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142 entries in 'Lawyer News' |
2024/03/18
A Supreme Court ruling in a social media case could set standards
2024/01/05
Trump asks US Supreme Court to overturn Colorado ruling
2023/12/13
Trump decides against testifying for second time in NY civil fraud trial
2023/06/15
Federal court sides with lobster fishers in whale protection case
2023/06/09
Assange loses latest bid to stop extradition to the U.S. on spying charges
2023/03/15
Court: Ukraine can try to avoid repaying $3B loan to Russia
2023/01/18
Protasiewicz leads in money race for Wisconsin Supreme Court
2022/03/14
Courts, BMV act after license retained after fatal crash
2022/01/03
Judges send Tyson workers’ virus lawsuit back to state court
2021/08/18
#1 Law Firm Web Design Company in Los Angeles
2021/05/05
Lawsuit seeks Confederate statue’s removal from courthouse
2021/04/23
COVID-19 concerns raised at St. Louis death penalty trial
2020/10/03
Supreme Court to review Arizona ‘ballot harvesting’ law
2020/06/08
Alaska Supreme Court justices call for system improvements
2020/05/01
Blind justice: No visual cues in high court phone cases
2020/04/29
Court tosses NY case that could have expanded gun rights
2020/03/19
Fight over jaguar habitat in Southwest heads back to court
2019/01/20
Lawyer: Incapacitated woman who gave birth not in coma
2018/12/07
Supreme Court to hear closely watched double jeopardy case
2018/11/24
Government asks high court to hear transgender military case
2018/10/27
Bomb suspect set for Florida court appearance
2018/10/10
Kavanaugh to hear his 1st arguments as Supreme Court justice
2018/09/17
Guatemala court orders UN anti-graft chief be readmitted
2018/09/15
Juvenile waived to adult court in Indy doctor's slaying
2018/08/21
German court rules in broadcaster Nazi camp spat with Poland
2018/08/20
Man admits slaying wife, blames her for daughters' deaths
2018/08/08
The Latest: Zimbabwe's president welcomes court challenge
2018/07/14
Demonstrators force Fox crew from Supreme Court broadcast
2018/07/01
McConnell touts Thapar for Supreme Court seat
2018/06/30
European Union moves against Poland for its new court law
2018/04/17
Supreme Court rejects anti-abortion pastor's appeal on noise
2018/04/11
Singer Cliff Richard's case against BBC begins in High Court
2018/03/26
Courts weighing numerous challenges to political boundaries
2018/03/22
Arizona court to hear arguments on immigrant tuition case
2018/03/05
Cambodian court denies opposition leader release on bail
2017/11/13
Samsung worker killed by brain tumor wins compensation case
2017/10/27
Burundi becomes 1st to leave International Criminal Court
2017/10/22
Court, for now, blocks immigrant teen's access to abortion
2017/10/01
Elliott's fast start fades with Cowboys as court looms again
2017/08/15
Mizzou's Howard arrested again for failing to appear in court
2017/07/18
Kansas faces skeptical state Supreme Court on school funding
2017/07/09
First Opioid Court in the U.S. Focuses on Keeping Users Alive
2017/06/03
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch: Rule of law 'a blessing'
2017/05/21
Former County Sheriff Joe Arpaio loses another round in court
2017/05/02
Connecticut court takes up doctor-patient confidentiality
2017/04/03
Donnelly facing doubts from Indiana liberals over court vote
2017/02/20
Appeals court won't re-hear the 'dusky gopher frog' case
2017/01/18
Court ponders mass murderer Breivik's prison conditions
2017/01/04
Circus operator agrees to plea deal in tent collapse
2016/12/03
Lawyers for Egypt's Islamists see high court as last refuge
2016/12/01
ICC prosecutor: African states leaving court is 'regression'
2016/11/17
Nevada high court considering email public records question
2016/10/15
Grassley: GOP can't stonewall a Clinton Supreme Court pick
2016/09/30
Suspected people smuggler charged in Australian court
2016/09/27
Court cites racial profiling in tossing gun charge
2016/07/03
Court rules against White House science office in email case
2016/06/14
Spain court orders Operation Puerto blood bags released
2016/06/06
British court gives 22 life sentences to pedophile
2016/04/23
