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Big news at Fairlie & Lippy – Steven Fairlie has been invited to the American Society of Legal Advocates for the 2013 Top 100 Criminal Defense lawyers. He practices Criminal Defense and Personal Injury in Montgomery County, Bucks County, and the surrounding areas. Membership in the American Society of Legal Advocates is by ivitation only. […]

A Judge has ordered that Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes must be available for deposition by the lawyer of a man who was in prison for 16 years because the prosecution convicted him – allegedly based upon threats made to coerce witnesses to lie at trial. A federal Judge agreed with the allegations enough […]

On June 11, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed lawsuits against Dollar General and a BMW facility in South Carolina for allegedly using criminal background checks of potential employees in an unfair and discriminatory manner. This comes just over a year after the EEOC updated its rules in April 2012 to prevent racial discrimination, […]

Yesterday was a sad day for the Fifth Amendment when the United States Supreme Court issued its decision on Salinas v. Texas. In Salinas, the court sought to answer the question: can the prosecution use a person’s silence against him when he refuses to answer questions during pre-custodial questioning without expressly invoking his Fifth Amendment […]

Last week, the United State Supreme Court issued its opinion on United States v. Davila. The Court sought to answer the question: when a federal judge gives nonprejudicial advice to the defendant during plea bargaining and the defendant pleads guilty, is the appropriate remedy to vacate the guilty plea? In a unanimous decision, the Court […]