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DOJ Atty And Magistrate Judge Secure Texas Court Seats
The Senate voted 88-7 on Friday to confirm Ernest Gonzalez, a senior attorney adviser in the U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division, Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Section, and then 90-8 to confirm U.S. Magistrate Judge Leon Schydlower both to the Western District of Texas.
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Schumer Urges Texas District To Adopt Judge-Shopping Rule
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday urged the chief judge of the Northern District of Texas to quickly implement the Judicial Conference of the United States' updated policy that looks to prevent litigants from judge shopping, arguing that the district's current practices are "dangerous."
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Trump Misquotes Justices In Immunity Case's Opening Brief
Former President Donald Trump invoked the writings of three sitting U.S. Supreme Court justices in a brief Tuesday to argue that former presidents are absolutely immune from criminal prosecution. Yet the cited opinions and papers actually express the opposite theories from what he claims — a miscue attorneys say could backfire on him.
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$114M Discord Stock Case Tossed Ahead Of Jury Trial
A Texas federal judge has dismissed a 21-count indictment against seven men accused of operating a multimillion-dollar "pump-and-dump" stock scheme over social media platform Discord two weeks before they were set to be tried before a jury, writing that the government's case was unable to survive two recent appellate court decisions that reined in corruption prosecutions.
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8th Circ. Backs Attys' Win In COVID Hotel Eviction Challenge
Two government attorneys did not violate the U.S. Constitution when they gave the green light to a Minnesota police department to forcibly remove a resident from a Super 8 motel in June 2020 amid a COVID-19 era eviction ban, the Eighth Circuit ruled in a precedential opinion Thursday, citing a "dearth of precedent."
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Unabomber Prosecutor To Probe FTX's Sullivan & Cromwell Ties
The Delaware bankruptcy court overseeing the Chapter 11 case of FTX Trading Ltd. has approved the appointment of a former federal prosecutor, whose experience includes work on the Unabomber case, to delve into accusations Sullivan & Cromwell is conflicted as debtor's counsel.
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Trump's Mystery Docket: Inside NY's Secretive Filing System
The first criminal indictment of a former American president may have arrived in 21st century New York, but it landed in a court system stuck in the past — where the official record is a disorganized and incomplete mass of paper with no accounting of what's inside.
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Fla. High Court Rejects Judge's Discipline Over Campaign Talk
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday rebuffed a stipulation between the state's Judicial Qualifications Commission and a county circuit judge agreeing to a 30-day suspension without pay over pro-law enforcement remarks he made during his campaign for office, saying the settlement was based on an incorrect reading of conduct rules.
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Biden's Judicial Nominees Face New Barriers
President Joe Biden is encountering new hurdles to placing his judicial nominees on the bench, particularly one who would be the first Muslim federal appellate judge if confirmed.
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Meet The Bar Vet And 'Good Listener' Picked For Mass. Bench
With a resume that ranges from a stint as a public defender to work on a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme suit, the Biden administration's latest pick for the Massachusetts federal bench has impressed former colleagues with his experience and sound temperament — even his mathematical chops.
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Sen. Menendez's Wife Keeps Attys After Feds Allege Conflict
Nadine Menendez, the wife of New Jersey's U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, told a Manhattan federal judge Thursday that she will stick with her Schertler Onorato Mead & Sears LLP lawyers ahead of their corruption trial after prosecutors alleged an ethical conflict.
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DA Rips Trump For 'Wild' Accusations Over Late Documents
The Manhattan district attorney is pushing back on claims of misconduct from former President Donald Trump's legal team as the two sides spar over the late production of thousands of pages of documents that have cast doubt on the timing of his hush-money trial.
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Hinshaw Brings On Former Fla. Judge From Shapiro Blasi
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP has added an experienced trial attorney and former Florida state judge to its business litigation practice in Fort Lauderdale from Shapiro Blasi Wasserman & Hermann PA.
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Lawmakers Eye Permanent Status For 10 Federal Judgeships
A bipartisan group of federal lawmakers has put forward bills in the Senate and House that would make 10 temporary district judgeships permanent in 10 states including Texas, Florida and California.
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Ex-OneCoin Attorney Says 1 Year In Prison Is Enough
A Bulgarian woman who held the title of legal and compliance executive at the fraudulent OneCoin cryptocurrency exchange asked a Manhattan federal judge to credit her for the year she'd spent in prison in harsh conditions and not sentence her to any more jail time.
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Trans Kids' Attys May Face Sanctions Over Ala. Judges' Probe
Eleven attorneys, including lawyers from Cooley LLP, Lightfoot Franklin & White LLC and prominent LGBTQ rights organizations, have been ordered to show why they should not be sanctioned after a judicial report concluded they engaged in judge-shopping when challenging an Alabama law banning certain medical procedures for transgender youth, according to a newly unsealed order.
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7th Circuit Nominee Fends Off Complaints About Case Backlog
U.S. District Judge Nancy Maldonado has one of the largest case backlogs among federal district judges, several Republican senators said Wednesday, insisting President Joe Biden made the wrong choice in nominating her to join the Seventh Circuit.
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Biden Taps Judicial Nominees For 6th Circuit, SDNY
President Joe Biden on Wednesday unveiled a new slate of judicial nominations, including a current U.S. attorney tapped for a Sixth Circuit seat and another federal prosecutor up for a judgeship in the Southern District of New York.
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DC Judicial Pick Faces GOP Scrutiny Over Jones Day Work
Republican lawmakers Wednesday criticized the BigLaw track record of a nominee for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
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Michael Cohen, Atty Avoid Sanctions For AI-Generated Cites
A New York federal judge on Wednesday declined to sanction Michael Cohen or his attorney for providing fictional cases generated by Google's artificial intelligence service to support a motion in Cohen's criminal case, finding that the citations were "embarrassing and certainly negligent" but not the product of bad faith.
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Study Sees Promise For Gen AI Tools In Closing Justice Gap
Widespread access to generative artificial intelligence tools could help increase access to justice for low-income Americans, according to a new study that found these tools largely boosted productivity for legal aid lawyers.
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Gas Buyers Want Judge Recused From Shale Cartel Suits
A would-be class of gasoline buyers pursuing antitrust claims against a string of shale oil producers told a Nevada federal judge on Tuesday that her admitted ownership of stock in Exxon Mobil Corp. required her to recuse herself from presiding over the litigation.
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Trump Gets Ga. Court's OK To Appeal Willis DQ Ruling
Donald Trump and his co-defendants in the Georgia election-interference case won permission Wednesday to immediately appeal a ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis to remain on the case despite concerns about her romantic relationship with a special prosecutor.
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Retired NJ Judge Talks Courts' Role In Preserving Democracy
Retired U.S. District Judge Noel Hillman, who is now leading Gibbons PC’s alternative dispute resolution group, joined Law360 Pulse for a conversation about his return to private practice and how the judiciary branch is largely responsible for maintaining “the greatest democracy in the world.”
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Colo. Judicial Discipline Asks Spiked In 2023, Watchdog Says
The Colorado commission in charge of policing judges has seen a jump in the number of requests to look into alleged bad behavior by judicial officials, according to the commission's annual report that included the revelation of a private censure and resignation of an unnamed judge who was paying bills for an "illegal sex worker" who was his romantic partner.