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Justices Set To Review Feds' Suit Over 'Ghost Gun' Exception
The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments Tuesday over whether "ghost gun" assembly kits and their accessories, which are unserialized and untraceable, can be considered firearms and therefore subject to licensing requirements under the Gun Control Act of 1968.
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High Court Doubts States Can Police Federal Rights Claims
The U.S. Supreme Court seemed poised Monday to strike down an Alabama law requiring litigants to exhaust state administrative remedies before they file claims in state court accusing local officials of violating federal rights, with several justices suggesting the court already answered that question almost 40 years ago.
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New Bill Would Enact 'Commonsense' Litigation Disclosures
A top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee announced Monday he introduced legislation to require the disclosure of parties receiving payments in civil lawsuits, a phenomenon known as "third-party litigation financing," in order to prevent abuses in the legal system.
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5 Decisions To Know By Outgoing Mass. Chief Judge
Chief Massachusetts U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV, who announced Monday that he will step back from full-time judicial service next summer, has presided over numerous significant cases in recent years, including a dispute over the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's disgorgement powers and a birth defects suit against GlaxoSmithKline.
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Sparring With Adams, Feds Shadowbox The Supreme Court
The corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams may be the next front in an ongoing clash between federal prosecutors' desire to police official misconduct and a line of U.S. Supreme Court cases holding that alleged graft does not always amount to a federal crime.
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Court Punts Case Over Trump's 'Eating The Dogs' Comments
An Ohio county prosecutor is better suited than a court to decide if criminal charges are warranted against Donald Trump and vice presidential candidate JD Vance for allegedly fueling harassment, including bomb threats, against Haitian migrants, an Ohio court has ruled.
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Feds Seek Tape, Allege Witness Tampering In WeWork Case
Prosecutors asked Sunday to subpoena a recording of an incident in which they say a former investment firm CEO who is accused of making a fraudulent offer for WeWork shares had improper contact with a witness expected to testify at the ex-CEO's upcoming trial.
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Holland & Knight Adds Former US Attorney In Nashville
Holland & Knight LLP announced Monday that a former U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee has come aboard in Nashville, Tennessee, as a partner, boosting the firm's healthcare regulatory and enforcement practice.
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Meet The Defense Duo Going To Bat For Diddy In RICO Case
Teny Geragos and Marc Agnifilo were already known for winning acquittals for high-profile, and frequently loathed, defendants before launching their own criminal defense boutique in March, but their biggest challenge might be ahead of them as they gear up to represent Sean “Diddy” Combs in a likely explosive criminal trial.
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9th Circ. Nixes Judicial Complaint Over Atty 'Disbar' Threat
The Ninth Circuit has rejected a judicial misconduct complaint against a judge who allegedly suggested that he could "disbar" a lawyer.
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Mich. Says Local Courts' ADA Compliance Is Not Its Job
A proposed class of disabled attorneys lacks standing to pursue civil rights claims against Michigan alleging courthouses were inaccessible, the state has told a federal judge, arguing it is not responsible for local facilities and is otherwise protected by sovereign immunity under state disability laws.
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DOJ Fraud Assistant Chief Joins McGovern Weems In DC
An official in the U.S. Department of Justice's Fraud Section has left to join McGovern Weems LLC after a decade with the federal agency, bringing extensive trial experience to the white collar firm.
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Ga. Asks Justices To Ignore Meadows' Election Removal Bid
Georgia county prosecutors fought a bid by former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to move his election interference case into federal court, telling the U.S. Supreme Court that the legal issues at play require more "percolation" before they are ripe for review.
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Massachusetts' Chief Federal Judge To Take Senior Status
U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV of Massachusetts has notified President Joe Biden he will take senior status on July 31, 2025, the court announced Monday.
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Ga. Judge Faces Ethics Charges Over Yearslong Case Delays
A Georgia probate court judge faces multiple ethics charges for supposedly delaying a series of cases, the most severe of which has sat open for more than seven years.
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Defiant Philly Judge Gets Suspended For Political Posts
A Pennsylvania judge who flouted conduct rules by making political posts was suspended without pay Monday, a matter the state's judicial ethics court called historic because of the jurist's repeated defiance of warnings.
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Justices Won't Review Judge's Non-Recusal In Al-Qaida Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to probe whether a D.C. Circuit judge, previously a government attorney, should have recused himself from a former al-Qaida member's appeal of a life sentence for terrorism and war crimes.
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Top 5 Supreme Court Cases To Watch This Fall
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear several cases in its October 2024 term that could further refine the new administrative law landscape, establish constitutional rights to gender-affirming care for transgender minors and affect how the federal government regulates water, air and weapons. Here, Law360 looks at five of the most important cases on the Supreme Court's docket so far.
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Atty Who Defied License Ban Asks Court To Rethink Jail Time
A disbarred attorney asked the Florida Supreme Court on Friday to reconsider its decision to send him to jail for 60 days for allegedly repeatedly practicing law without a license, including continuing to market himself as a licensed attorney.
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Election Litigation Looms Over New Supreme Court Term
The U.S. Supreme Court justices return to the bench Monday for a new term, even as the dust continues to settle from the shifts in administrative law and foundational changes to presidential immunity that headlined their last sitting. But experts say any hope that this term may be calmer is wishful thinking, in large part due to all-but-certain litigation over the presidential election.
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Retired Judge Says Unpaid Services Suit's Claims 'Untimely'
Retired U.S. Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner asked an Indiana federal court on Friday to grant him a summary judgment win in litigation alleging he stiffed a man out of a six-figure salary after hiring him to run a now-defunct pro bono legal services organization, saying the suit's claims are "untimely."
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Oversight Dems Probe Chief Justice On Jan. 6 Case Handling
Two House Democrats on the oversight committee questioned U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts Friday on recent reporting he replaced Justice Samuel Alito as the author of a decision on a Jan. 6 case after the public learned the latter justice's wife flew flags at their homes with ties to the "Stop the Steal" movement.
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High Court Bar's Future: Jenner & Block's Adam Unikowsky
In many ways, Adam G. Unikowsky of Jenner & Block LLP has traveled a tried-and-true path — Harvard, elite clerkships, BigLaw — to the upper echelons of U.S. Supreme Court advocacy. But his route to the forefront of the bar's next generation has been less conventional than it might appear, and he spoke with Law360 about how he's climbed so high — and how he excels by avoiding rhetoric that "judges really, really hate."
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Up First At High Court: Civil Rights, Ghost Guns, Atty Fees
The U.S. Supreme Court reconvenes Monday to start a brand-new term, with the justices first hearing arguments related to prerequisites for litigating federal rights in state courts, ghost gun regulations, and whether a death row inmate is entitled to a new trial after a state admits that prosecutorial misconduct might have led to his conviction.
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A Month Into Texas Biz Court, Removal Questions Loom
One month into the Texas Business Court's operations, the largest looming question is how judges across the state will handle removals of preexisting cases into the Lone Star State's newest venue, experts told Law360.