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• July 24, 2026

  Fordham Scholar On Neuroscience's Role In Criminal Courts

  Neuroscience has become an increasingly common feature of criminal litigation, shaping everything from death penalty mitigation to juvenile sentencing. Yet many of the assumptions surrounding brain science in the courtroom remain wrong, Fordham Law School Professor Deborah Denno told Law360.

• July 24, 2026

  How Gibson Dunn Turned A Bitter Pill Into A Sweet Release

  Police officers in New York's Nassau County arrested a Salvadoran and turned him over to federal immigration officers this year after claiming a yellow pill found in his car was crack cocaine, an assertion that a federal judge found ludicrous. Here, Law360 examines how Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP seized on that yellow pill to show the man’s arrest was pretextual and secured his release from immigration detention.

• July 24, 2026

  'Irreparable': The Lasting Harm Of Justices' Temporary Orders

  The U.S. Supreme Court has considered dozens of emergency petitions involving executive policies since President Donald Trump's return to office. While justices often defend their emergency rulings as stop-gap measures, people at the center of those cases — who've lost their legal status, jobs, or federal funding — say that even interim decisions have had lasting effects on their lives.

• July 24, 2026

  Ala. Ruling Leaves Executions In Uncharted Waters

  Last month, a federal district judge ruled that Alabama's nitrogen hypoxia execution protocol violated the Eighth Amendment, an unprecedented decision that upended the state's death penalty process. Now, death row prisoners who chose nitrogen execution face uncertainty as Alabama seeks to execute them instead by lethal injection.

• July 24, 2026

  Mental Health Agency Sues Mass. Prison System For Records

  A Massachusetts mental health legal advocacy committee has filed a lawsuit against the state's department of correction, claiming it was denied access to data about health services provided in one state prison by a private contractor.

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