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The Legal Intelligencer

ACLU, Phila. City Paper Challenge Law Aimed at Felons' Speech

The Pennsylvania ACLU and several media outlets, including the Philadelphia City Paper, are challenging a state law they claim is aimed at silencing convicted felons and those who publish the words of felons.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judge Rebuffs Terrorist's Plea to Avoid 'Supermax'

In an unusual proceeding Friday, the lawyer for convicted terrorist preacher Mustafa Kamel Mustafa used all of his time trying to keep his client out of the ADX Florence or "Supermax" prison in Colorado.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Judicial Fundraising Case Recalls Florida's Corrupt Past

Former reporter Martin Dyckman, whose book is a key part of the judicial fundraising case, said, "Anything we can do to put some kind of fire wall between the judge and the hustling of money is not only right but necessary."
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Defendant Seeks $177K From Hagens Berman in Thalidomide Cases

One of the defendants in a cluster of thalidomide lawsuits in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania is seeking nearly $177,000 in fees as a sanction against the plaintiffs' counsel, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Office of Open Records Head to Join Pepper Hamilton

Terry Mutchler, the first executive director of Pennsylvania's Office of Open Records, will be leaving the office to head up a new practice within Pepper Hamilton's media and communications group.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Wrongfully Imprisoned Man Cleared of Murder Conviction

A Brooklyn man who said he was framed by a detective, which led to a wrongful murder conviction and more than 20 years of incarceration, has been cleared of the crime after prosecutors deemed the case's sole witness unreliable.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Telenovela Producers Fight Sanctions in Dispute

A Venezuelan television network is trying to get a federal magistrate to reverse himself and reject sanctions in a bitter telenovela fight with Telemundo.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Broker Gets 2-Year Sentence for Role in Scott Rothstein's Ponzi Scheme

Richard Pearson is sentenced on a guilty plea for helping bring investors to defunct Fort Lauderdale law firm Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler.
1 minute read

Daily Business Review

See How Judge Milton Hirsch's Career Came By Happenstance

Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Milton Hirsch found criminal law addicting, like the time he said a baseball player was too stupid to be guilty.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Dewey Left Out of Latest Fees in Six-Year-Old Case

Judge Denny Chin has awarded most of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's recent fee request but denied any further fee awards to the estate of Dewey & LeBoeuf. Both firms represented a receiver appointed to take control of properties and assets of an investment firm tied to a Ponzi scheme.
7 minute read

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