On August 11th, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a bill barring grand juries from deciding on charges in cases involving police use of lethal force. The thinking behind the bill was that grad juries are often “shrouded in scerecy” and enable prosecutors to escape accountability to the public.
©2015 Bloomberg News NYED7N6JIJUS (Bloomberg) — Twelve of the biggest dealers in the interest-rate swap trading market were accused in a lawsuit of conspiring to block fund managers from entering the exchange market. The antitrust complaint filed in New York federal court by a public pension fund names most of