Allison Dunn

July 31, 2023 | Law.com

"Attorney General Marshall's threats require healthcare providers in Alabama to choose between their own liberty and freedom, and their ethical responsibility to fully inform pregnant patients of their healthcare options out of state. Over the last year, these threats have prevented pregnant Alabamians from accessing comprehensive information about their legal healthcare options, and the support they may depend on to access those options," Alison Mollman, senior counsel with the ACLU of Alabama, said in a statement. "The consequences are not theoretical, they are real and can be deadly. It's time for Attorney General Marshall's threats to be recognized for what they are: unconstitutional and contrary to Alabama law."

By Allison Dunn

4 minute read

July 28, 2023 | The Recorder

This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.

By Allison Dunn

6 minute read

July 27, 2023 | Corporate Counsel

Foley & Lardner partner Louis Lehot said Big Tech wants to help lessen worries about AI's downsides, but without "getting stuck with some type of legislation or regulation that doesn't make any sense or that crushes it."

By Allison Dunn

5 minute read

July 25, 2023 | Law.com

The largest single award was a payment of $65,192 to the beneficiary of an estate in which Richard Gibson Wohltman was a co-executor. The board found that Wohltman committed dishonest conduct in theft, conversion, embezzlement or withholding money from the estate, and that the attorney did not perform the work for which he billed services, according to the bar's media release.

By Allison Dunn

3 minute read

July 24, 2023 | Law.com

This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.

By Allison Dunn

4 minute read

July 24, 2023 | Law.com

"Newport knew about the protruding 'lip' of the granite margin and planned to eliminate it in the spring through the application of a final course of asphalt that would make the roadway surface flush with the granite," an appellate court judge wrote. "At the time of the incident, the granite protrusion lacked any traffic cones, warning signs, or paint. As Newport's construction manager put it, he believed paint was not necessary because the protrusion was 'not in a pedestrian path of travel.'"

By Allison Dunn

4 minute read

July 21, 2023 | Law.com

"With the stroke of his pen, Judge Copperthite has fanned the flames of bigotry, racism, and xenophobia, allowing insidious perpetrators to escape the grasp of accountability for causing clinically diagnosed mental and emotional trauma through their reckless public expression of deplorable and divisive beliefs," said plaintiffs counsel Governor Jackson III.

By Allison Dunn

6 minute read

July 21, 2023 | Law.com

"After reviewing the Amended Complaint and Plaintiff's communications with Defendants, the Court finds that Plaintiff's harassing conduct is reprehensible, clearly sanctionable, and not the proper conduct of anyone, let alone a licensed attorney," Senior U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson wrote.

By Allison Dunn

6 minute read

July 21, 2023 | Law.com

According to U.S. Magistrate Judge A. David Copperthite's report and recommendation, he recommended the court award the plaintiffs $1.05 million—$437,819.54 in attorney fees and $613,053.44 in costs. Judge Julie R. Rubin followed that recommendation, according to an order in favor of Keyes filed July 11 in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.

By Allison Dunn

5 minute read

July 21, 2023 | Law.com

"In the instant case, in the absence of evidence that Lenovo will not be able to recover substantially all, if not all, of the deleted materials from its own servers or the SD cards, dismissal is too harsh a punishment," U.S. Magistrate Judge Judith G. Dein of the District of Massachusetts wrote.

By Allison Dunn

6 minute read