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Fulton Commission OKs $6M in Justice Reinvestment Spending

The Fulton County Commission has approved more than $6 million in spending for the county's Justice Reinvestment Initiative, a multipronged program aimed at reducing the population at the Fulton County Jail, improving behavioral health care for inmates and moving cases more quickly through the courts.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Manhattan Federal Court Seeks Magistrate Judges

The Southern District is looking to fill upcoming vacancies of two veteran magistrate judges, Ronald Ellis and James Francis IV, who are stepping down after decades of service.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Cuomo, Judiciary Find Accord on Spending Plan

Gov. Andrew Cuomo expressed no problems with the Judiciary's $2.18 billion budget request for 2017-18 when the governor released his $152.3 billion budget on Tuesday.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Business Bar Hails Wilson, a Commercial Litigator, for Court of Appeals

The commercial bar has advocated for years for an experienced commercial litigator to be placed on New York's highest court, and hailed Gov. Cuomo's nomination of Cravath litigator Rowan Wilson.
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New Jersey Law Journal

Practice Restrictions on Retired State Judges Go Too Far

We believe that rule goes too far, and that our retired judges should be permitted to write briefs and argue cases pro bono, for legal services organizations and the Public Defender's Office.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Legislature Set to Consider Mandatory E-Filing; 2 Vendors Vie for Jurisdictions

Among the prefiled legislation for this year's session of the Georgia General Assembly is a bill that will mandate all superior courts in the state to require electronic civil filings by Jan. 1, 2018.
16 minute read

Daily Business Review

Florida Bar Files Ethics Charges Against Attorney

The Florida Bar Wednesday filed ethics charges against attorney Ramon Manuel Rodriguez, accused of knowingly filing and prosecuting a frivolous perjury case against opposing counsel at Lewis Tein.
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Conduct Panel Admonishes Town Justice for Facebook Posts

A town court justice from northern New York has been admonished for comments she made on her Facebook account about a criminal matter pending in another court.
3 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

How a New Supreme Court Justice Could Hit the Ground Running—or Not

By tradition, Donald Trump's nominee wouldn't vote on cases argued before their tenure began—but that's not an ironclad rule, court experts say.
14 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

OAG to Pay BuckleySandler $1.4M for Email Investigation

The Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General said Wednesday that it has agreed to pay BuckleySandler $1.4 million for its work investigating emails stored on OAG servers. The amount is nearly $400,000 less than the total outstanding fees billed by the firm.
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