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Mother who tried to pass off suffocated 12-day-old baby in 'filthy' trailer as SIDS death admits to more serious charges after new info comes to light
Inset: Allysen Armenta. Background: Allysen Armenta's newborn baby (KBOI). An Idaho mother who tried to pass off the suffocation death of her 12-day-old baby as sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) has pleaded guilty to more serious charges than she initially intended...
California Court of Appeal Tentatively Holds That Collecting a Website Visitor’s IP Address Alone Does Not Constitute Pen Register Activity Under CIPA
The California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, has issued its tentative ruling in Variety Media, LLC v. Superior Court, the closely watched writ proceeding that asks whether the pen register provisions of the California Invasion of Privacy Act...
Beyond the Floodplain: The Levee Was Dry Expands Its Focus
Friends and Colleagues,Since its launch, The Levee Was Dry has served as a forum for commentary on flood risk and floodplain management. As the legal and policy issues shaping California’s and the United States’ water landscape continue to evolve, so too...
SEC Announces 37% Decrease in Registration Fee Rates Effective October 1, 2026
On August 21, 2026, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a decrease in the fees that public companies and other issuers will be required to pay to register their securities, from $138.10 per million dollars to $87.00 per million...
AI Contracts Are Quietly Becoming The Best Product Documentation
For years, contracts and product documentation lived in separate worlds. If you wanted to understand how software actually worked, you talked to the product team, read the technical documentation, or sat through a product demo. If you wanted to understand the legal...
Nine Wins Out Of Ten At The Supreme Court, Before Heading To The Federal Judiciary
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Who was the first Black woman ever to serve as a federal judge? She argued 10 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and won nine of them — a record most advocates would kill for — while...
The Abrego Garcia Appeal Is A Trojan Horse — See Also
The DOJ Is Using One Vindictive Prosecution To Help Kill The Doctrine Altogether: Funny timing, given how the vindictive prosecutions are piling up. Milbank Plants Its Flag In Chicago… Now About That Salary Match, Kirkland? A new office, an energy-transition...
Supreme Court allows Trump administration to move forward with order imposing restrictions on mail-in voting
The Supreme Court on Monday afternoon cleared the way for the Trump administration to begin implementing an executive order, signed by President Donald Trump earlier this year, that imposes restrictions on mail-in voting. The court paused an injunction by a federal...
Nevada National Guard responds to Hawk Fire near Reno
Flight and support crews for one CH-47 Chinook and one UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter are helping with aerial bucket drops, and 60 Nevada National Guard Response Force troops are assisting police with neighborhood security and evacuations.