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National Law Journal

Ex-GOP Administration Lawyers Urge Rejection of Trump's Special Master Bid

"This special treatment of one private citizen by virtue of his former status [as president] runs contrary to well-established case law," the attorneys wrote. 
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Crowell & Moring, Quinn Emanuel Attorneys Best Boies Schiller in $7 Billion Weapons Contract Dispute

A lower court correctly found tolling issues and limits to federal antitrust law doomed the dispute, the unanimous appeals panel said Tuesday. 
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Texas Secessionists Sue Meta Platforms After Website Banned from Facebook 

"You'd be hard pressed to read those two sections and find the Texas legislature said these cases could be litigated in California," said an attorney for the Texas Nationalist Movement, who argued state law should Trump the company's forum selection clause.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

DOJ, Trump Spar Over Presidential Record Designation in Newly Unsealed Papers

"The relevant time for Trump to have designated records as 'personal' or 'presidential' was during his term in office," wrote U.S. Attorney Juan Antonio Gonzalez. Jackson, the former president said he has wide authority to declare documents taken from his Florida home "personal."
6 minute read

National Law Journal

'Reckless and Factually Untrue': Trump Lawyers to Pay $66K After Failed RICO Suit

U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks late Thursday afternoon, called Trump's failed legal claims "willful, not simply negligent."
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Americans' Opinion on Civil Justice System Offers Plaintiffs Firms Case Strategy Road Map

A recent survey offers clues on how to position a plaintiff's harm, how politics plays into jurors' thinking and how plaintiffs themselves find an attorney.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Fox News Uses Anti-SLAPP Law in Fight Against Businessman's Defamation Claim

Kirkland & Ellis attorneys used the newly-strengthened New York law to take the offensive in a legal battle that stems from the network's reporting on the 2020 U.S. election.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

17 Ex-Defendants Including Hillary Clinton, DNC Seek Total of $1 Million in Fees, Costs Over Trump's Scuttled RICO Lawsuit

"Plaintiff's pleadings and theories were obviously and fatally defective from the very inception of this action," wrote an attorney in the request for sanctions filed in South Florida federal court.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

DACA Recipient Tells Appeals Court His Rescinded ExxonMobil Internship Was Discrimination  

The DACA recipient's attorney argued workplace protections for those like his client should be viewed through the lens of a 2020 Supreme Court decision which extended similar protections to LGBTQ Americans.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Appeals Court Debates Which Amendment Governs Livestreaming of Traffic Stops 

"It seems to me the issue here is what may police do to persons that are subject to a traffic stop or arrest, when they're in police control, what may the police do?" said Circuit Judge Paul Niemeyer.  
6 minute read

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