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Weekly Briefs: Judge slashes $24M award for Unite the Right victims; judge accused of offering sex for early trial
Judge slashes $24M punitive award in Unite the Right trial U.S. District Judge Norman K. Moon of the Western District of Virginia has slashed an…
Ex-con resigns as law clerk at Michigan Supreme Court following criticism
A former inmate convicted for robbing a store and shooting at a police officer has resigned his new job as a law clerk for a…
Goodwin Procter plans layoffs of lawyers, paralegals and staff members
Goodwin Procter announced lawyer and staff layoffs in an internal memo Thursday that will affect 5% of its timekeepers and nonlawyer professionals. Law.com and…
‘Romeo and Juliet’ actors file child-abuse suit for 1968 nude scene filmed while they were teens
The actors who were teenagers when they portrayed Romeo and Juliet in the 1968 film Romeo and Juliet are relying on a California law to…
Chemerinsky: Expect another wave of significant rulings as the Supreme Court returns
Sometimes an especially momentous U.S. Supreme Court term is followed by a quieter year with fewer blockbuster decisions. But that is not what we should…
Sotomayor says she felt ‘sense of despair’ in previous SCOTUS term
Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in a video appearance Wednesday she felt a “sense of despair” because of the direction taken by the U.S. Supreme Court…
Lawyer who cited ‘professional curiosity’ in child-porn case won’t acknowledge wrongdoing, referee says
A suburban Tampa, Florida, lawyer has been disbarred after a referee found that he refused to acknowledge wrongdoing, despite pleading guilty in a child-pornography case.…
Prisoner who can’t show ‘factual innocence’ isn’t entitled to habeas relief, 5th Circuit says
A Mississippi inmate’s habeas appeal is doomed because of U.S. Supreme Court decisions remarking that federal courts have discretion to deny relief as “law and…
Unanimous jury requirement applies to older criminal cases, top state court rules
The Oregon Supreme Court recently ruled that the constitutional requirement for unanimous juries in serious criminal cases applies to older verdicts challenged in state post-conviction…
Why did Gorsuch join liberal justices who wanted to lift Trump-era Title 42 immigration policy?
Four justices dissented when the U.S. Supreme Court issued a Dec. 27 order that keeps in place a Trump-era immigration policy pending further litigation…