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Off-Limits? Judicial Authority Takes Center Stage in Dispute Over Municipal Utility Rates

"The legislative body whose job it is to decide what the rates should be, whether they encompass profit or not, is the city council," argued appellee counsel Rebecca Woods of Seyfarth Shaw in Atlanta.
8 minute read

National Law Journal

5th Circuit Scrutinizes Under-21 Handgun Sales Ban Based on Supreme Court Test

"I'm puzzled, because it seems to me that your whole argument is premised on some idea that Rahimi changed the landscape quite a bit… and, I think the whole court, actually on this point, said that Bruen is still the test," said Judge Jennifer Elrod.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

10 Lawyers Admitted to Practice Before Georgia's High Court

"I agree that the choice to be a lawyer necessarily includes the choice to be a leader," said Jordan Redavid, founding partner of Fischer Redavid. "To me, that means to be a voice or champion for others in need. I look forward to making good on that as a member of this Court."
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

3rd Circuit Revives Fosamax MDL Over Questions of Preemption

The decision, which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit said was a "close call," hinged on whether an informal communication in the form of a letter the FDA sent to Merck was sufficient to establish preemption.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

'Nobody Else Knows': These Federal Appeals Courts Have Unique Local Rules

The Ninth Circuit is "the only court that has a rule that actually encourages the lawyers to come in and complain about a delay," said Judge Jon Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

NY Government Asks Appellate Court to Lift Injunction on Lawmakers' Outside Earnings Cap

"The days of the gentlemen farmers serving in the state Legislature are long gone," Assemblyman Charles Lavine, D-Glen Cove, said in defense of the cap on outside earnings.
4 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: The Eighth Circuit Knocks Out a $564M Verdict Against BMO in Ponzi Case

Debevoise's John Gleeson, Mayer Brown's Richard Spehr and Elaine Goldenberg of Munger Tolles helped convince the Eighth Circuit that the bankruptcy trustee of a company run by a convicted Minnesota Ponzi schemer couldn't pursue aiding and abetting claims against the bank because the company bore responsibility for its own injury.
10 minute read

National Law Journal

DC Circuit Weighs Copyright Protection for AI-Generated Image

The person seeking protection argued that the Copyright Act doesn't require a piece of work to have a human author to be protected and that, nevertheless, he was involved in the image's creation since he built the AI program that generated it.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

'The Process Is a Minefield': Appellate Div. Mulls Whether Confirmed Superior Court Judge Can Keep Her Pension

"You can plan all day long to be a judge," Presiding Appellate Division Judge Heidi Willis Currier said. "It does not mean that it ever happens, right? It is a unique process...she does not have the ability to say, 'I am going to be a judge,' and that happens, right?"
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Florida Appellate Court Orders Attorney to Be Deposed

"I think it will have a broader impact, because it talks about the attorney-client privilege, and that not everything in the hands of the lawyer is automatically protected," said Kogan, the plaintiff's counsel.
3 minute read

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