By Greg Land | June 28, 2018
In a 2-1 ruling, the Georgia Court of Appeals said sovereign immunity protected the city of Albany from liability for renewing an occupancy license for a crime-plagued recording studio where a young man was murdered.
The American Lawyer | Analysis
By Ben Seal | June 27, 2018
Big Law firms pushed back against partisan redistricting in a series of notable pro bono cases.
By Cheryl Miller | June 26, 2018
“Having won a landmark judgment against them in court, we will not allow them to undermine the judicial process through this unconstitutional abuse of the initiative system," a Santa Clara County lawyer says.
By Brendan Farrington, Associated Press | June 25, 2018
As of July 1, Walton County Sheriff Michael Adkinson said his deputies will have to start arresting people who put their beach blankets down in front of private homes and refuse to leave.
New York Law Journal | Letter to the Editor
By Richard A. Brown | June 25, 2018
The legislature has elected to pass legislation that subjects prosecutors, alone among those who practice law, to a duplicative and intrusive process that is not only violative of the state constitution, but will surely cause delay to the progress of ongoing investigations and prosecutions, much to the detriment of all New Yorkers.
By Dan Clark | June 25, 2018
The measure, passed by the state Legislature at the end of its session, promises to make using digital mapping services in court a lot easier and may also save litigants time and money
By Greg Land | June 22, 2018
The Court of Appeals said Georgia's anti-SLAPP suit protects attorney Michael Neff from a defamation suit filed by a young driver he sued after she was accused of using Snapchat's Speed Filter to take a selfie just before she hit another car.
By Michael Booth | June 22, 2018
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation that bars anyone under the age of 18 from getting married, ruling out marriages previously allowed in cases of parental consent.
By Jeffrey Turkel | June 22, 2018
A discussion of three proposals introduced by tenant advocates in the New York State Legislature: the Urstadt Law, limits on MCI rent increases, and the elimination of high rent vacancy deregulation. These proposals, and others to come, will be debated in Albany next year when the rent laws come up for renewal.
By Jennifer J. Corcoran and Mario D. Cometti | June 22, 2018
A future marijuana-friendly New York state could have attorneys seeing green as cannabis-based businesses seek assistance navigating the complicated process of state laws, including those related to real estate transactions and landlord-tenant laws.
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