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Lawyers Battle Over Special Prosecutor Role in Gambling Cases

A former state attorney general claims an Atlanta lawyer who works as a special assistant district attorney leverages the threat of criminal prosecution against vulnerable business owners to lay claim to their assets.
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Exxon Settles Pollution Case With Feds by Upgrading 8 Plants

Exxon Mobil settled air pollution violations with the Trump administration by paying a $2.5 million civil penalty and promising to spend $300 million…
7 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Litigators Jostle for Lead Roles in Harvey Dam Flooding Suits

Lawyers are poised to pack a Texas courtroom as they attempt to persuade a federal judge to pick them to lead litigation filed by individuals whose property was flooded from Houston reservoirs during Hurricane Harvey.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Broward Beach Battle Advances as Judge Draws Line in the Sand

Hillsboro Beach claims rock structures in the sand in Deerfield Beach are causing critical erosion.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Judge OKs Antitrust Claims Against Opioid Treatment Maker

A federal judge in Pennsylvania is allowing a consolidated litigation to advance against a pharmaceutical company that allegedly helped the maker of Suboxone delay generic versions of the opioid addiction treatment medication from entering the market.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

SCOTUS Asked to Decide Whether Private Burial Grounds Can Be Opened to Public

A Pennsylvania woman whose home was declared by her township to be situated on an ancestral burial ground has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling forcing her to open up her property to the public.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Judge Orders Texas Housing Agency to Repair Harvey Damage

A judge has blocked Houston's public housing authority from evicting residents of a senior-living apartment complex that was damaged by heavy rains…
2 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Dignity for Incarcerated Women Act Benefits Us All

The “Dignity for Incarcerated Women Act of 2017” (Dignity Act), which improves the treatment of federal prisoners who are primary caretaker parents,…
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

FEMA Publishes Guidance for Handling Flood Losses

In September, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced Hurricane Harvey and Irma claim handling process for buildings insured under the Standard Flood Insurance Policy (SFIP), specifically recognizing that catastrophic flooding from those storms demands “fast and accurate payments to all National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) policyholders.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Amy Berman Jackson, Judge Assigned to Manafort Case, No Stranger to Spotlight

Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has been assigned to oversee the special counsel's case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
7 minute read

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