A lawyer has failed to persuade a federal appeals court that his missed deadline should be excused because of his difficulty filing a complaint with an electronic case filing system.
Dec 21, 2022 12:30 PM CST
A New York lawyer was convicted Friday in
a scheme to recruit people to participate in staged slip-and-fall accidents and then to undergo unnecessary surgeries to increase the value of their claims.
Dec 20, 2022 9:05 AM CST
Standing issues and a lack of notice have doomed a challenge to a transgender-inclusive sports policy. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at New York ruled Friday against four cisgender athletes in Connecticut who alleged that the policy deprived them of a fair shot at statewide track titles in high school.
Dec 19, 2022 10:50 AM CST
Alanna Smith (from left), Selina Soule and Chelsea Mitchell prepare to speak at a news conference in February 2020 outside the Connecticut State Capitol. They are three of four cisgender athletes who alleged that a transgender-inclusive sports policy deprived them of a fair shot at statewide track titles in high school. Photo by Pat Eaton-Robb/The Associated Press.
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Rudy Giuliani committed ethics violation in election suit, committee says
A hearing committee in Washington, D.C., made a preliminary finding Thursday that lawyer Rudy Giuliani committed at least one ethics…
Dec 16, 2022 3:00 PM CST
A federal judge had the inherent power to order sanctions against two lawyers for their lawsuit alleging that a voting machine company, Facebook and other defendants violated the constitutional rights of every person registered to vote in the 2020 presidential election.
Dec 14, 2022 3:37 PM CST
A First Amendment action brought against the University of Idaho by Christian Legal Society members who believe the Bible rejects same-sex marriage has settled for $90,000.
Dec 12, 2022 1:24 PM CST
A federal appeals court has refused to disturb a judge’s ruling in favor of Walmart, despite her ownership of company stock.
Dec 12, 2022 10:49 AM CST
A public defender who can’t serve on a New York jury because of a 2009 felony drug conviction is a plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the state’s ban on jurors with felony convictions as applied in Manhattan, New York City.
Dec 12, 2022 8:43 AM CST
Updated: A New York judge has ordered Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer to pay more than $150,000 for failing to notify the state of New York of relevant late-discovered documents in opioid litigation and for other "discovery breaches."
Dec 8, 2022 1:22 PM CST
An Illinois appeals court has upheld a gag order preventing suspended lawyer Joel A. Brodsky from revealing what happened to the missing fourth wife of a former client.
Dec 8, 2022 11:15 AM CST
Georgia has climbed to the top spot in a ranking of “judicial hellholes” by the American Tort Reform Foundation.
Dec 7, 2022 2:22 PM CST
The Trump Organization’s appeal of its tax fraud conviction will partly focus on whether the actions of the chief financial officer were made “in behalf of” the company, according to one of the defense lawyers.
Dec 7, 2022 11:07 AM CST
A suspect charged with ethnic intimidation for yelling slurs outside a historic Michigan synagogue showed his disdain for the judge in an unrelated case during an online hearing Tuesday.
Dec 7, 2022 9:00 AM CST
An Indiana judge is facing an ethics complaint contending that he made undignified comments in a custody case when he told the father to “zip it” and “shut up” and declared: “This is just bulls- - -.”
Dec 7, 2022 8:35 AM CST
Jurors in Manhattan, New York City, convicted the Trump Organization of tax fraud Tuesday following a trial that focused on lavish corporate perks to executives that weren’t reported as income.
Dec 6, 2022 3:55 PM CST