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New Jersey Law Journal

Federal Government Weighs In on Transgender Rights Under ADA

The U.S. Department of Justice has entered the fray in a New Jersey transgender rights suit in hopes of averting a constitutional challenge over protections granted under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Daily Report Online

Georgia Chief Justice Misses Work—Because of Jury Duty

Instead of driving downtown to his chambers at the high court, the justice spent the day closer to home at the Cobb County Courthouse in Marietta. It's the new building next door to the one where he served as a Cobb County Superior Court judge before moving up to the Supreme Court.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Lazar v. Kroncke

9th Cir.; 15-15078 The court of appeals affirmed a judgment. The court held that the application of Arizona’s 2005 “revocation-on-divorce”…
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Daily Report Online

Federal Bench Nominee William Ray Hailed for Fairness, 'Farm-Boy Work Ethic'

While any federal judge nominee may expect a rough time in today's hyperpartisan atmosphere, Georgia Court of Appeals Judge William "Billy" Ray II—tapped last week by President Donald Trump for the U.S. District Court for Georgia's Northern District—will come to the Senate with a reputation for working across the aisle.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Macon Federal Court Nominee is Third-Generation Judge, Army Vet

President Donald Trump's pick for an opening on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia is a bow-tie wearing, college football-officiating, turkey-hunting champion, as well as an Army veteran and third-generation judge.
7 minute read

The Recorder

Napa Judge, Accused of Stealing Social Club's Card Holders, Will Resign

A Napa County judge will resign at the end of the year under terms of an agreement reached with state disciplinarians who accused him of stealing, and later returning, two pricey business-card holders from a San Francisco social club. The judge, Michael Williams, was already planning to retire, and the agreement with the commission "allowed him to bring closure to the event," said the judge's attorney.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

CAPITOL REPORT

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

Daily Business Review

Ruling Opens Door for Missing Fisherman's Parents to Sue

A federal judge has opened the door for the family of a Florida teenager to sue his friend's mother after the boys never returned from a fishing trip off Florida's Atlantic coast.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Anti-Death Penalty Prosecutor Pulled Over in Traffic Stop

There was nothing unusual about a June 19 traffic stop in Orlando, except the driver happened to be Florida's first African-American state attorney who also happens to be in a legal fight with the governor over the death penalty.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Federal Ins. Co. v. Metropolitan Transportation Auth.

Insurer Denied Injunction Barring MTA, NYCTA From Enforcing Performance Bond
2 minute read

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