Arkansas funeral home pleads guilty over stacked bodies
2016/04/23
Federal lawyer gets 30 days for forging document
2016/04/23
High court nominee praises lawyers for helping the poor
2016/04/13
Cosby asks court to reseal testimony about affairs, drugs
2016/04/12
Appeals court rules Mississippi can resume Google inquiry
2016/02/26
Mississippi court upholds Democratic primary ballot change
2016/02/06
Plagued by delays, California high-speed rail heads back to court
2016/01/20
Court upholds government's energy conservation program
2015/12/14
Finland court jails Iraqi twins suspected of IS killing
2015/12/12
High court takes up challenges to drunken-driving test
2015/08/14
Court fines Washington state over education funding
2015/07/14
Marijuana opponents using racketeering law to fight industry
2015/07/06
Michael Jackson’s doctor pleads not guilty
2015/06/06
Appeals court sides with tribes in fight over land decisions
2015/06/02
Appeals court: Apple must submit to imposition of monitor
2015/05/14
Appeals court skeptical of fairness of trader's conviction
2015/04/07
Supreme Court rejects North Carolina appeal on election law
2015/03/11
Missouri appeals judge appointed to take over Ferguson court
2015/01/19
Arizona sheriff could face civil contempt hearing in court
2015/01/12
High court won't hear challenge to Vermont campaign law
2015/01/08
Fate of thousands at stake in Massachusetts court arguments
2014/12/04
EX-UPS driver's pregnancy bias claim at high court
2014/11/13
Man accused of pushing wife off cliff is in court
2014/10/22
Massachusetts Real Estate Attorney
2014/08/18
Court: Silence can be used against suspects
2014/06/10
McKennon Law Group - Los Angeles ERISA Litigation Lawyer
2014/06/06
Levin & Curlett, LLC - Baltimore Criminal Defense Lawyer Services
2014/05/16
Fred Meissner - Phoenix, Arizona Tax Lawyer Services
2014/04/29
W. Bradley Ney - Washington, DC Business Litigation Lawyer
2014/04/25
Fred Meissner - Tax Lawyer in Phoenix, Arizona
2014/04/12
Salvatore Scanio Attorney – Ludwig & Robinson PLLC.
2014/03/28
Colo. court says lawyers can advise pot clients
2013/10/25
Josef Cowan | Civil Litigation Construction Law Firm Los Angeles
2013/06/08
San Antonio, Texas Probate Attorney - Aldrich Law Firm
2013/02/04
Lawyer fired in 9/11 case at Guantanamo
2013/02/01
Law firm: Phoenix lawyer dies from shooting wounds
2012/12/03
Firm settles with W.Va. AG over mortgage case
2012/09/27
Court grants appeals from 2 people without lawyers
2012/09/22
Court dismisses investor lawsuits against Porsche
2012/09/07
Lawyer: NM gov aide recorded on state email use
2012/07/27
Appeals court reinstates lawsuit against Glock
2012/02/08
Corvallis Criminal Defense Attorneys - Arnold Law Office, LLC
2012/02/01
Securities Litigation Attorney - Robert L. Herskovits
2012/01/22
Herskovits PLLC - New York Securities Litigation Law
2011/12/20
Gingrich assails judges as he courts conservatives
2011/09/23
9th Circuit appeals court Judge Pamela Rymer dies
2011/09/20
Noted NJ attorney Michael Cole dies at 67
2011/09/09
W.Va. lawyer nominated to federal appeals court
2011/09/05
Brockport man guilty of shooting deputy in leg
2011/08/04
NYC lawyer pleads guilty to tax charge
2011/07/28
Jeffco Commission chooses to hire California law firm
2011/06/02
Bauer leaving, Ruemmler in as White House counsel
2011/05/18
Holland Hart adds 29 attorneys in Salt Lake City
2011/05/05
Welcome Indiana Trial Lawyers Association Members
2011/02/11
Former Ga. Labor Commissioner Joins Law Firm
2011/01/31
At least 135 attorneys keep law license after convictions
2011/01/19
Attorney - Nathaniel D. Johnson
2011/01/18
Former Wisconsin governor takes job with law firm
2011/01/12
Former Attorney General Cox will join Dykema Gossett
2011/01/04
Artur Davis joins international law firm
2010/12/30
Daniels appoints new judges in 2 Indiana counties
2010/08/02
PAUL M. SMITH TO RECEIVE 2010 THURGOOD MARSHALL AWARD
2010/04/16
SHEPPARD MULLIN RE-ELECTS CHAIRMAN GUY HALGREN
2010/03/09
Arent Fox names Mark M. Katz new chairman
2010/02/25
Keith Halleland departs Halleland Lewis law firm
2010/01/28
Top Cravath litigator Joffe dead at 66
2009/10/19
Los Angeles DUI Defense
2009/07/27
