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Attorney General Sessions Delivers Remarks at the Heritage Foundation’s Legal Strategy Forum
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Washington, DC - Attorney General Sessions Delivers Remarks at the Heritage Foundation's Legal Strategy Forum - Thursday, October 26, 2017:
NIST Experts Urge Caution in Use of Courtroom Evidence Presentation Method
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Two experts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are calling into question a method of presenting evidence in courtrooms, arguing that it risks allowing personal preference to creep into expert testimony and potentially distorts evidence for a jury.
Department of Justice Highlights Consumer Benefits of Competition Among Court Reporters
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The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division Friday submitted a statement on the potential anticompetitive effects of legislative proposals that could result in a ban or limitation on contracts between local California court reporters or service firms and third parties, such as insurance companies, for more than one deposition at a time, also known as third-party contracts. Such regulation of court-reporting services can raise barriers to entry, restrict competition and limit potentially cost-saving options available to consumers.
Three Individuals Indicted for $2.5 Million High-Yield Investment Fraud
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Three individuals were charged in an indictment unsealed yesterday for their roles in a $2.5 million high-yield investment fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose of the Western District of North Carolina.
New York Attorney Charged In Scheme To Defraud In Connection With Northern District Litigation
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Joel Zweig, an attorney who resides in New York, was charged with wire fraud, obstruction of justice, perjury, aggravated identity theft, and false statements to a government agency announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett, and U.S. Postal Inspection Service Inspector in Charge Rafael Nuñez. The charges stem from allegations that Zweig attempted to manufacture evidence to prove losses suffered by a litigant in a federal case pending in the Northern District of California.
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