refusing to provide access to proceedings before him.
The program alleged that its court watchers had requested virtual access to more than 100 proceedings in Mariani’s courtroom, but he refused them each time.
However, a few days after the lawsuit was filed, Mariani began granting remote access.
In late March, court administrators issued an order requiring all Common Pleas and magistrate judges to continue to offer the public access to remote proceedings through June 30.
After George Floydâs murder, this NOPD training program went national
EPIC teaches officers to keep each other in check by showing them how to intervene. Share Updated: 8:15 AM CDT May 3, 2021
EPIC teaches officers to keep each other in check by showing them how to intervene. Share Updated: 8:15 AM CDT May 3, 2021
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Show Transcript RANDI: IN THE YEAR AFTER GEORGE FLOYDâS DEATH, MORE THAN 100 LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY HAVE TRAINED THEIR OFFICERS ON HOW TO INTERVENE THE ROOTS OF THIS INNOVATIVE PROGRAM ARE RIGHT HERE IN NEW ORLEANS. WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH OUR INVESTIGATES TEEN TO LOOK DEEPER INTO THIS PROGRAM THAT ONE LEADER SAYS COULD SAVE CAREERS, AND LIVES. IâM CONVINCED THAT IF ONE PERSON, ONE OF THOSE OFFICERS WOULD HAVE INTERVENED, GEORGE FLOYD WOULD BE ALIVE TODAY. AND THIS, YOU KNOW, WE PROBABLY WOULDNâT BE EVEN HAVING THIS CONVERSATION RIGHT NOW EMILY: MINNEAPOLIS COP DEREK CHAUVIN
Tammy Allison joins the list of candidates for the 6
th Congressional District seat. I didn t ask to run,” Allison said. “The residents and people of District 6 did. I ve been a public servant in the executive branch for my entire career. Stepping up to the plate to answer this call feels like a natural part of my journey to serve others. A first-generation Nigerian-American, Allison has undergone several challenging life obstacles such as childhood sexual abuse, domestic violence, and more but has used that to fuel the very things she fights for politically. Though Allison was born and raised in Texas, she spent more than a decade in Washington D.C. before moving back to Grand Prairie a couple of years ago. She brings her experience under the Obama Administration as a senior attorney and a federal prosecutor for the U.S. Department of Justice to the table. Several Federal District Courts, the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. are just a few of the other p