Former Staff Attorney's Discrimination Suit Against Covington Back On Track
2009/01/13
Shuman Law Firm Investigates Advanced Med Optics
2008/12/02
Ages of Supreme Court justices and recent retirees
2008/09/26
Court Worker Says Judge Groped Her
2008/06/23
1st black La. Supreme Court justice dies at 84
2008/06/12
Trial Suspended Over Judge's Dirty Web Site
2008/04/07
Attorney: SC Firm, Railroad to Settle
2008/03/31
Former Latham Partner Pleads Guilty
2008/03/31
23 Districts Improperly Report Attorneys
2008/03/28
Herbies Promotes Record Number of Partners
2008/03/27
Diana Sen Selected as Regional Finalist
2008/03/26
Sidley Austin Expands with Addition of Six
2008/03/05
Former Judge Z. Mae Jimison dies
2008/03/04
Former Court justice Baldwin joins Pittsburgh law firm
2008/03/03
Logan lawyer appointed to 1st District Court
2008/03/01
FCC General Counsel Feder Leaves for Law Firm
2008/02/05
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A Supreme Court ruling in a social media case could set standards
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2024/03/18 17:13
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In a busy term that could set standards for free speech in the digital age, the Supreme Court on Monday is taking up a dispute between Republican-led states and the Biden administration over how far the federal government can go to combat controversial social media posts on topics including COVID-19 and election security.
The justices are hearing arguments in a lawsuit filed by Louisiana, Missouri and other parties accusing officials in the Democratic administration of leaning on the social media platforms to unconstitutionally squelch conservative points of view. Lower courts have sided with the states, but the Supreme Court blocked those rulings while it considers the issue.
The high court is in the midst of a term heavy with social media issues. On Friday, the court laid out standards for when public officials can block their social media followers. Less than a month ago, the court heard arguments over Republican-passed laws in Florida and Texas that prohibit large social media companies from taking down posts because of the views they express.
The cases over state laws and the one being argued Monday are variations on the same theme, complaints that the platforms are censoring conservative viewpoints. The states argue that White House communications staffers, the surgeon general, the FBI and the U.S. cybersecurity agency are among those who coerced changes in online content on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter) and other media platforms.
“It’s a very, very threatening thing when the federal government uses the power and authority of the government to block people from exercising their freedom of speech,” Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said in a video her office posted online.
The administration responds that none of the actions the states complain about come close to problematic coercion. The states “still have not identified any instance in which any government official sought to coerce a platform’s editorial decisions with a threat of adverse government action,” wrote Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer. Prelogar wrote that states also can’t “point to any evidence that the government ever imposed any sanction when the platforms declined to moderate content the government had flagged — as routinely occurred.”
The companies themselves are not involved in the case.
Free speech advocates say the court should use the case to draw an appropriate line between the government’s acceptable use of the bully pulpit and coercive threats to free speech.
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Trump asks US Supreme Court to overturn Colorado ruling
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2024/01/05 10:25
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Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling barring him from the Colorado ballot, setting up a high-stakes showdown over whether a constitutional provision prohibiting those who “engaged in insurrection” will end his political career.
