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The city of Detroit asked a Michigan federal judge to impose sanctions on and refer for disbarment Sidney Powell, L. Lin Wood and other attorneys involved in challenging the Wolverine State's 2020 general election results.
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A judge won't remove herself from a case against the Duchess of Sussex brought by her half sister, ruling that the duchess's alleged relationship with the Obamas and the fact that the judge was appointed by Barack Obama don't amount to grounds for recusal.
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President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that imposes stricter stock disclosure requirements on federal judges, including the creation of a searchable online database of judicial financial disclosure forms.
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Parts of an article published by a U.K. tabloid were defamatory because they gave the impression that Prince Harry deliberately misled the public about his legal battle with the government over the downgrading of his security, a London court ruled.
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Veteran election-law attorney Marc Elias launched a law firm after a decadeslong career cementing his status as a go-to lawyer for Democrats. His litigation team is tackling more than 25 disputes around voting and redistricting ahead of the 2022 midterms.
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Social media posts by Donald Trump have led to an ongoing deluge of death threats and antisemitic slurs against a law clerk and the New York judge overseeing the ex-president's civil fraud trial, a court security official said.
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Prince Harry's lawyers kicked off his fight against MGN Ltd. in a London court Monday, saying he was hacked on multiple occasions to drive sales of the U.K. publisher's tabloid newspapers.
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BREAKING: A Manhattan federal judge indicated Monday he will throw out Sarah Palin's libel lawsuit against The New York Times over a 2017 opinion piece, saying that no reasonable juror could return a verdict in her favor.
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A D.C. federal judge blocked a U.S. State Department policy that gave diversity visas lower priority, directing the government to "undertake good-faith efforts" to process the 2021 visa lottery cohort before a Sept. 30 deadline.
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BREAKING: Major League Baseball and its franchises illegally conspired to scrap 40 minor league clubs, according to a lawsuit Monday that aims to end the baseball antitrust exemption granted by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1922.
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As Microsoft hashes out video game licenses to appease regulators scrutinizing its plan to buy Activision Blizzard for nearly $70 billion, industry sources believe its strategy to show it doesn't have monopolistic intentions could seal the mega-deal.
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The Sixth Circuit denied a rehearing request from Sidney Powell, L. Lin Wood and other lawyers for Donald Trump who were hit with $150,000 in fees after a judge found their lawsuit challenging the results of the 2020 presidential election to be frivolous.
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The U.S. Senate confirmed Rachael Rollins as the next U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, ending a bruising battle over her nomination in a 51-50 vote.
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will be called as a witness for the government in the trial of Colony Capital founder Thomas Barrack, in a case accusing the onetime Trump confidant of secretly acting as an agent of a foreign government.
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An attorney with the Legal Aid Society of Suffolk County recently found internet fame on TikTok, where he talks about his life, hosts online fundraisers and discourages his more than 720,000 followers from stealing ducks from public parks.
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President Joe Biden called on the Federal Trade Commission to "immediately" investigate spiking consumer gasoline prices and directed it to examine whether the increases are being driven by "anti-competitive or otherwise potentially illegal conduct."
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A federal judge is apparently leaning toward ordering the U.S. Department of State yet again to set aside thousands of visas for green card lottery winners whom the federal government hasn't processed or interviewed by the time the visas are set to expire.
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A Manhattan federal judge said Thursday that she is ready to vet as many as 600 people in search of a panel of 18 jurors to hear sex trafficking charges against former Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
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BREAKING: A jury convicted former Merrill Lynch traders on charges that they fraudulently manipulated the precious metals market with false orders that faked the impression of supply and demand so they could execute genuine orders at more favorable prices.
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Trump Organization controller Jeffrey McConney testified an accountant warned the company that how it paid bonuses to executives could result in the chief legal officer losing his law license, prompting the lawyer to immediately change how he was paid.
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The New York City Bar Association has asked Congress to promptly pass a bill to deal with a lack of public trust in the nation's highest court if the Supreme Court won't police itself.
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The DHS and three specialty medical boards were hit with allegations of working together to censor doctors who disapproved of COVID-19 vaccines and mandates, abortion and contraception by labeling their speech as false information.
