Avalon Zoppo

August 28, 2024 | National Law Journal

The president picked Elizabeth C. Coombe, the first assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District of New York since 2018, for a seat on the federal district court there located in Syracuse.

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August 28, 2024 | National Law Journal

Judges Reena Raggi, Richard Sullivan and John M. Walker Jr. on Wednesday said there's enough evidence for a reasonable jury to find actual malice.

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August 28, 2024 | National Law Journal

Cannon, in dismissing the case, found Smith wasn't put on the case in accordance with the Appointments Clause.

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August 27, 2024 | National Law Journal

The panel found that the lower court wrongly dismissed the electric car company's allegations that members of the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission and the Louisiana Automobile Dealers Association conspired to stop it from carrying out its business model of directly leasing and servicing cars through its own stores.

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August 23, 2024 | National Law Journal

"[T]he majority is mistaken to brush 'Loper Bright' aside and treat it as irrelevant to the interpretation of regulatory language," Judge Carlos Bea wrote in a concurrence.

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3 minute read

August 22, 2024 | National Law Journal

Judge Milan Smith Jr. noted a disagreement between circuit courts on whether state claims arising in a bankruptcy proceeding must be lodged in federal court.

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August 21, 2024 | National Law Journal

Appeals court considers whether the state's prohibition violates the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause.

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4 minute read

August 20, 2024 | National Law Journal

The request follows a federal judge having thrown out an anti-pregnancy-discrimination law, saying the House of Representatives lacked a constitutional quorum of members present.

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August 20, 2024 | National Law Journal

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit continues to set the stage for likely Supreme Court decisions on administrative law.

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5 minute read

August 15, 2024 | National Law Journal

"People view the courts as this establishment, but when you listen to oral histories … it's really about individual people coming together to make this happen," said Third Circuit librarian Melissa Bernstein. "The character of the court changes every time there's a new judge who comes on."

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