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Jan 9, 2025 | 
nature.com | Martin Schwartz
Atherosclerosis and other vascular inflammatory diseases are determined by the balance between pro- and anti-inflammatory pathways. A report now identifies IGFBP6 as a component of an anti-inflammatory, protective program in vascular endothelial cells and demonstrates that major vault protein is the key downstream effector.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
law.com | Martin Schwartz
News The author writes "A §1983 action for damages may be based on suppression of evidence in violation of Brady due process rights, However, because a §1983 Brady claim necessarily implicates the validity of a conviction, the claim is not cognizable until the conviction has been overturned. Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994).
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
law.com | Martin Schwartz
Who Got The Work Michael G. Bongiorno, Andrew Scott Dulberg and Elizabeth E. Driscoll from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr have stepped in to represent Symbotic Inc., an A.I.-enabled technology platform that focuses on increasing supply chain efficiency, and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The case, filed Oct.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
law.com | Martin Schwartz
Lack of probable cause is an essential element of a Section 1983 Fourth Amendment malicious prosecution claim. What if the plaintiff was prosecuted on multiple criminal charges and there was probable cause for one charge but not another charge? In Chiaverini v. City of Napoleon, 144 S. Ct. 1745 (2024), the court held that probable cause on one charge does not preclude a Section 1983 malicious prosecution claim based on lack of probable cause on another charge.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
law.com | Martin Schwartz
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently issued an important decision on the use of taser force against a passively resisting suspect. In Saalim v. Walmart, 97 F. 4th 995 (6th Cir. 2024), the court held that the officer’s tasing of a suspect who was only passively resisting the officer violated clearly established Fourth Amendment law. The dissent would have ruled for the officer based on qualified immunity.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
bilzin.com | Martin Schwartz
This year’s 150 plus pages condominium bill CS/CS/CS/HB 1021 (“HB 1021”) containing amendments to the Condominium Act created a new Section 718.407 entitled “Condominiums created within a portion of a building or within a multiple parcel building.” It provides for, among other things, statutory recognition of what is known in the industry as a “vertical subdivision,” a building containing more than one type of primary use in a single structure.
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May 6, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Emily Saul |Abigail Adcox |Martin Schwartz |Roger Bennet Adler
Jurors seated in Donald Trump’s criminal trial on Monday began viewing the checks prosecutors allege the former president cut to Michael Cohen as part of a scheme to suppress negative information about the then-candidate during the 2016 presidential election cycle. The checks constitute the 34 felony counts of falsifying business records for which Trump was indicted and is standing trial. Want to continue reading?
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May 6, 2024 | 
law.com | Martin Schwartz
Section 1983 is the remedial machinery for enforcing the Fourteenth Amendment. An essential element of a §1983 claim for relief is that the defendant acted under color of state law. The Fourteenth Amendment due process and equal protection clauses, and the incorporated Bill of Rights, apply to state action, not private action. Color of law under §1983 and state action under the Fourteenth Amendment mean the same thing.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
law.com | Martin Schwartz
Fourth Amendment law provides that police use of force during an arrest, stop or other seizure must be reasonable. In Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386 (1989), the court ruled that whether police use of force violates the Fourth Amendment depends on whether it is the type of force that a reasonable officer could have used in the circumstances. But Graham is just the starting point.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
dialnet.unirioja.es | Martin Schwartz
ResumenThis paper expands the evidence and arguments for the view, championed by Franklin E. Horowitz’s contribution to this volume, that *penkWe, the PIE word for ‘five’, is based on a form originally meaning ‘hand’. Horowitz’s view is preliminarily supported by citation of etymological parallels for his analysis of Lat. pignus and propinquus. After discussion of materials submitted by E. Polomé, W. Lehmann, and N.
