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Texas Lawyer

Sylvester Turner, Houston's Mayor, Was First a Lawyer (and Harvard Law Alum)

"He's a litigator by nature, and a fighter," a former law partner of Sylvester Turner, the Houston mayor, once recalled. Turner, a Harvard Law School graduate who previously worked at then-Fulbright & Jaworski, before co-founding his own firm, is the public face now of Houston's response to Hurricane Harvey. His resiliency is being tested in ways his law partner couldn't have envisioned. Catastrophic flooding from the storm has crippled courts and shuttered law firms. Here are highlights from Turner's ties to the law.
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Justices Correctly Restored Standard in Relocation Cases

Recognizing a "special justification," the New Jersey Supreme Court abandoned the Baures standard for deciding contested relocation disputes and acknowledged such "special justification" is found "where experience teaches that a rule of law has not achieved its intended result."
4 minute read

Litigation Daily

Dirty Fight, Clean Win—How Enviro Experts at Beveridge and Diamond Beat Arnold and Porter in Fight Over LA's 'Biosolids'

A decade-long legal fight between the City of Los Angeles and neighboring Kern County over, ahem, biosolids came to a close last week. It was a critical test case over what to do with what gets flushed down the toilet.
18 minute read

New York Law Journal

Murray v. City of N.Y.

Individual Conditions Lead to FLSA Pay Suit's Partial Dismissal; Collective Action Not Certified
2 minute read

Delaware Law Weekly

Officer's Family Challenges Ex-Governors' Immunity Claims in Prison Takeover Suit

Attorneys representing the family of a slain correction officer on Monday attacked arguments that former Govs. Jack Markell and Ruth Ann Minner are entitled to immunity in a wrongful death case stemming from the Feb. 1 takeover of James T. Vaughn Correctional Center, arguing their failure to address severe staffing and training shortages at the prison created the conditions for the deadly uprising to occur.
8 minute read

The Recorder

Airline Service Providers Association v. Los Angeles World Airports

9th Cir.; 15-55571 The court of appeals affirmed in part and vacated in part a district court judgment. The court held that the City of Los Angeles was…
3 minute read

The Recorder

California Cannabis Coalition v. City of Upland

Cal.Sup.Ct.; S234148 The California Supreme Court affirmed a court of appeal decision. The court held that Cal. Const. art. XIII C, §2, which limits…
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

CAPITOL REPORT

A report on recent action in Trenton of interest to NJSBA members
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

NJ Appeals Court Opens Avenue to Police Dashcam Videos

A divided Appellate Division panel has ruled that the public can access videos recorded by police dashboard cameras.
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Bridgegate Closures Not a Crime, Ex-Christie Aides Argue in Bid to Overturn Convictions

The politically motivated George Washington Bridge access lane closures at the center of the Bridgegate scandal were not a crime, co-defendants William Baroni Jr. and Bridget Kelly have asserted in appeals of their criminal convictions.
14 minute read

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