My entire legal career has revolved around cases involving children. In the four years I was a prosecutor I prosecuted cases in juvenile court and many adult cases involving child victims. In the ten years that I have worked as a magistrate at the Juvenile Court I have spent nearly every day dealing with juveniles who have committed offenses (often against other juveniles) or adults who have abused or neglected their kids.
No company protects its intellectual property as fully or vigorously as the Walt Disney Corporation.
Juvenile courts are an unusual creature in that they have multi-faceted and sometimes contradictory goals.
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
Each Supreme Court term seems to have at least one blockbuster case that defines the Court’s year and attracts 95% of the attention paid to the Court in that session.
As a child of the mid-1970s, I grew up relishing my trips in Fred Rogers’ neighborhood. With his trademark calm, he reinforced the lessons that my parents taught me about dealing with others, respecting adults and spending every day learning something new about the world around me.
It may be cold and snowing in Ohio, but our Major League Baseball teams kicked off their spring training schedules with games against each other on Saturday and Sunday (the Tribe won both times). As a baseball fan, the start of spring training tells me that my favorite sport will soon be back to meaningful games. As a resident of Ohio, the start of spring training tells me that I should only need my snow shovel for another four to six weeks.
There is little doubt that the ascension to the Presidency came as a shock to Theodore Roosevelt. His boss, William McKinley, was less than a year into his second four-year term. The two-term President and his wife travelled to Buffalo, New York to take in the Pan-American Exposition in the fall of 1901. The Vice-President was not with them.
