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New Jersey Law Journal

This Lawyer's Car Won't Start, and Now His Lemon Law Claim Has Stalled

Michael Hanus used the Audi to travel to and from his law office, to the courthouse and to visit clients, but he used a different vehicle on the weekends or when transporting his children because of the Audi's mechanical problems, according to court documents.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

A Judge Wanted to Demolish the Criminal Justice System

The State Commission on Judicial Conduct catalogs a lengthy record of actions taken by the former judge that showed an extreme bias against prosecutors, law enforcement, victims of domestic violence, standard judicial procedures.
4 minute read

Legaltech News

Court Orders Martin Shrekli to Hand Over Wu-Tang Album in Misappropriation Case 

U.S. District Judge Pamela Chen of the Eastern District of New York issued a preliminary injunction against Shkreli preventing him from streaming or disseminating copies of the one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album he forfeited as part of his criminal fraud conviction in 2017.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Disney's Black Eye Over Arbitration Gambit Likely to Linger, Underscoring PR Risks of Spurning Courts

"What resonates longer is the way that people will feel about Disney, not the recollection of why they feel that way," said Aaron Davis, a partner at Davis Goldman.
6 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Lawsuit Linking Zantac to Cancer Diagnoses Survives Fight Over Jurisdiction

Waterbury Superior Court Judge W. Glen Pierson ruled that defendants, having registered to do business in Connecticut, consented to the jurisdiction of the state's courts.
4 minute read

Litigation Daily

For Sheppard Mullin Pro Bono Team, Three Big Disability Rights Wins in One Day

Sheppard Mullin pro bono partner Daniel Brown began working on disability rights issues after his brother became a wheelchair user after a spinal cord injury.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Georgia Court Tells Trump Campaign to Stop Using 'Hold On, I'm Coming'

While many artists have publicly complained about use of their songs by political campaigns, the case filed by the estate of Isaac Hayes is one of the few to reach a courtroom.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

US Judge Rejects Trump's Attempt to Remove NY Criminal Case to Federal Court

"Nothing in the Supreme Court's Opinion affects my previous conclusion that the hush money payments were private, unofficial acts, outside the bounds of executive authority," Judge Alvin Hellerstein of the Southern District of New York wrote.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Bureau of Prisons Designates White-Collar Defendant to Alternative Prison Following Novel Ruling

Federal Judge Gary Brown ruled he would vacate a prior carceral sentence in the event the BOP designated a septuagenarian defendant to an "inhumane" facility in Brooklyn. The Bureau of Prisons will send the man elsewhere.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Ex-Aide to NY Governors Is Charged With Foreign Agent Registration Violations

Linda Sun was arrested at her Long Island home on Tuesday. She stands accused of violating and conspiring to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act, visa fraud, alien smuggling, and money laundering conspiracy.
3 minute read

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