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National Law Journal

INADMISSIBLE: ABA Committee Gives Garland Top Rating

An American Bar Association committee on Tuesday ranked U.S. Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland as "well qualified" for the high court — its highest rating for judicial nominees.
4 minute read

Litigation Daily

Monday Mashup: The (Faint) Silver Lining in Immigration Reform; The Frack Master Gets Busted; A Judge Loses It In Court

Putting the Supreme Court's immigration reform decision in context; plus the SEC goes after the "Frack Master" and his GC--a former Skadden lawyer. Also, the Kansas AG has his hands full and a Georgia judge goes way over the line.
23 minute read

Daily Report Online

The Daily Report's 2016 Professional Excellence Event

Justice David Nahmias was given the Luminary award at the Daily Report's 2016 Professional Excellence & On the Rise event.
1 minute read

National Law Journal

Supreme Court Lawyers Parlay New Decisions to Big Regulatory Battles

Two U.S. Supreme Court veterans moved swiftly this week to apply a pair of June 20 high court rulings to pending cases in federal appeals courts. Lawyers for Microsoft Corp. and the attorneys for the mortgage lender PHH Corp. said they found supporting positions in the high court rulings.
13 minute read

Texas Lawyer

SCOTUS Ruling Trains Eyes on Federal Judge in Brownsville, TX

As a result of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling issued today in an immigration case, many more eyes will be trained on U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen who will preside at trial. At that trial, which the high court ruled may now take place, Texas and 25 other states will be pitted against the Obama administration's proposed immigration reforms. A portrait below, scheduled for print publication in the July issue of Texas Lawyer, shows Hanen's performance last month as he wrestled from the bench with arguments that he had overstepped his authority by issuing sanctions requiring ethics training for U.S. Department of Justice lawyers. At the hearing, Hanen reversed his own sanctions order, but his expressions from the bench before doing so, may shed light on how he will preside at the scheduled trial.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Retool Mandatory Sentences

In remarks to the New York Criminal Bar Association, Eastern District Judge Raymond Dearie said: Let's stop tinkering with this system of ours and collectively demand in the name of decency meaningful change, intelligent change. We need to get out and get under so to speak and rethink our practices, re-test the theories of the ancient past and, above all, jettison the madness of mass incarceration and the almost singular reliance on law enforcement as the principal means to address social ills that are beyond the reach of even the most dedicated law enforcement officials who serve us with justifiable pride and commitment.
22 minute read

National Law Journal

For-Profit College Accreditor, Facing Crisis, Fights to Retain Recognition

An independent federal advisory panel on Thursday recommended the U.S. Education Department cut ties with the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, a move that would jeopardize future federal aid to 243 institutions and hundreds of thousands of students.
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Senate Tenures Escandon and Portelli, Approves Lougy Judgeship

A pair of judges who have been the subject of controversy in the Legislature and beyond were approved for tenure by the New Jersey Senate. Also garnering Senate approval was Acting Attorney General Robert Lougy, who now will join the Superior Court bench.
10 minute read

Daily Report Online

Circuit Revives Suit by Family of Prisoner Murdered by Cellmate

A unanimous Eleventh Circuit panel ruled that prison officials who knew the cellmate was mentally ill and violent are not immune from action.
5 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

Waiting for a New Justice, and a New Chance to Prevail

The California teachers who lost their challenge in the union-fees case this term hope to snatch victory from a 4-4 defeat by seeking a rehearing when a new justice is confirmed. Will the United States do the same in the immigration case?
21 minute read

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