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What Does Bill Cosby’s Overturned Conviction Mean for Your Fifth Amendment Rights Against Self-Incrimination?

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The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania recently overturned Bill Cosby’s 2018 conviction for crimes of sexual assault. Most have focused on the justness of this outcome. But the court’s 79-page opinion also has implications for how...more

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Failure to Disclose Not Justified by Non-Fifth Circuit Authorities

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Lisa Velasquez Olivarez claimed that a GEO employee sexually assaulted her while she was incarcerated in the Maverick County Detention Center. She made recorded phone calls from prison to her mother and a friend, suggesting...more

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Rolling Stone Rolls With Early Favorable Rulings

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Rolling Stone is not the first media outlet to defend itself in a multi-million dollar trial this year. Gawker Media was recently hit with a $140 million judgment resulting from a suit by Terry Bollea (a.k.a. Hulk Hogan) for...more

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New Lessons from Cosby: Confidential Doesn’t Always Mean Confidential

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How, after all these years, did the truth about Bill Cosby finally come out? It happened on July 6, 2015 when a federal judge in Philadelphia ordered that documents filed in a lawsuit by one of Cosby’s accusers 10 years...more

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