CASE PREVIEW


By David Kwok

on Nov 25, 2022
at 3:21 pm

wide view of riverfront city skyline

Ciminelli v. United States involves a bid-rigging scandal connected with a development project in Buffalo, New York (seen above). (Dekema via Wikimedia Commons)

Over the past 40 years, the Supreme Court has repeatedly expressed concern about the breadth of federal criminal prosecutions under the mail and wire fraud laws. The court’s decisions have narrowed the scope of federal power, particularly in recognizing the right of state and local governments to operate without undue federal influence. In Ciminelli v. United States, which will be argued on Monday, the court returns to similar concerns with a New York bid-rigging case. Did a government contractor take criminal advantage of his contacts within state government?

In 2012, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo launched a $1 billion campaign to develop the greater Buffalo area in project “Buffalo Billion.” The Fort Schuyler Management

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Yesterday I was on a panel at a conference in Warsaw, listening to a retired German professor sitting next to me, saying that Europe is going to lose badly to China, in terms of economic gains, because its workforce is not able to compete in terms of educational rigor. The professor said this is one deleterious effect of open migration, bringing in large numbers of people into Europe who must be educated and accommodated, but who do not have the cultural capital to fully participate in an advanced industrial democracy. The professor’s point was that Europe’s bleeding heart for Third World migrants is rendering it unfit for competition. He mentioned German factories that had relocated to China looking for qualified workers.

I thought about that when I saw this news just now, from the WSJ:

An American Bar Association panel voted Friday to drop a requirement that law school applicants

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By Lucie Olejnikova

GlobaLex September/October 2022 issue is live featuring eight updates: Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bolivian Legal Framework, Côte d’Ivoire in English and in French, Dominican Republic, Turkmenistan, and the International Commercial Arbitration. Webmasters and content managers, please update your pages. We thank all our wonderful authors, new and established, for their excellent contributions and commitment to open access authorship!

UPDATE: A Guide to the Republic of Azerbaijan Law Research by Ramil Iskandarli at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Azerbaijan1.html.

Ramil Iskandarli is a Chairman of Board of the Legal Analysis and Research Public Union in Azerbaijan. He holds an LL.M. in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt Oder, Germany. Ramil is teaching in the Social Sciences faculty at Baku State University. He is an alumnus of the leadership program in Executive Education at the Harvard Kennedy School (2017), Chevening Fellowship Program on Human Rights Law at the University of

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Taylor Young


November 18, 2022
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By Kalvis Golde

on Nov 18, 2022
at 2:31 pm

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