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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

Daily Business Review

Judge Ribas Has Twin Passions: Legal and Running

Broward Circuit Judge Alberto Ribas Jr. is a veteran prosecutor, triathlete and CrossFit games participant.
10 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Common Pleas Courts Anticipate Boost From Appointments

When Gov. Tom Wolf announced his nominees for 16 interim appointments to Pennsylvania's courts of common pleas, judges around the state let out a sigh of relief. For shorthanded courts, open seats on the bench have meant heavier workloads, scheduling concerns and, in some cases, delays in hearing certain types of cases, judges said.
8 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Leading GCs Urge Senate Action on Garland Nomination

The general counsel of 44 major U.S. companies are urging the U.S. Senate to consider Merrick Garland's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

As Judicial Ethics Agency Huddles in Secret, Georgia Bar Lobbyists Say They Will Challenge Its Lack of Transparency

Leaders of the State Bar of Georgia's lobbying team said Thursday that next year they will push state legislators to raise the curtain on parts of meetings of the state's judicial ethics watchdog agency, the Judicial Qualifications Commission.
6 minute read

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