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New Jersey Law Journal

Lawyer Claims Pervasive Civil Rights Violations Under Ex-Linden Judge

Violations of defendants' right to counsel and due process were "pervasive" in Linden's municipal court under its former judge, Louis DiLeo, a lawyer representing the plaintiffs in a federal civil rights suit has alleged.
11 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Judge Sets Guidelines for Pre-retirement Alimony Modification

A New Jersey judge has attempted to provide some guidance to divorced spouses who are seeking to prospectively have their alimony obligations reduced or eliminated pending their retirement.
9 minute read

Daily Business Review

Palm Beach Judgeship Going to Election, Not Appointment

The Florida Supreme Court rejects the governor's legal logic and orders an electrion for a Palm Beach County Court opening.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

CJD: Ex-Traffic Court MDJ Violated Disciplinary Rules

More than three years after retired Senior Magisterial District Judge Kenneth Miller pleaded guilty to mail fraud for his involvement in the Philadelphia Traffic Court ticket-fixing scandal, the Court of Judicial Discipline has determined that his conduct brought the judiciary into disrepute.
5 minute read

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

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