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The American Bar Association's policymaking body pushed the U.S. Supreme Court to adopt an ethics code for its justices, a proposal that comes in the wake of ethics questions surrounding Justice Clarence Thomas and comments made by his wife.
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aren Delaney and Jennifer Judge are the legal industry equivalent of true-crime junkies — but it's not serial killers they're interested in. Instead, the podcast the two started last year focuses on the kinds of messes that only lawyers can make.
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Mike Davis, a founder of the Article III Project and a former aide to Sen. Chuck Grassley known for his inflammatory social media presence, announced that he's launching a firm focused on what he called "offensive and defensive lawfare" against Democrats.
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A Manhattan federal judge dug into former Donald Trump counsel Michael Cohen's damages suit over his 16-day reincarceration that was ruled to have come in retaliation for his plan to publish a book critical of the former president.
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Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons breached national privacy laws by tracking the movements of customers who downloaded its app "every few minutes of every day," including when they visited competitor coffee shops, Canadian regulators have found.
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BREAKING: President Joe Biden unveiled 9 new federal judicial nominees, including his first nominee for the Federal Circuit and district judge picks for California, Maryland, New Jersey and Nevada.
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The Senate has confirmed nine of President Joe Biden's district court nominees, in a sweeping end-of-the-year push to clear as many judicial picks as possible before breaking for the holidays.
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Second Circuit Judge Susan L. Carney is taking senior status, opening another vacancy on the court for U.S. President Joe Biden to fill.
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Reports that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' wife pressed the White House to overturn the 2020 election are shining a new spotlight on the lack of formal ethics rules at the nation's highest court.
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Prince Harry and others urged a London court to allow them to add allegations on the use of private investigators to their claim against a tabloid publisher, saying leaders at the company including Rupert Murdoch were involved in an alleged cover-up.
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BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Labor proposed scrapping a controversial Trump administration rule that gave faith-based government contractors wide latitude to sidestep anti-discrimination laws.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is probing Elon Musk's tardy disclosure regarding his acquisition of Twitter Inc. shares that had set the stage for his eventual proposal to buy the company.
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A Colorado judge has frozen the assets of a Denver-area church accused of targeting the local Christian community for a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James asked an Empire State court to force real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield to comply with subpoenas issued in connection with her office's investigation into former President Donald Trump's business dealings.
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The Ninth Circuit has revived a proposed class action accusing Google LLC and YouTube of illegally tracking children's online behavior without their consent.
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BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative justices expressed doubt that race should continue to be a factor in college admissions, hinting that they may overturn a decades-old precedent and steer schools towards "race-neutral" alternatives.
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A New York federal judge on Tuesday said she anticipates the January trial of former Goldman Sachs executive Roger Ng over the alleged multibillion-dollar 1MDB fraud will proceed as planned.
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A London court granted a Californian nonprofit organization permission to add allegations of forgery, fraud and document-tampering to its existing case, which claims that computer scientist Craig Wright is not the creator of bitcoin.
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The British government ordered that the assets of seven of Russia's wealthiest oligarchs should be frozen, including Roman Abramovich's Chelsea Football Club, as Britain steps up moves to sanction individuals close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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From cameras in the courtroom to explanatory law review articles to posts on social media, Judge Stephen Dillard uses every tool at his disposal to improve transparency at the Georgia Court of Appeals.
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BREAKING: A grassroots independent labor union won an election at a Staten Island Amazon facility, notching a landmark victory for organized labor as it tries to gain a foothold at the e-commerce giant.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission dropped the remaining claims against Ripple Labs executives Bradley Garlinghouse and Christian Larsen in its enforcement case over the sale of the blockchain firm's XRP token.
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The U.S. Department of Justice is reopening its Office for Access to Justice.
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Attorneys should be free to "reply all" without fear, according to an ABA committee opinion, explaining that when an attorney copies a client on an email to opposing counsel, it creates implied consent for opposing counsel to include the client on a reply.
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The New Jersey Supreme Court has signaled its agreement with a judicial conduct committee that a jurist who was criminally convicted in a dispute with her daughters' school should be removed from the bench.
