JURIST

OCTOBER 20, 2023

A court ruling allowed him to travel to London, England for medical treatment with the expectation that he would return to Pakistan to serve his jail term. According to Sharif’s lawyer Azam Nazeer Tarar, Sharif will appeal against his sentence, as he hopes to overturn his convictions and campaign for the general election.

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Mondaq

JUNE 16, 2022

The Court's decision affirms the benefits of experienced legal representation when facing serious traffic charges.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Appellate courts issued a bevy of important decisions applying federal benefits law in 2023, including a recent Second Circuit ruling in favor of Cornell University that deepened a circuit split and a Tenth Circuit finding that an Oklahoma law regulating pharmacy benefit managers was preempted.

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JURIST

MARCH 1, 2024

A Belarus court declared the article contained “extremist” sentiments. He was not given access to a lawyer, and his trial was delayed. In a second case out of Belarus, Viktar Babaryka, a 2020 presidential candidate, was arrested while submitting the signatures necessary to be placed on the presidential ballot.

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LLRX

MAY 30, 2022

Kathy Biehl is a lawyer licensed in two states, as well as a prolific multidisciplinary author and writer. In this article Biehl succinctly and expertly identifies how the upcoming Supreme Court decision in Dobbs V. Wade has been settled law during her entire career.

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Supreme Court on Monday summarily reversed a federal appeals court decision on behalf of a death-row inmate who claimed that his trial lawyer…

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JURIST

AUGUST 11, 2023

Mark Paoletta, Thomas’s friend and lawyer to Thomas’s wife Ginni, accused ProPublica of launching a partisan attack on Thomas and said the report “ does not mention Judicial Conference’s previous guidance that Justice Thomas didn’t have to disclose trips w/ friends.”

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JURIST

JUNE 9, 2022

The APPGDC reviewed UK Supreme Court decisions, heard testimony from lawyers and judges, and reviewed public statements from Johnson and other member of his government. The report also cited alleged statements through a government source saying Johnson “ wants to get the judges sorted.”

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Mondaq

JULY 25, 2022

Supreme Court decision that provides guidance on an employee's duty to reasonably mitigate his or her damage or losses on termination. Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd., 2022 BCSC 881 is a recent B.C.

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JURIST

JUNE 8, 2023

United States that in order to constitute aggravated identity theft, the use of a person’s identity must be at the “crux” of what makes the conduct criminal, reversing a lower court decision. The opinion provides analogies including “a lawyer who rounds up her hours from 2.9

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 15, 2022

The Supreme Court Could Foster a New Kind of Civil War (David Bernstein, Politico). After a Harsh Supreme Court Decision on Immigrant Rights, Advocates and Lawyers Have Two Key Questions (Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, Slate).

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Court-MartialTrialPractice

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

In this earlier blo g, I commented on the pending litigation over unanimous verdicts at courts-martial. As military defense lawyers we continue to support the advice given that the issue should be raised in all courts going forward. The update is that the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces has decided United States v.

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Mondaq

JULY 23, 2021

This Supreme Court decision considered the level of detail required for a valid payment schedule under the BIF Act.

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JURIST

JUNE 13, 2022

” Trump lawyer Matt Morgan relayed that law firms began to “disengage” from the Trump campaign amid allegations of voter fraud as they did not feel comfortable advancing those arguments. He also testified that the Trump campaign’s approach to the election results was not “honest and professional.”

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2022

Indeed, last week my study on the decline of free speech was published with other example of this rising orthodoxy among faculty members (“ Harm and Hegemony: The Decline of Free Speech in the United States ”). It is not enough for Professor Feldman to passionately disagree with the constitutional interpretation of the Court or other faculty.

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JURIST

APRIL 24, 2021

Jeffrey Fisher, Mr. Gary’s lawyer, argued that his client’s autonomy was violated when the government neglected to tell him an entire element of the case they would have to prove when Gary entered into the plea agreement. Decisions in both cases should come this summer.

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Mondaq

APRIL 11, 2022

Supreme Court decision limiting the Federal Trade Commission's ability to obtain financial relief, the FTC has been forced to look for new ways to give teeth to its. After last year's U.S.

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 31, 2024

Supreme Court will review a Colorado Supreme Court decision disqualifying Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s 2024 ballot on grounds he violated section 3 of the federal Constitution’s 14th amendment by engaging in insurrection. There have been many amicus curiae briefs submitted in Trump v.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 10, 2021

An Ontario judge has laid down the law on technology competence, ruling in no uncertain terms that every lawyer has a duty to keep pace with changing technology, and that a lawyer’s discomfort with new technologies — in this case, video depositions — is no excuse for reverting to pre-pandemic methods. Related: U.S. Judge Myers.

