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NC High Court Hopeful Says Ballot Count Defied State Law
A North Carolina judge is pressing forward with his legal battle to throw out more than 60,000 ballots in a race he lost by just 734 votes, arguing in a newly filed appellate brief that the state Elections Board has ignored voter registration laws for decades.
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Justices Limit 'Prevailing Party' Status For Atty Fees
Litigants will no longer be considered the "prevailing party" — and thus won't be eligible for attorney fees — if they achieve courtroom victories via preliminary injunction instead of a final judgment, the U.S. Supreme Court has found, in a ruling that's expected to be a blow to legal advocacy groups.
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Ex-NJ Judge Says Judiciary Still Retaliating In Pension Fight
A former New Jersey Superior Court judge has asked a state court to amend her suit challenging the denial of her disability pension application a second time, alleging that the state judiciary has further retaliated against her by requiring her to spend over $200,000 to qualify for a deferred early retirement pension.
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Federal Judiciary Repeats Request For More Judges
A federal circuit judge, speaking on behalf of the federal judiciary, repeated on Tuesday the need for more federal judges to alleviate the overwhelmed courts after President Joe Biden vetoed legislation late last year that would have added seats to the bench.
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Ga. Chief Justice Resigning After Over 20 Years On Bench
Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael P. Boggs — who has steered the state's courts in spending pandemic relief funds and approving changes to the state's bar exam — announced Tuesday that he's stepping down at the end of March to return to private practice.
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Family Of Wife Killed By Ex-BigLaw Atty Still Fighting For Funds
The cousins of the woman killed by her former BigLaw partner husband urged a Georgia state court to reject a bid to deprive them of the settlement proceeds from the underlying wrongful death suit, saying the court shouldn't rely on the ex-lawyer's assertions that she wanted the funds to go to her godson.
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Greenbaum Rowe Atty Among Trio Of New NJ State Judges
The New Jersey Senate on Tuesday confirmed three new state Superior Court judges, signing off on a Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis LLP family law partner, a Monmouth County family law attorney and a Sussex County assistant prosecutor.
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Former Texas US Atty Joins Winston & Strawn In Dallas
Winston & Strawn LLP announced Tuesday that former Eastern District of Texas U.S. Attorney Damien Diggs has joined the firm as a Dallas-based litigation partner, bringing unique experience to its government investigations, enforcement and compliance practice.
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Duane Morris Adds Former Federal Prosecutors In NY, Calif.
Duane Morris LLP has expanded its trial practice group with a pair of former federal prosecutors coming aboard in San Francisco and New York.
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4th Circ. Taps 6 Judges For 6-Month Stint In NC Western
Chief U.S. Circuit Judge Albert Diaz of the Fourth Circuit has issued orders to five district court judges and one of his fellow appellate judges to serve temporarily in the Western District of North Carolina from March through the end of August.
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High Court Orders New Trial In Okla. Death Row Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a new trial for an Oklahoma inmate whose conviction and death sentence for a 1997 murder, the state confesses, was the product of prosecutors withholding evidence and knowingly presenting false testimony.
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Ex-Judge Hopes To Avoid Testimony In Atty Romance Probe
Former Texas bankruptcy judge David R. Jones said Monday that he's been talking with the U.S. Trustee with the aim of avoiding "live trial testimony" in the probe of his undisclosed romantic relationship with a former Jackson Walker LLP partner, arguing that he's already given a deposition.
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Judge Who Ordered Pages Restored Put On Impeachment List
A Republican U.S. congressman announced Monday he has introduced articles of impeachment against a Washington, D.C., federal judge, following the judge's ruling ordering public health agencies temporarily to restore the web pages they took down in response to a Trump administration order to scrub pages of "gender ideology."
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Trump Media Co. Wants TRO Against Brazilian Justice
President Donald Trump's media company and online video sharing platform Rumble Inc. have asked a Florida federal court for a temporary restraining order blocking a Brazilian Supreme Federal Court justice's gag orders, arguing they illegally suppress political speech in the United States.
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Disbarred NJ Attys Seeking Reinstatement Begin Difficult Path
The first disbarred attorneys ever to seek reinstatement under New Jersey’s new rules are sitting for the bar exam this week, but the road back to licensure and rebuilding a successful practice remains challenging.
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DA Willis Says 'Makes No Sense' To DQ Her From Trump Case
Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis is arguing to the Georgia Supreme Court that her disqualification from prosecuting the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and others was unprecedented, asserting that her ousting over the appearance of impropriety creates a dangerous precedent.
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Even Idle Impeachment Threats Stir Fears Of Targeting Judges
Republican efforts to impeach federal judges who've blocked aspects of President Donald Trump's slash-and-burn cost-cutting policies are nearly certain to fail, experts say, but they do set a troubling precedent by painting a target on those judges' backs.
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Cravath Swaine Adds Ex-DOJ Criminal Division Leader In NY
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP announced Monday that it has hired the former acting assistant attorney general of the U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division to advise clients about civil and criminal matters.
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Former Top San Francisco Judge Joins Signature Resolution
Signature Resolution, the Southern California-based alternative dispute resolution service, is expanding its services in Northern California, announcing the opening of a San Francisco office and bringing in a former San Francisco Superior Court presiding judge as one of its neutrals.
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Thomas Pans High Court For Skipping Abortion Buffer Zones
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to consider a constitutional challenge to an Illinois city's now-repealed ordinance that created 100-foot speech buffer zones around healthcare facilities providing abortions, shooting down a case aimed at overturning a 20-year-old ruling that such zones don't violate the First Amendment.
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1st Circ. Judge Selya, Admired For 'Selyaisms,' Dies At 90
U.S. Circuit Judge Bruce M. Selya of the First Circuit, whose love of language led to what came to be known as "Selyaisms," died Saturday at 90, the court announced.
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DOJ Hits Judge Weighing Trans Troops Ban With Complaint
The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday filed a misconduct complaint against the D.C. federal judge overseeing litigation challenging President Donald Trump's executive order ostensibly banning transgender troops from serving in the military, accusing her of bias after she hammered government attorneys for answers they provided during a hearing earlier this month.
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'I Shot Her To Death:' Video Shown Of Judge After Killing Wife
Prosecutors showed a video to jurors Friday of a California judge at the police station following his arrest for shooting his wife, where he's seen sobbing, cursing and saying, "My son is going to hate me forever, and she's dead. I shot her to death."
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Up Next At High Court: Straight Discrimination & Trial Rights
The U.S. Supreme Court will return to the bench Monday to debate whether majority-group plaintiffs should be held to higher evidentiary standards when bringing workplace discrimination claims and whether prisoners are entitled to jury trials when questions about pre-suit requirements are intertwined with the merits of their claims.
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California Justices Accept Court Reporter Shortage Case
The California Supreme Court has accepted a case that aims to address the state's court reporter shortage by mandating the use of electronic recording when court reporters are unavailable.