Trump appealed a 4-3 ruling in December by the Colorado Supreme Court that marked the first time in history that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment was used to bar a presidential contender from the ballot. The court found that Trump’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol disqualified him under the clause.
The provision has been used so sparingly in American history that the U.S. Supreme Court has never ruled on it. Wednesday’s development came a day after Trump’s legal team filed an appeal against a ruling by Maine’s Democratic Secretary of State, Shenna Bellows, that Trump was ineligible to appear on that state’s ballot over his role in the Capitol attack. Both the Colorado Supreme Court and the Maine secretary of state’s rulings are on hold until the appeals play out.
Trump’s critics have filed dozens of lawsuits seeking to disqualify him in multiple states. He lost Colorado by 13 percentage points in 2020 and does not need to win the state to gain either the Republican presidential nomination or the presidency. But the Colorado ruling has the potential to prompt courts or secretaries of state to remove him from the ballot in other, must-win states.
None had succeeded until a slim majority of Colorado’s seven justices — all appointed by Democratic governors — ruled last month against Trump. Critics warned that it was an overreach and that the court could not simply declare that the Jan. 6 attack was an “insurrection” without a judicial process.
“The Colorado Supreme Court decision would unconstitutionally disenfranchise millions of voters in Colorado and likely be used as a template to disenfranchise tens of millions of voters nationwide,” Trump’s lawyers wrote in their appeal to the nation’s highest court, noting that Maine has already followed Colorado’s lead. |
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Trump decides against testifying for second time in NY civil fraud trial
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2023/12/13 09:43
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Donald Trump said Sunday he has decided against testifying for a second time at his New York civil fraud trial, posting on social media a day before his scheduled appearance that he “very successfully & conclusively” testified last month and saw no need to do so again.
The former president, the leading contender for the 2024 Republican nomination, had been expected to return to the witness stand Monday as a coda to his defense against New York Attorney General Letitia James ' lawsuit.
James, a Democrat, alleges Trump inflated his wealth on financial statements used in securing loans and making deals. The case threatens Trump’s real estate empire and cuts to the heart of his image as a successful businessman.
“I will not be testifying on Monday,” Trump wrote in an all-capital-letters, multipart statement on his Truth Social platform less than 20 hours before he was to take the witness stand.
“I have already testified to everything & have nothing more to say,” Trump added, leaving the final word among defense witnesses to an accounting expert hired by his legal team who testified last week that he found “no evidence, whatsoever, for any accounting fraud” in Trump’s financial statements.
A Trump spokesperson did not immediately respond to questions about his decision.
The decision was an abrupt change from Trump’s posture in recent days, when his lawyers said he was insistent on testifying again despite their concerns about a gag order that has cost him $15,000 in fines for disparaging the judge’s law clerk.
“President Trump has already testified. There is really nothing more to say to a judge who has imposed an unconstitutional gag order and thus far appears to have ignored President Trump’s testimony and that of everyone else involved in the complex financial transactions at issue in the case,” Trump lawyer Christopher Kise said Sunday.
Trump’s decision came days after his son, Eric Trump, ditched his return appearance on the witness stand. Trump said on social media that he’d told Eric to cancel. It also follows Trump’s first trip back to court since he testified in the case on Nov. 6. Last Thursday, he watched from the defense table as the accounting professor, New York University professor Eli Bartov, blasted the state’s case and said Trump’s financial statements “were not materially misstated.”
Trump’s cancellation caught court officials by surprise. Without Trump on the witness stand, the trial will be on hold until Tuesday, when Bartov will finish his testimony. State lawyers say they’ll then call at least one rebuttal witness. |
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Federal court sides with lobster fishers in whale protection case
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2023/06/15 12:51
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A federal appeals court has sided with commercial fishermen who say proposed restrictions aimed at saving a vanishing species of whale could put them out of business.
The fishermen harvest lobsters and crabs off New England and oppose tough new restrictions on the way they fish that are intended to protect the North Atlantic right whale. The whale numbers only about 340 in the world and it’s vulnerable to lethal entanglement in fishing gear.