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JURIST

JULY 17, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit rejected Thursday a challenge to the mandatory membership requirements imposed by the State Bar of Michigan. Lucille Taylor, a lawyer from Michigan, challenged the state bar membership mandate on the grounds that it violates her freedom of association.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Arizona officials argue the prisoners should not be allowed to put forward evidence in federal court, because they failed to do so in state court at an earlier stage in their legal proceedings. Meanwhile, USA Today reports that a landmark Supreme Court decision last year in McGirt v.

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NewmanFerraraLLP

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In mid-November, the Appellate Division, First Department, ordered the disbarment of two lawyers who were arrested during protests over George Floyd’s death. ” According to a federal court decision, “the crime was violent, reckless, and lawless.” ” (Link to Second Circuit appeal, below.)

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LawSites

MARCH 18, 2024

Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain and l were sitting down with Daniel Lewis and Nik Reed , the founders of a legal research startup named Ravel Law, along with lawyers from Harvard’s Office of General Counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton and Gundersen Dettmer. About the Author Adam Ziegler is a lawyer and software builder.

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Diane Drain

JANUARY 22, 2023

Arizona Bankruptcy Lawyer. – Diane L. Drain, P.A.,

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Intelligize Blog

AUGUST 31, 2023

Though some PredictIt users have become adept at this form of political wagering, few probably would have bought shares in the likelihood that PredictIt itself would become the subject of a potential landmark court decision. On those grounds, the judges ruled that the decision failed the so-called arbitrary-and-capricious standard.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2024

Medrano had initially invoked his right to silence and asked for a lawyer, but the police officers investigating the robbery urged his wife to persuade him to talk to them, telling her that if he spoke with them he could return home to her and their baby. A Florida state court upheld Cunningham’s conviction.

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JURIST

JULY 4, 2023

Chief Justice John Roberts’ wife works as a legal recruiter, placing lawyers at firms with business before the Supreme Court. Justice Neil Gorsuch sold a massive property shortly following his appointment – he disclosed the sale, but did not disclose that he sold it to a CEO of a top firm that often argues before the court.

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Court-MartialTrialPractice

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

A person being tried at court-martial may have their case dismissed before the members (jury) reach any findings. Your military defense lawyer should know what to do if the same charges are re-referred to a court-martial–the prosecution taking a second attempt to convict you. In a recent case, we had that happen.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In a four-page opinion joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh, the court on Tuesday granted Laufer’s request. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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JURIST

JUNE 14, 2022

The Supreme Court Police Parity Act of 2022 passed in a 396-27 vote and will now go to President Joe Biden’s desk for final approval. The bill was introduced and passed with unanimous consent in the US Senate shortly after a draft of a Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade leaked.

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LawSites

APRIL 19, 2022

I built a document automation app online to help people fight their tickets for free using a recent court decision that had come down in Manhattan. There were two other court decisions from just outside of the city that were persuasive as well. Here’s the real punchline: I don’t practice traffic ticket law. Read it here.

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At the Lectern

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The initiative — the Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability Act — states that earlier, similar measures “have been weakened and hamstrung by the Legislature, government lawyers, and the courts, making it necessary to pass yet another initiative to close loopholes and reverse hostile court decisions.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 10, 2023

Share In Re Grand Jury asks how courts should assess attorney-client privilege when a client seeks partly legal and partly nonlegal advice from a lawyer and the two parts cannot be disentangled. But then the form is shown to a lawyer who identifies three items that are “kind of iffy” and bills $200,000.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The book combines art and academic analysis into a refreshing and creative take on major Supreme Court cases — with an added dash of “Florida weirdness” to keep things interesting. Artist and lawyer Xavier Cortada has created 10 striking paintings, each depicting a significant Supreme Court case originating in Florida.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2023

Both a federal district court in Missouri and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit rejected Chapman’s claim that she was immune from suit. Doe’s lawyers urged the justices to deny the petition. Doe instead opted to go to Illinois, where she obtained a judicial bypass and, later, an abortion.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Supreme Court decision allowing Texas’s ban on most abortion services to remain in place. But if states can now shield their laws from review by the federal courts that compare assault weapons to Swiss Army knives, then California will use that authority to protect people’s lives, where Texas used it to put women in harm’s way.”.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 10, 2021

An Ontario judge has laid down the law on technology competence, ruling in no uncertain terms that every lawyer has a duty to keep pace with changing technology, and that a lawyer’s discomfort with new technologies — in this case, video depositions — is no excuse for reverting to pre-pandemic methods. Related: U.S. Judge Myers.

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