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The Truth Will Out – Even About Mar-a-Lago
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December 27, 2025
The Truth Will Out – Even About Mar-a-Lago
By: James Trusty
The Truth Will Out is a fairly obscure phrase that was popularized in Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.” It suggests that even against the most active obstruction and obfuscation, the Truth seemingly has an invisible hand behind it that relentlessly—if slowly—pushes it into plain view. Nearly 2 ½ years after the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago, the Truth may be emerging into the daylight. August 8, 2022 will stay imprinted in my memories like no other day. Then Former-President Trump had retained me a couple of months earlier. I was still getting to know the various players that formed his legal team as well as the many others who offered advice or service to the President, and I knew there was…
White-Collar Sentencing Under the Amended Guidelines: Fewer Steps, Same Dance
November 12, 2025
White-Collar Sentencing Under the Amended Guidelines: Fewer Steps, Same Dance
By: Robert Ward
For years, the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s Guidelines Manual has guided courts through a three-step process to determine the sentence to be imposed. At a high level, that process looked like this: First, the court would calculate the guideline range based on relevant offense conduct and related factors, along with the defendant’s criminal history. Second, the court would consider the Sentencing Commission’s policy statements or commentary…
Personal Information Flo-wing out of Control
October 20, 2025
Personal Information Flo-wing out of Control
By: Lauren Scribner
In September, a nearly $60 million settlement was reached in Frasco, et al v. Flo Health, Inc., Meta Platforms, Inc., Google, LLC, and Flurry, Inc. The case,[1] a class action filed in 2021, alleged inter alia that Flo Health Inc. (“Flo”), a popular women’s health tracking application estimated to have over 38 million monthly users, invaded the privacy of its users by sharing personal and…
U.S. Court of Appeals Decision: Cell Location Data is Protected Under Individual’s Expectation of Privacy
July 2, 2014
U.S. Court of Appeals Decision: Cell Location Data is Protected Under Individual’s Expectation of Privacy
By: Jeffrey Hamlin
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit recently considered whether cell site location data is protected by the Fourth Amendment. On June 11, 2014, the court issued its decision in favor of privacy rights: the court held that cell site location information is within the cell phone subscriber’s reasonable expectation of privacy. If officers want the data, they must obtain the subscriber’s consent…
Court: Police Need Warrant to Search Phone. But Guess What? They Get to Keep Your Phone While They Get One.
June 26, 2014
Court: Police Need Warrant to Search Phone. But Guess What? They Get to Keep Your Phone While They Get One.
By: Jeff Ifrah
Will cops still get access to cell phone data post arrest? You bet. Today’s Supreme Court decision just means they need to get permission from a judge before they start searching who you have been texting. And odds are very good, that permission will be granted. In a unanimous decision authored by Chief Justice Roberts, the United States Supreme Court held that law enforcement officers…
Supreme Court Denies Cert. in New Jersey Sports Betting Case
June 23, 2014
Supreme Court Denies Cert. in New Jersey Sports Betting Case
By: Ifrah Law
Today, the United States Supreme Court denied New Jersey’s petition for a writ of certiorari to hear an appeal from lower court decisions that invalidated its sports wagering law. This ends a three year fight to bring sports betting to New Jersey’s casinos and racetracks, but NJ State Senator Raymond Lesniak, who has spearheaded efforts to bring sports betting to the state has vowed to…
Mock Twitter Account Raid Results in Marijuana Arrest
May 27, 2014
Mock Twitter Account Raid Results in Marijuana Arrest
By: Ifrah Law
Last month police raided the home of an Illinois man who created a parody Twitter account of his city’s mayor. No charges were brought against the man because the prosecutor determined that no crime had been committed, however the man’s roommate has been indicted for possession of marijuana that was found during the overzealous raid of their residence. Jon Daniel created the Twitter account @peoriamayor…
The Taxman Cometh for US Holders of Foreign Bank Accounts
May 22, 2014
The Taxman Cometh for US Holders of Foreign Bank Accounts
By: Nicole Kardell
U.S. citizens and residents with unreported assets abroad may be feeling a steady increase of pressure these days. The July 1, 2014 effective date of the Foreign Assets Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) is looming. The number of countries that have agreed to enforce FATCA is growing (almost daily). That means the banks in those countries will be required to report U.S. citizens’ assets to the…
