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These Inspectors Think “Open for Business” Means “No Warrant Required”

Posted January 13, 202200:30:11

Jeremy Bennett had no idea that asking an Ohio Department of Natural Resources officer to come back when his taxidermy shop was open for the season...

When Can Your Past Bar You From a Job—And When Should It?

Posted January 5, 202200:33:13

In Virginia, any one of 176 so-called barrier crimes can disqualify a person from work in certain occupations for life—no matter how old the conviction,...

IJ at 30: IJ President Scott Bullock on the Cases and Clients that Changed IJ and the Law (A Deep Dive Best Of)

Posted September 28, 202100:30:58

Before he was IJ’s president, Scott Bullock spent 25 years as an IJ attorney. In this episode, he recounts his years in the trenches as a litigator,...

Will the Supreme Court overturn its infamous decision letting developers take your property?

Posted August 26, 202100:32:18

Though Susette Kelo’s fight to save her home from her city’s efforts to take it for a private developer ended in 2005, the fight against eminent...

These People Lost $85 Million in an L.A. Heist…and the Robber was the FBI

Posted August 9, 202100:31:07

In March 2021, FBI agents broke into private safe deposit boxes at the Southern California business U.S. Private Vaults and—though no individual box...