Avalon Zoppo

May 08, 2024 | National Law Journal

The president also makes picks for district court judgeships in Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York.

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2 minute read

May 07, 2024 | National Law Journal

"If upheld, (the statute) would allow the government to decide that a company may no longer own and publish the innovative and unique speech platform it created," the company's complaint states.

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2 minute read

May 07, 2024 | National Law Journal

The state's law, which went into effect last May, criminalizes "recruiting, harboring, or transporting" a pregnant minor to access a legal abortion if the adult has the intent to conceal the abortion from a parent or guardian.

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4 minute read

May 06, 2024 | National Law Journal

"As judges who hire law clerks every year to serve in the federal judiciary, we have lost confidence in Columbia as an institution of higher education," stated the letter sent to Minouche Shafik, the university's president.

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4 minute read

May 06, 2024 | National Law Journal

"We know these cases are coming, we know they're here and that more are coming," said Oregon Supreme Court Justice Rebecca A. Duncan. "What do we need to be aware of? How can we manage these cases? And one of the things that we can be aware of to help us prepare are the resources."

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4 minute read

May 06, 2024 | National Law Journal

It's a simple tool that can save time and energy for multitasking attorneys and help pro se litigants who might especially struggle with learning complex procedural rules, said Clerk of Court Chris Wolpert.

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4 minute read

May 03, 2024 | Law.com

"I doubt that January 6 would have ever occurred had it not been for the enabling of that effort by lawyers of the legal profession," said Michael Luttig, formerly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

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5 minute read

May 01, 2024 | National Law Journal

The challenge to the program seems to be a part of a larger legal strategy to create a circuit split, thus increasing chances of U.S. Supreme Court review, said Andrew Twinamatsiko, director of the Health Policy and the Law Initiative at the O'Neill Institute.

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5 minute read

April 30, 2024 | National Law Journal

"Hopefully, a future panel of this Court, or the Supreme Court, can clarify the law along the lines described here, so that the majority's untenable views are not sustained," Judge Eric Clay wrote.

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3 minute read

April 19, 2024 | Law.com

"If there is not a robust pipeline of decisions going up and coming down where the appellate courts are providing guidance to trial judges, then the consequence is oftentimes a lot of wasted time," said attorney Ryan Baker.

By Avalon Zoppo

7 minute read