Jacqueline Thomsen

December 09, 2021 | National Law Journal

"What Mr. Trump seeks is to have an Article III court intervene and nullify those judgments of the president and Congress, delay the committee's work, and derail the negotiations and accommodations that the political branches have made," the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit found.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

6 minute read

December 09, 2021 | National Law Journal

"The current cost to view or download a filing, ten cents per page, might not seem like a lot, but it quickly adds up and has been a barrier to access to justice for too long," said one advocate for the bill.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

3 minute read

December 08, 2021 | National Law Journal

"Without intervention by this court, Mr. Meadows faces the harm of both being illegally coerced into violating the Constitution and having a third party involuntarily violate Mr. Meadows rights and the requirements of relevant laws governing records of electronic communications," the complaint reads.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

4 minute read

December 06, 2021 | National Law Journal

U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig said Trump "may have had far from noble intentions in filing this lawsuit," but that attorneys waited too long to seek sanctions in the case.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

5 minute read

December 02, 2021 | Law.com

Congress took action on two bills about the federal judiciary this week, and senators are set to soon take up another.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

7 minute read

December 02, 2021 | National Law Journal

At one point the judge asked a lawyer for the Republican members if the attorney was suggesting that the deadly pandemic "is not truly a significant problem confronting the American public."

By Jacqueline Thomsen

4 minute read

December 02, 2021 | National Law Journal

U.S. District Judge Linda Parker said the amount ordered to be paid to the Detroit attorneys "is an amount the court finds needed to deter plaintiffs' counsel and others from engaging in similar misconduct in the future."

By Jacqueline Thomsen

3 minute read

December 02, 2021 | National Law Journal

"Pick any statement you want from this opinion and just imagine that it had been made in the final order dismissing the underlying case. That wouldn't be appealable by the lawyer," one judge said.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

4 minute read

December 01, 2021 | National Law Journal

Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-New York, said the bill "makes incremental but necessary progress toward accountability by building on federal statutes that already prohibit judges from deciding cases in which they have a personal financial stake in the outcome."

By Jacqueline Thomsen

3 minute read

December 01, 2021 | National Law Journal

"By failing to respond to the request, DOJ is depriving plaintiffs and the public of vital information needed to determine whether the government is colluding or conspiring with outside entities to carry out a political agenda," the lawsuit reads.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

3 minute read