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Elad Roisman, one of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's two Republican commissioners, announced Monday that he will step down by the end of January 2022.
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A New York federal judge ruled that a Second Circuit decision allows the trustee overseeing the liquidation of Bernie Madoff's investment fund to renew his attempt to claw back $265 million from financial institutions that benefited from the Ponzi scheme.
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Northwestern University's law school favors hiring women and minority faculty candidates with "mediocre and undistinguished records" over better-credentialed white men, a conservative group claims in a lawsuit.
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The Eleventh Circuit blocked local bans on "conversion therapy" implemented by Boca Raton and Palm Beach County, ruling that the ordinances violate the First Amendment by impermissibly curbing therapists' speech.
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A self-described straight white male, first-year law student at NYU is claiming the prestigious NYU Law Review — which he plans to apply for — gives "preferential treatment to women, non-Asian racial minorities, homosexuals and transgender people."
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BREAKING: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a new state enforcer suit Wednesday accusing Google of anticompetitive conduct manipulating the advertising market.
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The Duchess of Sussex won her final copyright claim against a British tabloid that published a letter she penned to her father, months after prevailing in her privacy claim in the case.
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Accused hacker group leader Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov, known online as "Tank," pled guilty in Nebraska federal court to charges stemming from two malware schemes Thursday.
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A whistleblower receiving a more than $40 million cut of the $233.7 million settlement between the DOJ and Mallinckrodt had flagged his concerns internally, but resigned after lacking confidence the company would pay back Medicaid rebate underpayments.
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A New York state judge ordered Morgan Lewis to hand over documents to the state attorney general's office related to a probe into whether former President Donald Trump's businesses inflated asset values.
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Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, suggested Tuesday that his agency might seek to remove medical debt from inclusion on consumer credit reports.
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Italy's antitrust authority has fined technology giant Amazon €1.13 billion for allegedly abusing its market dominance.
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A former Theranos senior project manager testified that he helped set up demonstrations using the startup's blood-testing devices, which were, on at least one occasion, programmed to shield protocol failures.
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A Ninth Circuit panel sided with Project Veritas and found Oregon's statute making it a felony to secretly record people in public places violates the 1st Amendment, while a judge slammed the opinion for opening the door for "ongoing invasions of privacy."
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Online stock trading platform Robinhood was sued in at least seven federal courts within hours of its decision to block users from buying shares of GameStop and other volatile stocks recently caught up in a trading frenzy.
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BREAKING: Federal authorities have jailed the former chief financial officer of Girardi Keese on one or more charges of wire fraud.
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G-7 financial leaders called for "consistent and comprehensive" regulations for digital-asset companies that will hold the cryptocurrency industry to the same standards as traditional finance.
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A Manhattan federal judge agreed to delay the trial for three men accused of joining pardoned politico Steve Bannon in siphoning funds from an effort to wall off the U.S. from Mexico.
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Federal prosecutors are fighting to preserve criminal charges accusing poultry executives of price-fixing in the broiler chicken industry.
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The D.C. federal judge overseeing the case involving a former Perkins Coie LLP lawyer accused of lying to the FBI said Wednesday he and the attorney were "professional acquaintances," and he'd entertain a motion to recuse if desired.
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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority hit two Wells Fargo units with a $2.25 million fine on claims that they failed to store customer information in the "WORM" format required under federal anti-money laundering regulations.
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Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said he does not think other constitutional rights, including same-sex marriage and contraception, are at risk following the high court's ruling striking down a constitutional right to abortion.
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LendUp Loans has agreed to shutter its lending program to settle a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau lawsuit alleging deceptive marketing practices.
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Teva Pharmaceuticals is scrambling to stop jurors from viewing internal videos that transformed famous film scenes into parodies of narcotic painkiller marketing, warning that the clips are so provocative they could destroy the drugmaker's defense.
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Billionaire brothers Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta must testify in a sprawling unfair labor practice suit against Station Casinos, the National Labor Relations Board ruled.
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A federal magistrate judge has put on hold a civil suit over the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, an African American man shot by three white men while jogging in a Georgia suburb, to let criminal proceedings play out.
