Jason Grant

December 21, 2022 | Law.com

The committee has been tasked with "examining and making recommendations on how ISBA can best serve the needs of lawyers practicing in rural areas of Illinois," according to the bar association.

By Jason Grant

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December 19, 2022 | Law.com

"This pharmacy partnership with Centene was meant to help some our most vulnerable, but this company took advantage of Oregon," said Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum.

By Jason Grant

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December 16, 2022 | New York Law Journal

The Appellate Division, First Department court focused on Dr. Peter Foley Rizzo's failure to "adequately plead proximate causation" as part of his malpractice counterclaim lodged against the Manhattan-based firm of Belair & Evans, which had sued the physician for allegedly unpaid legal fees.

By Jason Grant

5 minute read

December 15, 2022 | Connecticut Law Tribune

A Connecticut appeals court has tossed out as moot a woman's lawsuit aimed at enjoining Norwich from auctioning off her property based on her contention that COVID-19 societal restrictions would lessen its value.

By Jason Grant

5 minute read

December 14, 2022 | New York Law Journal

"It's not a fair process" in general, a former longtime justice said of bar groups' ratings of candidates for positions like chief judge. "Some [committees] have people on them with agendas that they don't reveal," he said.

By Jason Grant

10 minute read

December 12, 2022 | Law.com

A former Maine prosecutor has been suspended from practicing law for nine months after pleading guilty last March to destroying evidence—text messages from her own cellphone—during an FBI investigation into a $13 million marijuana operation that her next-door neighbor was allegedly part of.

By Jason Grant

4 minute read

December 07, 2022 | New York Law Journal

If Oing gets the position, he will become New York's first Asian-American Court of Appeals justice and its first Asian-American chief judge.

By Jason Grant

8 minute read

December 07, 2022 | Law.com

"In this case, the district court issued a preliminary injunction that, for purposes of litigation in the district court, was final in all but name," wrote U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Judge Raymond Kethledge on behalf of a two-judge majority panel. One judge dissented.

By Jason Grant

6 minute read

December 07, 2022 | Law.com

The notices that the court issues include invitations for amicus or "friend of the Court" briefs in cases before it and invitations for comments on proposed amendments to court rules or other matters under consideration by the Judicial Branch, the judicial branch said.

By Jason Grant

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December 06, 2022 | New York Law Journal

A state appeals court has denied a Catholic order of friars' motion to dismiss a negligence lawsuit brought against it under New York's groundbreaking Child Victims Act by a 70-year-old man who alleges that in 1963 he was sexually abused as a Brooklyn altar boy. But it has tossed out the man's breach-of-fiduciary-duty claim against the friars.

By Jason Grant

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