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New Jersey Law Journal

Martinotti Confimed as Federal District Judge

Brian Martinotti has been confirmed to serve as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Martinotti was confirmed on a 92-5 vote on July 6. He has served as a Bergen County Superior Court judge since 2002, and replaces U.S. District Judge Stanley Chesler, of Newark, who took senior status last year.
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Daily Report Online

Georgia Justices Toss $10M Asbestos Verdict

An expert witness offered irrelevant and confusing testimony, the unanimous court ruled Tuesday.
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The Recorder

Hearing Set on Koh's Nomination to Court of Appeals

The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to hold a hearing next week on U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh's nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 15-193

A judge may write to the director of a federally funded medical facility expressing appreciation for care provided to the judge's deceased parent, and may use judicial stationery marked "personal and unofficial" for this purpose. The judge may not send copies to federal legislators.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 15-151

A village justice may continue as a client of a salesperson whose spouse is the village prosecutor. Unless the relationship is substantially more than an ordinary salesperson-customer relationship, the judge may preside over cases where the salesperson's spouse appears as village prosecutor without disclosure or disqualification, provided the judge can remain fair and impartial.
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New Jersey Law Journal

Former Bergrin Client Fails in Ineffective Assistance Claim

A client of former federal prosecutor and defense lawyer Paul Bergrin, who himself is now serving life in prison, cannot use Bergrin's alleged-but-unproven misconduct in the client's trial to obtain relief for ineffective assistance of counsel, a New Jersey appeals court has ruled.
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New York Law Journal

New York County Dems to Screen Candidates

The heads of numerous bar associations, community organizations and law schools have been invited to nominate members of an Independent Screening Panel to report on candidates for the Democratic nominations for Supreme Court in the First Judicial District.
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Daily Business Review

Florida Tightens Rules for Judicial Moonlighting

Senior judges may not serve as arbitrators, mediators or voluntary trial judges in the circuit where they preside, the Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
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Daily Business Review

New Court Launched to Handle Human Trafficking Cases

Miami-Dade Circuit Court has created the first juvenile court in the country dedicated to human trafficking victims.
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National Law Journal

Indictment Alleges Murder-For-Hire Plot Against Ohio Federal Judge

A federal judge in Ohio was the intended target of a murder-for-hire plot, according to an indictment returned by a federal grand jury on Wednesday.
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