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Daily Business Review

Son of Political Prisoner, Factory Worker Soars to Legal Heights

Angel Cortiñas, son of a political prisoner who died in a Cuban jail, became an Ivy Leaguer and appellate judge before returning to private practice.
9 minute read

Daily Report Online

Ken Hodges Plans Run for Appeals Court Judgeship

Trial lawyer and former prosecutor Kenneth Hodges III—who became known around the state with a hard-fought, but unsuccessful, campaign for attorney general—has announced plans to run for an open seat on the Georgia Court of Appeals in 2018.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Trump Travel Ban Boomerangs Back to the Ninth Circuit

The Trump administration on Thursday appealed a Hawaii federal judge's preliminary injunction blocking the president's second travel ban, sending the issue back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Split Court Finds WTC Worker Not Covered by 'Scaffold Law'

New York's "scaffold law" does not automatically make employers liable for injuries their workers suffer in on-the-job falls, the state's highest court said in a sharply divided ruling Thursday.
9 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Judge Rejects Bid to Overturn $5M Sex Abuse Verdict

A Philadelphia judge has upheld a more than $5 million verdict over sex abuse against a foster care agency, rejecting a bid to have the verdict overturned due in part to post-verdict research of jurors that revealed two had possibly lied during voir dire.
8 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

NL Indus., Inc. v. State

By | March 30, 2017
State Not Liable for Pre-Spill Act Discharge in Absence of Waiver of Sovereign Immunity
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

ALIments Krispy Kernels, Inc v. Nichols Farms

By | March 30, 2017
Summary Judgment Inappropriate Over Whether Parties Bound to Contract Containing Arbitration Clauses
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

State Officials, Seminole Tribe Target Judge's Ruling on Games

Florida officials and the Seminole Tribe are asking a Tallahassee judge to reconsider a ruling they contend could open the floodgates for thousands of unregulated slot machines in bars, strip malls and convenience stores throughout the state.
7 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

Justices to Consider Trump Request to Delay Water Case

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday will consider the Trump administration's request that the justices indefinitely delay briefing on a key issue in pending challenges against an Obama-era environmental rule that broadened the scope of protections accorded to U.S waterways.
13 minute read

New York Law Journal

Panel Orders Release of Special State School Aid

An appeals court has vacated a stay that had allowed New York state to continue withholding $69 million in aid to 19 troubled schools that are seeking to exit state designation as "persistently struggling" institutions.
3 minute read

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