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Corporate Counsel

FDA Seeks to Toss Lawsuit From Company Lawyer Seeking Anonymity in Facility-Inspection Report

The attorney argues that being linked to the report, which stems from 20 FDA site visits in the spring of 2022, could cause reputational harm and derail the attorney's career.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

A New Attorney-Client Privilege Ruling Adds Roadblock to Public Records

"The problem, as I see it, is not the standard, but the court's loose application of it to the record on appeal, which renders the narrow-construction mandate essentially tokenistic," Justice John Phillip Devine wrote in the dissent.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Cameras in Court: Now More Than Ever

We have been frequent and longstanding supporters of cameras in all courts. We live in a visual world, where everything from congressional hearings…
2 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Haynes and Boone Gets Court Order, DPS to Release Uvalde Shooting Records

Judge Daniella DeSeta Lyttle's order requires the Texas Department of Public Safety to produce by Aug. 31 a proposed log of redactions it wants to make to the public records.
4 minute read

Law.com

'These Emails Were Sent in Error': Amazon Senior Counsel Issues Apology Following Trademark Lawyer's Defamation Suit Over 'Blacklist'

"Amazon has no reason to believe that you have engaged in any professional misconduct before the USPTO, nor do your clients need to change counsel to proceed with ABR enrollment," said an apology letter to trademark attorney, Nazly Aileen Bayramoglu, from Benjamin U. Okeke, Amazon's senior corporate counsel.
3 minute read

Law.com

In Records Fight Over Judges' Indictment, ICE Ordered to Explain Search of Ex-Administrator's Phone

The plaintiffs, the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and American Oversight, are seeking text and email communications from seven senior ICE officials stemming from an underlying criminal investigation of Massachusetts Judges Shelley M. Richmond Joseph and court officer Wesley MacGregor.
6 minute read

Law.com

Iowa High Court: Unreasonably Delayed Response Can Equal 'Refusal' Under State's Open Records Act

"The Governor's Office wanted a rule that it and its agencies can ignore public records requests without any consequences. Instead, the Iowa Supreme Court has ruled that nobody is above the law," said attorney for the plaintiffs, Thomas Story of the ACLU of Iowa, via a press release.
6 minute read

Law.com

South Dakota Supreme Court Denies Banking Mogul's Request to Redact Warrants Before Public Release

According to Chief Justice Steven R. Jensen, this was the second appeal T. Denny Sanford, a South Dakota billionaire banker and philanthropist, challenged as he was being investigated for his alleged possession of child pornography.
7 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Appellate Court: Yale Police Not Required to Turn Over Recordings of 'Uncorroborated Allegations of a Crime'

The Connecticut Appellate Court upheld an administrative appeal concluding that the Yale University Police Department properly denied a student's request to access certain body camera recordings created when officers were responding to "an uncorroborated allegation of a crime."
5 minute read

Law.com

Court Reverses Sanctions, Contempt Order Against Attorney, Clients Over Claims Made in Appellate Brief

Attorney allegedly called out the plaintiff's "unconscionable use of the courts to seek political retribution" in appellate brief.
3 minute read

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