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New York Deploys Help to Texas

Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered NY Air National Guard personnel and aircraft to help Texas and Louisiana deal with epic flooding after Hurricane Harvey. NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio also authorized 120 emergency personnel to help out in the rescue and recovery efforts.
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National Law Journal

Big Law Takes On the Trans Military Ban

Two lawsuits were filed Monday against President Donald Trump's ban on transgender people serving in the military, with help from firms like Kirkland & Ellis and Covington & Burling.
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New York Law Journal

USA v. American International Group, Inc.

FCA Qui Tam Suit Alleging Firm's 'Infiltration' By Mafia Dismissed as Frivolous, Baseless
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The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Justices' Stalemate Means New Chance for Death-Row Inmate

Just over a year after the U.S. Supreme Court vacated Terrance Williams' death sentence based on a finding that former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille should have recused from the case, a four-justice state Supreme Court has deadlocked on remand, letting stand a lower court's ruling entitling Williams to a new penalty phase of his trial.
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National Law Journal

Paul Manafort's Lawyer Leaves His Firm Two Weeks After Taking Case

Kevin Downing, a tax partner at Miller & Chevalier in Washington, D.C., left the firm Thursday. He will continue to advise President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort, who reportedly received subpoenas Friday from a federal grand jury probing a public relations firm that did work for Ukraine.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Presidential Power and Antitrust Politics: Part Two

Last month we discussed the role of the presidency in formulating ­antitrust policy, pointing out the fallacy of the view that the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice has historically been (or should be) completely independent of the White House. We posited that history shows that the Antitrust Division's ­enforcement decisions have been (and should be) a product of informed presidential policy and that past presidents have ­attempted to apply the Sherman Act in a way that balances the panoply of ­challenges, both foreign and domestic, that every president elected by the people ­invariably faces.
20 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Blake v. State Civil Service Commission, PICS Case No. 17-1269 (Pa. July 25, 2017) Donohue, J. (21 pages).

Petitioner, a former cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point who did not graduate from the school or ever obligate himself to perform any subsequent military service, did not qualify as a "soldier" within the meaning of the state's Veterans' Preference Act. The lower court erred in granting petitioner veterans' preference.
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National Law Journal

Judge OKs Government's Warrant for Info on Inauguration Protests, With A Catch

D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert E. Morin ruled from the bench Thursday that the government can proceed with its search warrant, but must provide reports to the court on how it will search the data.
10 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Sens: Pardon Should Trigger Automatic Record Expungement

Governor-approved clemency should trigger simultaneous criminal record expungement, two state senators said in a recent memorandum.
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Capitol Report

Following is a listing of executive and legislative action from the week of Aug. 21. At press time, the Pennsylvania Senate stood in recess subject to the call of President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati, and the state House of Representatives stood in recess subject to the call of Speaker Mike Turzai.
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