Two brothers sentenced to 60 years to life in prison for murdering their parents as juveniles should be resentenced, the Pennsylvania Superior Court said, finding that the judge determining punishment for the 1995 crimes should have recused himself because he prosecuted their co-defendant.
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Killer Pa. Brothers Win Resentencing Due To Judge's Role

By Elizabeth Daley

Two brothers sentenced to 60 years to life in prison for murdering their parents as juveniles should be resentenced, the Pennsylvania Superior Court said, finding that the judge determining punishment for the 1995 crimes should have recused himself because he prosecuted their co-defendant.

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Viamedia Seeks Late Addition To Ad Market Witness List

By Cara Salvatore

Viamedia Inc. asked an Illinois federal judge to allow a post-discovery witness addition to an upcoming trial against Comcast over competition in the cable ad sales market, saying it discovered the man's relevant knowledge after he joined Viamedia's board.

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Clarified Arbitration Award Clears UPS In Back Pay Dispute

By Matthew Santoni

UPS did not violate an arbitration award when it subtracted a temporarily fired worker's unemployment benefits from her back pay, since the arbitration panel later clarified that was what its award intended, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Monday.

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Fastener Co. Wants To Undo Jury Verdict, TM Injunction

By P.J. D'Annunzio

Industrial fastener company Peninsula Components has asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to upend a jury verdict holding it liable for trademark infringement for using the PEM name in Google Ads, arguing that Penn Engineering & Manufacturing Corp., the competitor suing it, did not own the trademark.

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Oil Businessmen Look To Arbitrate $650M Ecuador Dispute

By Caroline Simson

A father and son targeted by Ecuador's state-owned oil shipping company in a $650 million lawsuit over events at the heart of a corruption and impeachment scandal involving former Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso told a Pennsylvania federal court that the dispute belongs in arbitration.

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Collaborative Approach Helps Chartwell Grow To 300 Attys

By James Boyle

With the addition of a handful of lateral hires at the start of the new year, Chartwell Law Offices LLP has crossed the 300-attorney mark and evolved from what started 24 years ago as a four-person insurance law boutique operating in the Philadelphia suburbs into a 39-office firm.

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LITIGATION

Justices Won't Hear If Atty Needs Client's OK To Admit Crime

By George Woolston

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a New Jersey man's conviction for unlawfully possessing a firearm as a felon, a case that asked if a lawyer could admit part of a crime on a client's behalf when the client himself objected.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

What's On Deck In Tribal Nations' Prediction Markets Litigation

Native American tribes' response to the expansion of sports-based prediction markets enters a decisive phase this year, with appellate courts positioned to address whether federal commodities law permits nationwide offering of sports-based event contracts free from state and tribal gaming regulation, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

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Judges On AI: How Courts Can Boost Access To Justice

Arizona Court of Appeals Judge Samuel A. Thumma writes that generative artificial intelligence tools offer a profound opportunity to enhance access to justice and engender public confidence in courts’ use of technology, and judges can seize this opportunity in five key ways.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

No Jury Yet In Goldstein Trial, But Celeb Witnesses Possible

By Jared Foretek

Day two of jury selection in Tom Goldstein's tax and mortgage fraud case wrapped without a jury being seated Tuesday, but did reveal that the government could call celebrities Tobey Maguire and Kevin Hart to the stand.

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Ex-Duane Morris Tax Partner Charged With Murdering Wife

By Hailey Konnath

A former tax partner at Duane Morris LLP's Chicago office has been charged with killing his wife a little more than a year ago, according to an announcement made Tuesday by Illinois prosecutors.

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Beasley Allen Talc Work Sends 'Bad Signal,' J&J Says

By George Woolston

Johnson & Johnson's talc unit told a New Jersey appeals panel on Tuesday that a lower court's ruling permitting Beasley Allen Law Firm attorneys to represent plaintiffs in multicounty litigation over its talc-based baby powder "sends a very bad signal" to the state bar.

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Ex-Atty, Others Charged In Staged New Orleans Crash Scheme

By Hope Patti

A disbarred attorney was hit with new charges claiming that he induced a witness to commit perjury and obstructed justice in the federal investigation of an insurance scam involving staged car crashes in the New Orleans area.

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Halligan Blasts Court's 'Inquisition' Over US Atty Status

By Ryan Boysen

Lindsey Halligan said Tuesday that she is still the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia despite a recent ruling to the contrary, dismissing a federal judge's questions about why she's still using the title as an "inquisition" and a "gross abuse of power."

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Approach The Bench: Judge Bough On Ethics

Years of experience as a plaintiff's attorney influenced U.S. District Judge Stephen Bough's disclosure rules for litigators appearing in his court.

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DLA Piper Can't Counsel Hudson Hotel In Ch. 11, Judge Says

By Alex Wittenberg

A Delaware bankruptcy judge Tuesday rejected a bid by two bankrupt entities tied to the former Hudson Hotel to retain DLA Piper LLP as special counsel in their Chapter 11 case, saying the law firm's work for the entities' lender presented a conflict of interest.

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Sen. Whitehouse Presses AG On Boasberg Complaint Results

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., ranking member of the courts panel on the Senate Judiciary Committee, is calling for Attorney General Pam Bondi to release the results of the disciplinary complaint she filed against Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of the District of Columbia when the investigation wraps up.

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Jack Smith To Testify Publicly Next Week

By Courtney Bublé

Former special counsel Jack Smith is slated to testify publicly before the House Judiciary Committee on Jan. 22 after, according to his attorney, having been "ready and willing" to do so for a while.

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4th Circ. Combines DOJ Appeals Of Comey, James Dismissals

By Jack Karp

The Fourth Circuit has granted the Trump administration's request to combine its previously separate appeals of the dismissals of prosecutions against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

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