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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

The Recorder

Greenberg Traurig's Strategy to Recover $4M in Malicious Email Spoofing Attack

"This will be important for people to look at because … I think it will be one of those test cases in the blockchain space," said Dr. Tonya M. Evans, a tenured law professor at Penn State Dickinson Law.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Witness in Corruption Trials Should Be Fully Liable for $12 Million Restitution, Corrections Union Says

Jona Rechnitz was initially ordered to pay nearly $12 million restitution in 2019. In the five years since, he has only paid $315,000, according to court papers.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Texas State Bar Disciplines 8 Attorneys for Rules-of-Conduct Violations

The September disciplinary report of the State Bar of Texas cites six actions by the Board of Disciplinary Appeals taken against named attorneys.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Special Master OKs $1M in Legal Fee Awards Against Sanctioned Pa. County and Lawyer

Jubelirer's report comes more than a year after the state Supreme Court sanctioned Fulton County and attorney Thomas Carroll for "dilatory, obdurate, and vexatious conduct, as well as conduct in bad faith" in the county's challenge to the secretary of state's authority to decertify voting machines.
3 minute read

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