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This week we start our legal news offshoot series, Sh*thole States! First up, New Jersey & West Virginia. Find out how they started as sh*tholes and why they are still sh*tholes today.  

Links:

http://www.softschools.com/facts/13_colonies/new_jersey_colony_facts/2042/

http://nymag.com/news/features/scandals/edward-hyde-2012-4/

https://dmna.ny.gov/forts/fortsE_L/georgeFort.htm

https://dmna.ny.gov/forts/maps/fortMapA_Manhatten.html

http://nj1015.com/jersey-scandals-a-quick-history-of-corruption-in-nj-politics/

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/abscam

http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2011/02/brennan_trust_fund_tied_to_pon.html

https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2007/lr20170.htm

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-departments-seeks-to-toss-out-charges-against-sen-menendez/2018/01/31/19a3094c-06a8-11e8-b48c-b07fea957bd5_story.html

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/12/nj_ag_79_charged_with_unspeakable_child_predator_c.html#incart_river_home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFDxoPv501c

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_West_Virginia

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hatfields-and-McCoys

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=14754006790532935053&q=Mahon+v.+Justice,++127+U.S.+700&hl=en&as_sdt=6,31&as_vis=1

http://www.courtswv.gov/supreme-court/docs/fall1993/21973.htm

http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1905706,00.html

https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1097&context=faculty_publications

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/05/us/work-by-expert-witness-is-now-on-trial.html

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/371493-congressional-investigation-finds-drug-distributors-shipped-20-million-pain

https://energycommerce.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180126Miami-Luken.pdf

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/31/politics/congress-train-accident/index.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b72RbYCiwH8

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