By Tony Mauro | June 19, 2017
Elizabeth Prelogar, a former law clerk to Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan, appears to be fluent in Russian. She formerly worked in private practice at Hogan Lovells.
By P.J. D'Annunzio | June 19, 2017
A Hershey's chocolate taste-tester, a school nurse and a woman who thwarted a jewelry store robbery with her bare hands are among the jurors who will decide Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams' fate in his trial on bribery and fraud charges.
By Kristen Rasmussen | June 19, 2017
A federal judge in the Eastern District has dismissed charges accusing a Long Island doctor of overprescribing opioid medication. The doctor had used the novel defense of accusing pharmaceutical companies of being responsible, but the judge dismissed the charges because the indictment failed to include necessary statutory elements. U.S. Attorney's office says it will file a new indictment.
By Lizzy McLellan | June 19, 2017
For Americans tuning in to the trial, the criminal case against Bill Cosby offered an irresistible contrast: "America's dad" vs. alleged sexual predator. But the case was also unusual from a lawyer's perspective—peppered with legal oddities and raising unprecedented questions of law.
By Charles Toutant | June 19, 2017
An appeals court has ruled that two consecutive suits by a criminal defendant against his defense attorneys in the same case do not constitute a violation of the entire controversy doctrine.
By Peter H. Lederman | June 19, 2017
More people arrested for DWI should receive the kind of support that Tiger Woods is getting.
By Edward M. Spiro and Judith L. Mogul | June 19, 2017
In their Southern District Civil Practice Roundup, Edward M. Spiro and Judith L. Mogul write: Although a party or witness in civil litigation may invoke the Fifth Amendment, such invocation often comes at a high price, because, in contrast to the criminal context, the finder of fact in a civil case may draw an adverse inference against the party or witness who declines to provide evidence based on the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination. Recent decisions from the Southern District address when and how the Fifth Amendment can be invoked in civil litigation, and the ramifications to litigants when parties and non-party witnesses avail themselves of that privilege.
By Tony Mauro | June 19, 2017
In a unanimous decision written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the court made numerous references to the importance of social media as a source of news and a forum for the exchange of views.
By Jules Epstein | June 19, 2017
No area of law may be more vexing, and more subject to dispute, than the admission or exclusion of "other acts" evidence—often mis-labeled "prior bad acts" evidence—in criminal cases. Evidence of an "act" that only conveys the actor's character is inadmissible; but evidence with a non-character purpose may be admissible, subject to a balancing test.
By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | June 19, 2017
Passenger Granted Suppression of Evidence Recovered After Vehicle's Stop, Seizure
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