Hamilton’s case highlights the need for a more comprehensive affirmative defense for victims who commit crimes while under a trafficker’s coercion. Texas reports as many as 1,700 victims of ...

China on Friday expressed "strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition" over an agreement between Japan and NATO earlier this week to step up defense industry cooperation, saying such a move escalates ...

Affirmative defenses protect educators from arrest and frivolous lawsuits over books or materials judged obscene by anyone in the community, writes Sara Stevenson. Removing these defenses can have ...

because the exemptions are affirmative defenses that must be raised by plans themselves when they move to dismiss lawsuits, resolving a circuit split on the issue. Sign up here. The justices ...

As an “affirmative defense” the government could go ahead with the prosecution, and the defendant would have to prove that they were not guilty. As a practical matter, this means that ...

SB 412 and HB 267 would remove this affirmative defense. This defense exists because, while some people provide explicit content to children to harm them, books that include sexual content have ...

The Court characterized the exemptions to ERISA § 406(a)’s prohibitions set forth in ERISA § 408 as “affirmative defenses,” which it held defendants bear the burden of pleading and proving.