Any decent person who saw the video of the police officer suffocating a man on the ground was horrified. Why was it a news story when the jury found the officer guilty?  It was newsworthy precisely because the crime captured a national conversation about policing and...

This story, "Florida school principal, daughter arrested for allegedly hacking student accounts to cast homecoming votes", is a distraction from real life but it tells us a bit about ourselves.   I am not sure that state law enforcement should be focused on...

In my last blog post, "Violence Against Women", I discussed how misogyny plagues our society and results in assault rape and murder and how fear of the same alters the socialization of women and the role of women in our culture. I want to focus on another aspect of...

There are many conversations worth having as a result of any tragedy. The Atlanta massage parlor murders should cause several.   One is the view of Asian women in our culture; another is the view of Asian-Americans of both genders.  These issues have gotten...

Attorney David Nacht is representing Mr. Ward in connection with his assault by East Cleveland police.   David Nacht says his client has a permanent scar and was "assaulted by officers."   The video and full Fox 8 News article, "Investigation underway after video...

When suspects show disrespect or force police to chase them, some police officers are more inclined to use violence regardless of the actual need to do so.  I have never believed that was most police officers.  But it happens sufficiently often that it has led to a...

In recent years, conservatives have championed the gig economy to make it cheaper and easier to hire people to do work without paying benefits.  Liberals, who have fought for rights that go with employee status, such as the right not to be subject to discrimination,...

In January 2021, firm principal David Nacht won a victory for a real estate entrepreneur who left his former employer to consult for an innovative start-up real estate agency. The entrepreneur was hit with a thirteen-count lawsuit alleging everything from breach of a...

In the late 1960s-1970s, China empowered young people to accuse elders of thought crimes and hidden capitalist agendas.  Professors and other intellectuals were made to face public shame and removed from their positions.  Sometimes they were sent to re-education...

As readers of this blog know, I have called attention to the dangerous and widespread practice of allowing police to lie to suspects.  Obviously, sometimes this tactic works. But one cannot prove that this tactic works by looking to a confession as proof of guilt....