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Ex-Lead Atty On Eric Adams' Case Joins Hueston Hennigan
One of the former government lawyers who defied a top U.S. Department of Justice official's orders to drop the corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams for political reasons has joined Hueston Hennigan LLP as a New York partner, the firm announced Monday.
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Immunity Shields Mich. AG From Flint Water Prosecution Suit
A Michigan federal judge has dismissed a wrongful prosecution lawsuit brought by a former aide to ex-Gov. Rick Snyder against the Michigan attorney general and Wayne County prosecutors, ruling that immunity shields the prosecutors from liability over their handling of charges against officials in the aftermath of the Flint water crisis.
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Schumer Pledges To Fight GOP's Limits On Court Power
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has vowed to challenge a provision in House Republicans' budget reconciliation package that would curtail courts' ability to issue contempt citations.
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High Court To Review Soldier's Injury Claims Against Fluor
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a veteran's lawsuit against defense contractor Fluor Corp. over injuries sustained in a 2016 suicide bombing in Afghanistan, after a divided Fourth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of the former Army specialist's claims.
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High Court Skips AR-15 Ban Constitutionality For Now
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to weigh in on the debate over whether AR-15s and other semiautomatic rifles are protected under the Second Amendment or potentially subject to state bans because of their military-like capabilities.
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Justices To Probe GEO's Immunity Claim In Forced Labor Suit
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up GEO Group Inc.'s bid for review of a Tenth Circuit decision dismissing the private prison company's immediate appeal of an adverse immunity determination in a forced labor class action.
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Trump Blames Federalist Society For Trade Court Loss
President Donald Trump blamed his recent, short-lived loss in the U.S. Court of International Trade both on judges he accused of hating him as well as on the Federalist Society — the conservative legal group that helped him with judicial selection during his first term — in a Truth Social post highlighting tensions within the conservative legal and political movements.
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AI Video Pushes Boundaries Of Victim Impact Statements
At the beginning of May, an Arizona state court judge permitted an artificial intelligence-generated victim impact statement of a deceased victim at a sentencing hearing, leaving some attorneys concerned about how admitting these types of videos might affect sentencing in other cases.
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More Californians Face Legal Issues, But Get Less Help
The gap between the need for civil legal services for Californians and the help that is actually available has grown over the past five years, as has the income level of those affected by that gap, according to a new study from the State Bar of California.
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Trump Taps Paul Ingrassia To Lead Special Counsel's Office
President Donald Trump has nominated Paul Ingrassia, a lawyer and former right-wing writer, to lead the Office of Special Counsel after firing the previous one.
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Prosecutors Bet On Diddy's Ex-Workers To Build RICO Case
Witnesses who worked for Sean "Diddy" Combs and saw his alleged abuses are a crucial component of federal prosecutors' racketeering case against the music icon, legal experts told Law360, as testimony from another anguished former worker came into the high-profile trial on Friday.Â
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Texas Review Panel Trims Ethics Claims Against Judge
A review panel this week nixed all but one charge of misconduct by a Texas trial court judge and said the judge should receive a private reprimand rather than the public admonition ordered by the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct in December.
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ABA Leader Says Silence 'Not An Alternative' On Trump EOs
While American Bar Association President Bill Bay says he's seen no shortage of criticism and even threats for publicly opposing the Trump administration's executive orders targeting law firms, he told attendees at an ABA ethics conference that being silent was not a viable alternative.
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Trump Admin To Defend Biden's For-Profit College Loan Rule
The Trump administration will defend parts of a Biden-era U.S. Department of Education rule allowing students to have their federal loans forgiven over their college's misconduct, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to resume briefing in a case that will pit the administration against the for-profit college industry.
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Ex-NJ Councilman Cops To Taking Bribe From Town Atty
A former member of a New Jersey borough council pled guilty to pocketing a $7,000 bribe to help grease the wheels for an attorney's reappointment as municipal counsel, Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability announced Friday.
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New Ga. State Judges Leader Says Bench Is Not About Power
Law360 Pulse caught up with the new president of the Georgia Council of State Court Judges, Chief Judge Gregory V. Sapp of Chatham County State Court.
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Jenner & Block Fights DOJ Motion Over Exec Order
Jenner & Block LLP on Friday fought a bid from the U.S. Department of Justice to carve out part of a March executive order targeting the firm after the bulk of the order was tossed last week, in a dispute that could relate to future actions against the firm.
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Meet The Mass. Judge In Harvard's Legal Battles With Trump
The Massachusetts federal judge who blocked the Trump administration's effort to stop Harvard University from enrolling foreign students is considered a fair and hard-working jurist who has experience as both a prosecutor and defense attorney and a track record of overseeing high-profile cases like one involving Harvard's use of race in admissions.
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Retired NJ Judge, Now At Porzio Bromberg, Seeks To Mentor
Mary Gibbons Whipple is joining Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC and aiming to pass on lessons learned from 15 years as a state judge in New Jersey, including 10 years in the Appellate Division, to the firm’s younger attorneys.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry ended May with another action-packed week as BigLaw firms expanded practices and attorneys took on new roles. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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High Court Allows Feds To Revoke Immigrant Parole For Now
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Trump administration can revoke Biden-era temporary removal protections and work authorizations for more than half a million immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, even as the sweeping policy change is being challenged in federal court.
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Fla. AG Says Letter To Cops Doesn't Rise To Contempt
Florida's attorney general told a federal judge on Thursday that a letter he sent to law enforcement agencies saying he could not force them to comply with a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a state law criminalizing the entry of unauthorized immigrants did not rise to the level of civil contempt.
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Harvard Taps Paul Weiss High Court Litigator For Board
Kannon Shanmugam, a Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP partner and veteran U.S. Supreme Court litigator, has been selected to join the Harvard Corp. governing board, according to an announcement made Thursday.
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Ex-Atty's Death In Colo. Jail Sparks Suit Over Medical Neglect
The family of a disbarred attorney imprisoned for felony theft sued three members of the medical staff at the prison where he died, alleging in Colorado federal court Wednesday their neglect resulted in Steven Bachar dying from cardiac arrest after he asked for days for proper medical attention.
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Mass. Justices Revive Atty's Suit Against 'Spiteful' Colleagues
Massachusetts' highest court Thursday revived part of a lawsuit brought by a former appellate court staff attorney who said he was intentionally undermined by supervisors, finding that he had made a reasonable showing that two of the three original defendants had demonstrated actual malice toward him.