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Matt Olsen's confirmation as chief of the U.S. Department of Justice's National Security Division fills a key post in the government's escalating battle against cybercrime as criminal outfits and hostile foreign powers carry out sophisticated attacks.
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BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected a lawsuit filed by Texas seeking to overturn the election results in key states won by President-elect Joe Biden.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's director told senators Thursday that Silicon Valley technology giants are turning the U.S. "into a bit of a surveillance state."
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The chief financial officer of controversial attorney John Pierce's new civil rights organization, the National Constitutional Law Union was indicted last year for allegedly falsifying court documents.
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A New York federal judge granted preliminary approval to the final deal ending claims that banks illegally fixed prices on the gold market, signing off on a $50 million settlement.
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The Biden administration took a step toward tougher antitrust enforcement in the job market as the U.S. Departments of Justice and Labor formally agreed to work together more closely.
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An attorney group claims Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the 18 attorneys general who joined his failed original action requesting that the U.S. Supreme Court overturn the 2020 presidential election results in four swing states should be disciplined.
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The Biden administration on Thursday proposed a rule that would require major federal contractors to publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related financial risks.
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Amazon's Ring unit has turned over recordings to law enforcement without a warrant or users' permission nearly a dozen times so far this year, the company disclosed in response to privacy and government surveillance concerns raised by a Democratic senator.
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A London court refused Wednesday to revisit a decision handing computer scientist Craig Wright intellectual property rights to the "bitcoin bible."
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The U.S. Treasury Department is aiming to release final foreign tax credit regulations by the end of the year, including guidance that covers how taxes must be connected to foreign jurisdictions to be creditable.
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Attorneys for deceased programmer Dave Kleiman hammered self-professed bitcoin inventor Craig Wright with documents in which he described Kleiman as his business partner despite his claims in multibillion-dollar litigation that the two were just friends.
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An Alabama steel mill and its Littler Mendelson PC defense team committed "calculated sabotage" on a wage-and-hour suit with repeated lies and an attempt to push blame for their own discovery stonewalling onto a third party, a federal judge has ruled.
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BREAKING: A Texas bankruptcy judge granted an order seeking the dismissal of the Chapter 11 case of the NRA Tuesday afternoon, agreeing with the Office of the New York Attorney General and others that the case filed in bad faith.
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University of California, Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky defended actions he and his wife, Berkeley law professor Catherine Fisk, took to try to stop a Muslim law student's protest at their home after a video of the incident went viral.
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Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo can continue his effort to force Cleary Gottlieb and Vladeck Raskin to turn over information about the women whose sexual misconduct accusations forced him to resign, a New York federal judge said.
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BREAKING: NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb declined Wednesday to step down as the labor board's top prosecutor shortly after President Joe Biden requested his resignation.
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Perkins Coie partner and cybersecurity expert Michael A. Sussmann was hit Thursday with a federal charge of lying to the FBI.
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Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey will appeal a state court's decision to dismiss what her office has called the nation's first criminal case against nursing home operators related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson showed none of the usual shyness for a first-time justice, diving straight into oral arguments with a series of tough questions for attorneys across two cases.
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Two women lawyers have told Law360 that former Federal Trade Commission member and George Mason University law professor Joshua D. Wright abused his power in order to engage them in sexual contact.
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Former President Donald Trump can't pause a lawsuit blaming his "campaign of lies and incendiary rhetoric" for the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who suffered two strokes following the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
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The decision that torpedoed Purdue Pharma's Chapter 11 plan represents a seismic shift nearly certain to land in the U.S. Supreme Court and test a controversial tool that has long drawn fire for far exceeding its original intent.
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BREAKING: President Joe Biden announced four new judicial nominees including a Second Circuit pick who would be first LGBT woman to ever serve on a federal appellate court.
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A New Jersey federal judge is refusing to transfer back to Texas a suit against the Garden State's attorney general over enforcement of a federal law blocking the publication of 3D gun printing plans.
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Now that President Joe Biden has nominated Delaware federal Judge Leonard P. Stark to fill a pending vacancy on the Federal Circuit, Law360 Pulse takes a look at some of the jurist's biggest rulings.
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The American Association of University Professors has chosen a professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law to serve as its general counsel.
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