by nclaadmin | Apr 9, 2019 | Opinion
Originally published in the Salt Lake Tribune on April 9, 2019 Clark Aposhian, a resident of Utah, is now the last man in America who can legally own a bump stock. Last month, a formal bump stock ban went into effect. The ban ordered anyone who lawfully purchased one...
by NCLA | Jun 4, 2019 | Opinion, Peggy Little
Originally published in New York Law Journal on June 4, 2019 Download PDF version here When government agencies such as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) bring charges, their press releases are...
by NCLA | Jun 17, 2019 | Opinion
Originally published in Bloomberg Law on June 17, 2019 Fresno, Calif., police officers may have just gotten away with grand larceny. The Ninth Circuit recently passed on the opportunity to establish—once-and-for-all—that police officers stealing private property while...
by NCLA | Jul 8, 2019 | Opinion
Originally published in Washington Examiner on July 8, 2019Robert Shipp is serving the remainder of a federal prison sentence on an ankle monitor in Chicago, Illinois. But Shipp is being held unlawfully by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.Even though he was due to be...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Apr 8, 2020 | Opinion
Like the velociraptors testing the perimeter of their enclosure in Jurassic Park, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has begun probing the weaknesses in the statute that is supposed to fence the agency’s authority. The case of Monex Deposit Company...