Jason Grant
Jason Grant is a staff writer covering legal stories and cases for the New York Law Journal, the National Law Journal and Law.com, and a former practicing attorney. He's written and reported previously for the New York Times, the Star-Ledger, the L.A. Times and other publications. Contact him at [email protected]. On Twitter, pls find him @JasonBarrGrant
December 21, 2022 | Law.com
Special Illinois State Bar Committee to Issue Report on Programs Beneficial to Small, Rural PracticeThe 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
2 minute read
December 19, 2022 | Law.com
Oregon AG: $17M Settlement Reached With Centene Over Inflated Medicaid Costs"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
2 minute read
December 16, 2022 | New York Law Journal
Legal Malpractice Action Levied by NY Doctor Against Medical Malpractice Law Firm Is DismissedThe 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
Citing Mootness, and Rejecting Exception, Connecticut Appeals Court Tosses COVID-19-Based Suit To Enjoin Auction of Woman's PropertyA 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
City Bar's 'Not Well Qualified' Rating for Chief Judge Candidate Oing Draws Criticism"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
Ex-Prosecutor, Convicted of Destroying Text Messages During FBI Investigation, Gets 9-Month Suspension From BarA 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
Appellate Division Justice Jeffrey Oing, Candidate for Chief Judge, Viewed as Highly Personable Consensus-BuilderIf 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
6th Circ.: Voter-Registration Orgs That Obtained Preliminary Injunction Are 'Prevailing Parties' Entitled to Attorney Fees"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
Maine's Court System Starts Email Service For Supreme Court Opinions, Memorandum Decisions, Orders and NoticesThe 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
2 minute read
December 06, 2022 | New York Law Journal
First Department OKs Negligence Claim Against Friars Order in Child Victims Act Case, but Tosses Fiduciary Duty ClaimA 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
7 minute read
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