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Closing arguments wrapped up on May 20 in Floyd v. City of New York, the first trial to spotlight New York City’s controversial “stop and frisk” law enforcement program, which plaintiffs say amounts to unconstitutional racial profiling.   Data Indicated Problems Stop and frisk is a program used by the NYPD to stop, pat down, and question people who police believe are acting suspiciously. The stops peaked in 2011 at 700,000, according to ABC News, but dropped off in 2012 …

A hitchhiker who gained nationwide fame earlier this year for using a hatchet to break up a bizarre attack is back in the headlines. But this time, instead of being heralded as a hero, he’s being charged with murder. Caleb Lawrence McGillvary, known as “Kai the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker” ever since his television news interview became a viral video sensation, was arrested at a Philadelphia bus station Thursday and charged with the murder of 73-year-old Joseph Galfy, Jr. Authorities say McGillvary …

Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, are now taking their cases to the U.S. court of public opinion — with book and media tours. An Italian court in 2009 convicted them of murdering Amanda’s roommate, British exchange student, Meredith Kercher. Rudy Guede, a man with a criminal record, was also convicted of the murder. In 2011, an appellate court threw out Amanda’s and Raffaele’s convictions for lack of evidence. But in March 2013, Italy’s highest court demanded a …

California’s top lawyer has filed a suit against JPMorgan Chase for fraudulent and unlawful debt collection practices. Attorney General Kamala Harris accused the lender of burying California courts in thousands of debt collection lawsuits without verifying the validity of the suits or even serving the defendants with court papers. The suit specifically alleges a widespread practice of robosigning — signing hundreds of pages of legal paperwork without reading them — in JPMorgan Chase’s credit card collection efforts. JPMorgan Chase was …

As reported in Lawyers.com, a Florida couple is suing to get marijuana back from the Manatee County sheriff’s office. Cathy Jordan suffers from Lou Gehrig’s disease, and her husband says she needs the marijuana to alleviate her pain. Florida has not passed a law legalizing medicinal pot, although the state has an exception to its criminal statutes, prohibiting prosecution of the medical use of marijuana. Take our poll on government seizure of medical marijuana and compare your views with other …