By Cogan Schneier | August 28, 2017
Two lawsuits were filed Monday against President Donald Trump's ban on transgender people serving in the military, with help from firms like Kirkland & Ellis and Covington & Burling.
By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | August 25, 2017
FCA Qui Tam Suit Alleging Firm's 'Infiltration' By Mafia Dismissed as Frivolous, Baseless
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 Katelyn Polantz | August 25, 2017
Kevin Downing, a tax partner at Miller & Chevalier in Washington, D.C., left the firm Thursday. He will continue to advise President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort, who reportedly received subpoenas Friday from a federal grand jury probing a public relations firm that did work for Ukraine.
By Carl W. Hittinger and Tyson Y. Herrold | August 25, 2017
Last month we discussed the role of the presidency in formulating antitrust policy, pointing out the fallacy of the view that the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice has historically been (or should be) completely independent of the White House. We posited that history shows that the Antitrust Division's enforcement decisions have been (and should be) a product of informed presidential policy and that past presidents have attempted to apply the Sherman Act in a way that balances the panoply of challenges, both foreign and domestic, that every president elected by the people invariably faces.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | August 25, 2017
Petitioner, a former cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point who did not graduate from the school or ever obligate himself to perform any subsequent military service, did not qualify as a "soldier" within the meaning of the state's Veterans' Preference Act. The lower court erred in granting petitioner veterans' preference.
By Cogan Schneier | August 24, 2017
D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert E. Morin ruled from the bench Thursday that the government can proceed with its search warrant, but must provide reports to the court on how it will search the data.
By Victoria Hudgins | August 24, 2017
Governor-approved clemency should trigger simultaneous criminal record expungement, two state senators said in a recent memorandum.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | August 24, 2017
Following is a listing of executive and legislative action from the week of Aug. 21. At press time, the Pennsylvania Senate stood in recess subject to the call of President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati, and the state House of Representatives stood in recess subject to the call of Speaker Mike Turzai.
By Victoria Hudgins | August 24, 2017
Record Expungement Reps. John T. Galloway, D-Bucks County, and Vanessa Lowery Brown, D-Philadelphia, issued a memorandum stating their plan to extend the statute of repose to attain civil action against builders or contractors whose construction work led to defects or deficiencies caused by incorrect planning or construction.
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