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National Law Journal

INADMISSIBLE: On Net Neutrality, Scalia was prescient

Eleven years ago this month, a dissenting Justice Antonin Scalia argued that the Federal Communications Commission should regulate cable broadband providers as telecommunications services, not information services. The U.S. Supreme Court disagreed. The late justice's vindication arrived June 14 in a major net neutrality ruling.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Attorney Access, Busy Dockets Top Tasks for DC Superior's New Chief

When District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Robert Morin takes over as chief judge this fall, he'll face a long wish list from the legal community.
14 minute read

Daily Report Online

Orlando Shooting Casts Shadow on 11th Circuit 'Docs v. Glocks' Case

Hoping to reverse their losing streak, a coalition of doctors and gun safety advocates head back to the appeals court Tuesday.
13 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

NJ Court OKs Russia as Forum for Real Estate Dispute

A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that a clause in a contract that mandates that any dispute by resolved by Russians courts is enforceable, even though there is little likelihood that one of the parties will return to Russia to resolve the dispute.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Capitol Report

Following is a listing of executive and legislative activity for the week of June 13. Members of the General Assembly were scheduled to return to session the week of June 20.
7 minute read

Daily Report Online

Alabama Justice Files Lawsuit Over Speech Restrictions

A bench ally of suspended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit challenging what he called the state's unconstitutional restrictions on judges' speech.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Q&A: Justice Arthur Diamond

In the last five years, about 13 percent of the state's guardianship petitions under Article 81 of the Mental Hygiene Law—a total of 1,001 requests on behalf of "incapacitated persons"—have come from Nassau County. Justice Arthur Diamond, named earlier this year to supervise the Supreme Court part tasked with hearing such petitions, worries that he and his colleagues are confronting a crisis: the inability to pay guardians for everybody who requires one.
20 minute read

New York Law Journal

Erie County Town Justice Resigns Post

A town court justice in Erie County who was involved in a drinking-related auto accident in 2014 has resigned under a stipulation with the state Commission on Judicial Conduct, the panel announced Thursday.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Kirschner Appointed to NYC Civil Court

David J. Kirschner, who was principal law clerk to Bronx Supreme Court Justice Richard Lee Price and a former prosecutor, will serve as an interim Civil Court judge and sit in Criminal Court, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Trump's Attack on Judge Curiel Threatens Nation's Rule of Law

Miami attorney Charles Baumberger, president of the American Board of Trial Advocates, defends the ideal of an independent judiciary and calls out presidential candidate Donald Trump for attacking a federal judge in one of his cases.
6 minute read

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