By B. Colby Hamilton | August 31, 2017
The Second Circuit found Thursday that the New York high court's narrowing of state criminal impersonation and fraud statutes required the dismissal of some convictions in 'Golb v. Attorney General of the State of New York'. But that wasn't enough to get a Dead Sea scrolls scholar entirely off the hook for impersonating other scholars in an attempt to embarrass or do their reputations harm for disagreeing with his father's interpretation of the ancient texts.
By Katheryn Hayes Tucker | August 31, 2017
A crowd gathered in the rain Thursday morning to break ground for the $122 million Georgia Judicial Complex near the State Capitol.
By Michael Booth | August 31, 2017
A New Jersey appeals court—dispensing with a criminal defendant's efforts to parse statutory language—has given an expansive interpretation to a state law that criminalizes the practice of "upskirting."
By Jim Saunders | August 29, 2017
Attorneys for a Palm Beach County millionaire convicted of DUI manslaughter will go before the Florida Supreme Court this week to challenge state rules for testing blood-alcohol levels in drunken-driving cases.
By Charles Toutant | August 29, 2017
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has upheld a $350,000 restitution order against a lawyer who was convicted in a scheme to defraud his law firm and its clients.
By Charles Toutant | August 28, 2017
The politically motivated George Washington Bridge access lane closures at the center of the Bridgegate scandal were not a crime, co-defendants William Baroni Jr. and Bridget Kelly have asserted in appeals of their criminal convictions.
By Katheryn Hayes Tucker | August 28, 2017
U.S. Attorney John Horn announces a second screening of a 45-minute documentary he calls "our movie"—"Released: When Does the Sentence End?" Horn's office commissioned the film.
By Frederick P. Sisto | August 28, 2017
On June 10, the New Jersey Supreme Court decided State v. Dunbar. This unanimous decision overturned state precedent requiring reasonable suspicion of contraband before police can deploy a canine sniff.
By Zack Needles | August 25, 2017
Just over a year after the U.S. Supreme Court vacated Terrance Williams' death sentence based on a finding that former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille should have recused from the case, a four-justice state Supreme Court has deadlocked on remand, letting stand a lower court's ruling entitling Williams to a new penalty phase of his trial.
By B. Colby Hamilton | August 25, 2017
The Second Circuit's split decision in an insider trading case 'United States v. Martoma' was a clear win for attorneys at the DOJ and SEC. But it may not put to rest uncertainty over the nature of relationships that may create liability under securities law.
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