A man who pled guilty to two indictments urged the New Jersey Supreme Court to let him withdraw his global guilty plea Tuesday, saying that an appellate win in one of the cases has strengthened his negotiating position.
A man who pled guilty to two indictments urged the New Jersey Supreme Court to let him withdraw his global guilty plea Tuesday, saying that an appellate win in one of the cases has strengthened his negotiating position.
A New Jersey federal judge on Monday questioned whether Alina Habba is still running the New Jersey U.S. Attorney's Office during a heated hearing where the jurist tossed a supervisory prosecutor from his courtroom and ordered testimony from the trio of attorneys who assumed Habba's responsibilities.
A Ninth Circuit panel ruled a California federal judge properly enhanced a man's sentence for a second illegal reentry conviction based on a prior conviction for making false statements to officers who arrested him for entering the U.S. without authorization.
Arizona has laid criminal gambling charges against prediction market platform Kalshi, becoming the first state to do so among a slew of others pressuring the company to disallow users from betting on sporting events.
New York City's law department Tuesday moved to terminate its representation of former Mayor Eric Adams in a sexual assault suit filed by a former police department colleague, arguing Adams wasn't acting within the scope of his city employment at the time of the alleged incidents.
The burgeoning prediction market has exploded the definition of what qualifies as confidential corporate information that employees could misuse for personal gain, leaving companies scrambling to update internal policies and guidelines, compliance experts say.
A Fourth Circuit panel expressed skepticism Tuesday over the IRS' pursuit of a decades-old debt from a Maryland woman whose late husband's fraudulent activities triggered the liability, with one judge calling the government's interpretation of an eligible liability for spousal relief "really tricky."
A Jamaican sentenced to more than eight years in prison for leading a lottery scam in New York City that fleeced at least eight elderly people of hundreds of thousands of dollars cannot escape his judgment, the Third Circuit said, upholding a district court's decision.
Oklahoma and its governor have failed to show that Tulsa is incapable of adequately representing its interests as the city settles a jurisdictional lawsuit brought by the Muscogee (Creek) Nation over law enforcement, a federal judge has ruled as he closed the case.
The Texas Business Court has released its first opinion exploring when intellectual property can be used to create jurisdiction, and attorneys say the decision involving state trade secret law offers insight into when patent matters can be pursued there.
The Connecticut Supreme Court will not hear a challenge to the two-week suspension of Alex Jones' former lawyer, leaving intact an intermediate Appellate Court decision affirming the pared-down punishment surrounding his law firm's handling of Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre victims' personal information.
Two new bills introduced to the California Assembly this week seek to impose reforms on the state's legal industry, including adding mandatory disbarment for attorneys convicted of felony "capping" — or illegally paying for client recruitment — and blocking corporate litigation funders from influencing cases.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., on Wednesday released a draft of proposed legislation that would override a "patchwork" of state artificial intelligence regulations, touting the proposal as protecting "children, creators, conservatives and communities" and slamming the state regulations as hindering "AI innovation."
A Ukrainian billionaire who was recently ordered to pay other investors in a failed genetic testing company more than $1.8 million in damages is blaming the Pierce Atwood LLP lawyers who advised him on what a court later found to be a "fundamentally unfair" forced asset sale.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday that he will stay on as a board member of the central bank if he remains under U.S. Department of Justice investigation when his term as Fed chairman runs out this spring.
