Mason Lawlor

May 06, 2022 | Law.com

The Department of Justice, along with state law enforcement, has brought criminal charges against 14 defendants, 12 of them medical professionals, for the illegal sale of opioids.

By Mason Lawlor

2 minute read

May 05, 2022 | Law.com

The move came just weeks after the DOJ, working with Spanish authorities, seized a $90 million yacht owned by another Russian oligarch.

By Mason Lawlor

3 minute read

May 04, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"If I was the chief justice, I would start all over again; I'd have everything reargued, and everything re-briefed, just pull the plug," said former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears. "Obviously it's criminal, and it's a breach of the institution of the Supreme Court, regardless of what side you're on with this issue."

By Mason Lawlor

4 minute read

May 04, 2022 | Law.com

"Deprivation of income (both in the form of wages and of benefits) is a quintessential pocketbook injury, which money damages can remedy," the appeals court said.

By Mason Lawlor

3 minute read

May 03, 2022 | Law.com

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has ruled against two Tennessee police officers who sued the city after being fired for objecting to its proposed police reforms.

By Mason Lawlor

4 minute read

May 03, 2022 | Law.com

A divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has followed a number of other federal courts in eminent domain litigation, giving legal standing to a landowner in Michigan to challenge plans to remove a dam near her property.

By Mason Lawlor

5 minute read

May 02, 2022 | Law.com

A large majority of courts nationwide have sided with insurers in the recent string of pandemic-driven business interruption cases. Nevertheless, a federal judge has asked the Maryland Court of Appeals to weigh in on whether the COVID-19 virus causes "physical loss or damage" to a property such that it triggers coverage.

By Mason Lawlor

4 minute read

April 29, 2022 | Law.com

Former Cintas employees Raymond Hawkins and Robin Lung filed their putative class action under Section 502(a)(2) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, alleging Cintas breached the fiduciary duties it owed to the company's retirement plan

By Mason Lawlor

3 minute read

April 28, 2022 | The Recorder

The California Department of Transportation was previously ordered to give homeless campers six months to relocate before clearing their encampments along the state's freeways. Now, however, Caltrans has gotten the go-ahead to clear out the encampments immediately, thanks to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit's reversal of a district court's injunction.

By Mason Lawlor

4 minute read

April 28, 2022 | Law.com

"[The police department]'s systemic departure from the rule goes far in plausibly averring a pattern and practice claim," U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis of the District of Maryland said. "Additionally, that same year, [the department] executed such warrants in a vacuum of training and guidance."

By Mason Lawlor

3 minute read