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## How Defense Sleuths Are Forging Ahead Despite A Pandemic

Across the country, thousands of investigators who help build cases for indigent defendants are adjusting to a new reality in which field work is "pretty much shut down." Though arrests have slowed and many court proceedings are on hold, investigators say their work can't stop. Read full article

## Victims' Rights Suffer Blow In Epstein Case

In the latest twist in the Jeffrey Epstein saga, a split Eleventh Circuit panel ruled last week that the protections of the Crime Victims' Rights Act do not arise until after a formal criminal charge has been filed. For Epstein's victims, it could mark the end of a 12-year-long legal challenge - and for the victims' rights movement, it could be a lasting blow. Read full article

## Virus Forces Transparency Reckoning Among Highest Courts

Since coronavirus concerns shuttered courthouses nationwide, the U.S. Supreme Court and some appellate judges have given in to livestream technology. Transparency advocates welcome this development and hope the practice will continue even after the pandemic ends. Read full article

## Analysis Amid Pandemic, Hearings For Detained Migrant Kids Go On

As federal courts close their doors during the coronavirus pandemic, immigration court proceedings for migrant children in government custody are moving forward. Attorneys told Law360 that continuing these hearings risks children's health and threatens due process. Read full article

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## Q&A

## Coping With A Pandemic: Pine Tree's Nan Heald

With distancing and isolation the new norm amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Law360 is sharing reactions from around the business and legal community. Today's perspective comes from Maine-based Nan Heald, executive director at Pine Tree Legal Assistance. Read full article

## Homeless Angelenos Get Due Process Win Over City Seizures

In January 2019, Janet Garcia returned from getting ready for work to find that all of her belongings had been seized and destroyed by the Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation. Read full article

## Bail Bond Groups Can't Sink Calif. Price-Fixing Suit

For those who turn to bail bonds in California, the cost of getting oneself or a loved one out of prison while awaiting a court date can be steep, but a proposed class action now poised to move forward contends there's more to those rates than honest market forces. Read full article

## Pro Bono Spotlight O'Melveny Helps Reunite Family Amid COVID-19 Fears

When three young siblings found themselves detained 50 miles from their father's home in Maryland, with the government moving to deport them rather than reunite the family, it was the latest hardship in a journey fraught with danger. Read full article

## Perspectives
COVID-19 Highlights Access Injustice In Personal Bankruptcy

In the age of enforced social distancing, the limits on access to electronic filing means bankruptcy is paradoxically only available to those individuals who can afford it, says Rohan Pavuluri at Upsolve. Read full article

## Perspectives

## Inmate Release Exhaustion Rule Should Be Waived For COVID

The issue at the forefront of many compassionate release applications during the pandemic has been whether federal courts must wait 30 days before they can rule on them due to the statutory administrative exhaustion requirement, and those 30 days could become a matter of life or death, says Jolene Lavigne-

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## Inmate Release Exhaustion Rule Should Be Waived For COVID (cont.)

<table><tr><th>Nixon Peabody</th></tr><tr><td>Norton Rose</td></tr><tr><td>O'Melveny &amp; Myers</td></tr><tr><td>Ogletree Deakins</td></tr><tr><td>Orrick</td></tr><tr><td>Paul Hastings</td></tr><tr><td>Pepper Hamilton</td></tr><tr><td>Perkins Coie</td></tr><tr><td>Pierce Bainbridge</td></tr><tr><td>Pryor Cashman</td></tr><tr><td>Reed Smith</td></tr><tr><td>Rivkin Radler</td></tr><tr><td>Ropes &amp; Gray</td></tr><tr><td>Schiff Hardin</td></tr><tr><td>Schlam Stone</td></tr><tr><td>Seyfarth Shaw</td></tr><tr><td>Sheppard Mullin</td></tr><tr><td>Shook Hardy</td></tr><tr><td>Sidley Austin</td></tr><tr><td>Simmons &amp; Simmons</td></tr><tr><td>Slaughter and May</td></tr><tr><td>Snell &amp; Wilmer</td></tr><tr><td>Squire Patton Boggs</td></tr><tr><td>Stoel Rives</td></tr><tr><td>Thompson HD</td></tr><tr><td>Troutman Sanders</td></tr><tr><td>Vinson &amp; Elkins</td></tr><tr><td>Williams &amp; Connolly</td></tr><tr><td>Wilson Sonsini</td></tr><tr><td>Winston &amp; Strawn</td></tr><tr><td>Womble Bond Dickinson</td></tr><tr><td>COMPANIES</td></tr><tr><td>3M Co.</td></tr><tr><td>Aeropostale Inc.</td></tr><tr><td>American Immigration</td></tr><tr><td>Lawyers Association</td></tr><tr><td>Apple Inc.</td></tr><tr><td>Brooklyn Defender Services</td></tr><tr><td>Burford Capital LLC</td></tr><tr><td>CDI Corporation</td></tr><tr><td>Cable News Network Inc.</td></tr><tr><td>Ernst &amp; Young LLP</td></tr><tr><td>Facebook Inc.</td></tr></table>

## Inmate Release Exhaustion Rule Should Be Waived For COVID (cont.)

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## Inmate Release Exhaustion Rule Should Be Waived For COVID (cont.)

<table><tr><th>Google Inc.</th></tr><tr><td>Instagram Inc.</td></tr><tr><td>Johnson &amp; Johnson</td></tr><tr><td>Kids in Need of Defense</td></tr><tr><td>Legal Aid Foundation of Los</td></tr><tr><td>Angeles</td></tr><tr><td>LinkedIn Corp.</td></tr><tr><td>Monsanto Co.</td></tr><tr><td>Orleans Public Defenders</td></tr><tr><td>Philip Morris International</td></tr><tr><td>Inc.</td></tr><tr><td>Pine Tree Legal Assistance</td></tr><tr><td>Inc.</td></tr><tr><td>Skype Technologies SA</td></tr><tr><td>Sonos Inc.</td></tr><tr><td>Spotify Technology SA</td></tr><tr><td>The Walt Disney Co.</td></tr><tr><td>Twitter Inc.</td></tr><tr><td>GOVERNMENT</td></tr><tr><td>AGENCIES</td></tr><tr><td>California Department of</td></tr><tr><td>Insurance</td></tr><tr><td>California Supreme Court</td></tr><tr><td>Executive Office for</td></tr><tr><td>Immigration Review</td></tr><tr><td>Federal Trade Commission</td></tr><tr><td>Food and Drug</td></tr><tr><td>Administration</td></tr><tr><td>Los Angeles Homeless</td></tr><tr><td>Services Authority</td></tr><tr><td>New Jersey Office of the</td></tr><tr><td>Public Defender</td></tr><tr><td>New Jersey Supreme Court</td></tr><tr><td>Occupational Safety and</td></tr><tr><td>Health Administration</td></tr><tr><td>Pennsylvania Supreme</td></tr><tr><td>Court</td></tr><tr><td>Securities and Exchange</td></tr><tr><td>Commission</td></tr><tr><td>Small Business</td></tr><tr><td>Administration</td></tr><tr><td>U.S. Attorney's Office</td></tr><tr><td>U.S. Court of Appeals for</td></tr><tr><td>the Second Circuit</td></tr><tr><td>U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Third Circuit</td></tr></table>

## Inmate Release Exhaustion Rule Should Be Waived For COVID (cont.)

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Treasury

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Southern District of New
York

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Customs Enforcement
U.S. Supreme Court

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