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I read this piece in The Washington Post, ‘You’re going to get shot’: Video shows school police officer threatening student leaving campus with excused absence', today about police threatening to shoot the very children they are supposed to protect at school and I got...
The Government cannot legally look for sleeper cells of potential terrorists by detaining US citizens of Iranian origin randomly without evidence giving them suspicion.
I have previously blogged about the recent interest of the federal regulatory and law enforcement community in scholars who collaborate with Chinese institutions. January 2020 has increased the public profile of these investigations with the felony indictment against...
One thing I hear routinely from people of all political stripes is how disappointed they are in the United States of America. The nonstop drumbeat of negativity dominates the news, the politics and of course, the social media. The outrage and fury emanating from...
The US and China are increasingly in a Cold War. Our political systems differ dramatically. Tensions in geopolitical influence and specifically economic and military competition in the Pacific are significant. Recently, intellectual property theft and trade practices make the headlines. The competition between the two countries is real and serious.
Yes, Nacht & Roumel, P.C. does criminal law too. Attorney Nick Roumel just won a case in the Michigan Court of Appeals, reversing the trial court’s award of nearly $300,000 in restitution based on a guilty plea to a single count of attempted unauthorized practice...
Regular readers of the Nacht blog will note that I enjoy stories that prove principles but feature a cast of characters that differs from the typical. From the beginning I found it disturbing that the FBI spied on the Trump Presidential campaign. Yet many people...
A husband and wife working for the Michigan Department of Corrections filed a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination and retaliation. The suit resulted in an $11.4 million unanimous jury verdict award. Federal law protects employees from harassment, which includes any...
Michigan is the only state in the union that enacted laws prohibiting an employer from discriminating against an employee who is overweight. Whether someone is carrying a few extra pounds or is obese, an employer may not harass, humiliate, fire or hire based on an...
A HuffPost investigation shows hundreds of working mothers across the United States continue to be discriminated against over breastfeeding their children. The report details 376 federal investigations from 2010 through 2018. Complaints continue despite the enactment...