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National Law Journal

Lawyers Grow Impatient in Climate-Change Scientist's Libel Fight

A year and a half after the D.C. Court of Appeals heard arguments in prominent climate scientist Michael Mann's defamation suit against his critics, the court has yet to issue a ruling. The lawyers, growing impatient, have asked the trial and appeals judges in the case to take action.
15 minute read

National Law Journal

Food Court: Justices Dish on Supreme Court's Culinary Traditions

Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor regaled an audience with stories about the food traditions of the Supreme Court—and their own culinary likes and dislikes.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

City Agency Sets Hearing on 6 Judicial Nominations

The Mayor's Advisory Committee on the Judiciary will hold a hearing Tuesday on two nominees for the New York City Criminal Court and four for interim appointments to Civil Court.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Celebration of Preska

More than 200 people attended a privately sponsored celebration of outgoing Southern District Chief Judge Loretta Preska at Fordham University School of Law on Tuesday.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Notice of Website Information

In his Evidence column, Michael J. Hutter writes: While a review of cases over the past 20 years reveals that New York courts, following the lead of the federal courts, are taking judicial notice of facts from websites, the cases do not set forth any analytical framework for determining when judicial notice is or is not appropriate. That absence s troubling as there is now uncertainty as to when a New York court will take judicial notice of a website-mentioned fact, and the distinct possibility of "facts" being noticed when they should not be.
12 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Centre County DA's Open Records Process Questioned by Court

A Right-to-Know Law denial of records from the Centre County District Attorney's Office should have been appealed in the Centre County Court of Common Pleas rather than the Commonwealth Court, the latter has ruled, in a decision that raised a question about how the District Attorney's Office handles the open records appeals process.
8 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Supreme Court Nixes $2.7 Million Auto Accident Award

Citing numerous errors, the New Jersey Supreme Court on June 1 overturned a $2.7 million damages award issued to a Hackensack woman whose car rear-ended a garbage truck.
8 minute read

Legaltech News

5 Cases that Address the E-Discovery FRCP Amendments from Spring 2016

Six months after the new rules went into effect, courts are beginning to discern case law surrounding proportionality and spoliation sanctions.
19 minute read

National Law Journal

Morning Wrap: DOJ Resists Judge's Ethics Sanctions | Trump U.'s 'Playbook'

The U.S. Justice Department is mounting a challenge to a Texas judge's attorney-ethics sanctions. A federal appeals court rules for the feds in a Fourth Amendment case over cell-phone location data. And a federal judge in California releases Trump University docs that had been kept secret. This is a roundup from ALM and other publications.
5 minute read

Law.com

Justice Dept. Seeks Broader Authority to Prosecute Supreme Court Disruptions

Federal prosecutors want wider latitude to bring criminal charges against individuals who disrupt arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court. The U.S. attorney's office in Washington filed papers in the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday arguing that a trial judge was wrong to block them from charging defendants with making a 'harangue' or 'oration' at the high court.
7 minute read

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