The fishermen and the state of Maine appealed their case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit after losing in a lower court. The appeals court said Friday it disagreed with the lower court’s ruling.
The appeals court ruling could mean that the federal government must take another stab at crafting new rules to protect the whales. The restrictions would limit where lobster fishers can fish and what kind of gear they can use to try to prevent the whales from becoming entangled in fishing ropes.
The changes would represent a potential worst-case scenario for the lobster fishing industry, wrote Douglas H. Ginsburg, the senior judge of the appeals court, in Friday’s ruling.
“The result may be great physical and human capital destroyed, and thousands of jobs lost, with all the degradation that attends such dislocations,” Ginsburg wrote.
The fishers sued the National Marine Fisheries Service, an arm of the federal government. The service declined to comment on the lawsuit. |
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Assange loses latest bid to stop extradition to the U.S. on spying charges
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2023/06/09 15:50
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A British judge has rejected the latest attempt by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to fight extradition to the United States to face spying charges.
High Court justice Jonathan Swift said a new appeal would simply “re-run” arguments that Assange’s lawyers had already made and lost.
Assange has battled in British courts for years to avoid being sent to the U.S., where he faces 17 charges of espionage and one charge of computer misuse over WikiLeaks’ publication of classified diplomatic and military documents more than a decade ago.
In 2021, a British district judge ruled that Assange should not be extradited because he was likely to kill himself if held under harsh U.S. prison conditions. U.S. authorities later provided assurances that the Australia-born Assange wouldn’t face the severe treatment that his lawyers said would put his physical and mental health at risk.
Those assurances led Britain’s High Court and Supreme Court to overturn the lower court’s ruling, and the British government authorized extradition in June 2022.
Assange is seeking to halt extradition by obtaining a new court hearing on parts of his case that were dismissed by the first judge.
But in a ruling made public on Friday, Swift said all eight parts of Assange’s potential appeal were not “arguable” and should not be heard.
“The proposed appeal comes to no more than an attempt to re-run the extensive arguments made to and rejected by the district judge,” he said.
Assange’s wife, Stella Assange, said the WikiLeaks founder would make a new appeal attempt at a High Court hearing on Tuesday. He has almost exhausted his avenues of appeal in the U.K. but could still try to take his case to the European Court of Human Rights. |
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Court: Ukraine can try to avoid repaying $3B loan to Russia
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2023/03/15 14:16
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The U.K. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Ukraine can go to trial to try to avoid repaying $3 billion in loans it said it took under pressure from Russia in 2013 to prevent it from trying to join the European Union.
The court rejected an attempt to avoid a trial by a British company acting on Russia’s behalf to collect the loans. Ukraine said it borrowed the money while facing the threat of military force and massive illegal economic and political pressure nearly a decade before Russia invaded its neighbor.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tweeted that the ruling was “another decisive victory against the aggressor.”
“The Court has ruled that Ukraine’s defense based on Russia’s threats of aggression will have a full public trial,” he tweeted. “Justice will be ours.”
The case was argued in November 2021, and the court was not asked to consider Russia’s invasion of Ukraine three months later.
Ukrainian authorities allege that the corrupt government of pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych borrowed the money from Moscow under pressure before he was ousted in protests in February 2014, shortly before Russia illegally annexed Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula.
After the 2014 Ukraine revolution, the country’s new government refused to repay the debt in December 2015, saying Moscow wouldn’t agree to terms already accepted by other international creditors.
The case came to British courts because London-based Law Debenture Trust Corp. had been appointed by Ukraine to represent the interests of bondholders. The company initially won a judgment to avoid trial but Ukraine appealed.
The Supreme Court rejected several of Ukraine’s legal arguments, including that its finance minister didn’t have authority to enter into the loan agreement and that Ukraine could decline payment as a countermeasure to Russia’s aggressions.
The ruling, however, said a court could consider whether the deal was void because of threats or pressure that are illegitimate under English law.
While the court noted that trade sanctions, embargoes and other economic pressures are “normal aspects of statecraft,” economic pressures could provide context to prove that Russia’s threats to destroy Ukraine caused it to issue the bonds. |
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