By Greg Land | March 18, 2021
The settlement comes after a federal judge refused to grant the officer qualified immunity in the 2016 shooting of Michael Dashawn Moore.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Katheryn Tucker | March 18, 2021
"As Uber would tell it, when plaintiffs filed their disability-discrimination suit in federal court, they wound themselves in a Gordian knot," Judge Cheryl Ann Krause said. "Our precedent, however, makes this case far less knotty than Uber suggests."
By Charles Toutant | March 17, 2021
The plaintiff found herself at the center of a viral news story about digital removal of a "Donald Trump: Make America Great Again" logo from the T-shirt of a student in a yearbook photo.
By Greg Land | March 17, 2021
Lawyers for a man wounded when an Atlanta officer fired five shots into a car at the Magic City club said the appeals court ruling clears the way for that case and two similar ones to proceed to trial.
By Katheryn Tucker | March 16, 2021
"Our judges have taken an oath to uphold the law. And many will tell you they go to bed at night worried about how they can push cases to resolution without endangering the public health of all those who come to our courthouses," Chief Justice Harold Melton said. "In some cases, it has cost them their lives."
By Katheryn Tucker | March 16, 2021
"The Georgia Public Defender Council would be most unwise to decline to contract with Duke's counsel on remand," Justice Nels Peterson said in a separate concurrence, noting that murder defendant Ryan Duke "may very well have a constitutional right to state funded experts."
By Jane Wester | March 15, 2021
The ruling comes amid a variety of legal and regulatory battles in New York involving the NRA, which has announced plans to leave the state altogether and reincorporate in Texas.
New Jersey Law Journal | Commentary
By Law Journal Editorial Board | March 14, 2021
The marketplace of ideas is not the marketplace for freight car space.
By Anila Yoganathan | March 12, 2021
In 2017, after it was sued under the First Amendment, the University of Florida reversed its decision to reject a request for Richard Spencer, a well-known white supremacist, to speak on its campus. Spencer's speech was drowned out by protesters.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Jason Grant | March 12, 2021
The decision hinged on the appeals panel's analysis of an issue of first impression in state court: Whether a finding that a local employee was acting under color of state law when an employee-incident happened means a locality must indemnify the employee under state's Political Subdivision Tort Claims Act, which says a local agency must indemnify an employee for actions undertaken within the scope of their duties.
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