JURIST

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong also stated that he will appeal the order : The Sacklers are not bankrupt, and they should not be allowed to manipulate bankruptcy laws to evade justice and protect their blood money. Not long after the release of this statement, Ferguson tweeted that he has filed an appeal.

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ABA Journal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Updated: A Connecticut lawyer is facing criminal charges after a television viewer forwarded a video showing him slapping another person to News 12 Connecticut.…

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Attorneys general in 40 states Monday announced a $391.5 While the settlement ends the present lawsuit, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton initiated a new lawsuit against Google last month for allegedly collecting biometric data on millions of Texans without their informed consent. The post Google reaches $391.5M

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The Crime Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Despite the legalization of recreational marijuana in Connecticut in 2021, Chief State’s Attorney Patrick Griffin confirmed during a public hearing Wednesday that the state is still prosecuting people previously charged with possession, Jaden Edison reports for the Hartford Courant.

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ABA Journal

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

As both an attorney and a judge, Thomas Moukawsher has spent the majority of his career dealing in complex litigation. And the Connecticut Superior Court…

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JURIST

MAY 26, 2022

According to US Attorney Damian Williams for the Southern District of New York, Glencore bribed government officials to avoid audits and judges to avoid lawsuits. Williams said: “At bottom, Glencore paid bribes to make money – hundreds of millions of dollars.

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JURIST

MARCH 11, 2024

In states like Connecticut and Hawaii, information offices do have the authority to compel records to be released, but complaints may still ultimately end up in litigation. While some states like Arizona do provide an ombudsman’s aide who receives complaints, the aide lacks the authority to enforce agency compliance.

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Law 360

AUGUST 16, 2024

While Connecticut workers may rejoice over a major expansion of paid sick leave that will begin to roll out next year, businesses will need to spend some time and effort getting ready to implement the new law, attorneys told Law360.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A Connecticut court issued the verdict after four weeks of trial. Attorneys for the plaintiffs presented evidence showing web traffic and audience sales skyrocketed during Jones’ Infowar segments on the shooting. Jones referred to the proceeding as “all made up.”

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JURIST

AUGUST 25, 2024

Maryland’s gun law was enacted in the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut. Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown praised Friday’s ruling as a step forward for Maryland and gun safety. The entire process can take up to 30 days, with an additional week required to register the firearm.

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Law 360

APRIL 4, 2022

A Boston federal jury on Monday found that a Connecticut lawyer fraudulently dodged securities rules through a complex corporate scheme that earned him a windfall when he merged his money-losing yoga studio business with a startup biotech firm.

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Law 360

APRIL 21, 2022

A Boston federal judge on Thursday acknowledged making an "inexcusable mistake" in refusing to poll a jury that found a Connecticut lawyer liable for securities fraud and recused himself from hearing the attorney's bid for a new trial.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 25, 2023

ABC ] * Meta targeted for hooking kids through algorithms say state attorneys general seeking to increase their reelection profiles with a lawsuit designed to game the Google algorithm. Bloomberg Law News ] * Former Connecticut senate attorney heads to prison. [ * Mark Meadows has immunity? Well, well, well. [

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Law 360

JANUARY 3, 2025

Title insurer CATIC mishandled an audit of a law firm, sold services that didn't fix the alleged issues and ousted the firm's namesake attorney from the boards of two affiliated companies, a Connecticut real estate attorney has alleged in a 51-count complaint.

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The Crime Report

JULY 27, 2021

Josh Koskoff, an attorney with Koskoff, Koskoff and Bieder representing the Sandy Hook families, said the judge should dismiss the motion to strike with a one-sentence decision that simply reads that the matter was already decided. It didn’t even allege the gunman saw the ads, he said.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Investment adviser Silver Point Capital LP said it did not need to write special rules banning a now-deceased former BigLaw bankruptcy attorney from sharing information between its business units, accusing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of filing a "farfetched theory of noncompliance" in a Connecticut enforcement action.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Next month, Connecticut will swear in its first law student to become a prosecutor as part of an apprenticeship program, Lisa Backus reports for CT Insider. The program was developed by the state following recent legislation aimed at making the Office of the Chief State’s Attorney more competitive with the private sector.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 19, 2023

Norm Pattis, the attorney for far-right conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones, and a well-known defense attorney in the state of Connecticut, has failed in his attempt to postpone a six-month law license suspension due to his alleged release of unauthorized files including the Sandy Hook victims’ medical records in Jones’ defamation (..)

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JonathanTurley

MAY 19, 2021

Both of those concerns seem to have coalesced in the arrest of a Connecticut high school student accused of posting racist comments about a classmate. The Connecticut arrest comes as the U.S. The case could present an important court test for this country in resisting the criminalization of speech that we have seen in Europe.

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Vanguard

MAY 20, 2020

This reminds me of other things I had to dance around on a regional scale almost 20 years ago ,” she says, recalling when she was the deputy director and general counsel at the r egional p lanning a gency in Connecticut. . The post Attorney Weighs the Risks of Reopening During COVID-19 appeared first on Vanguard Law Magazine.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 6, 2022

COVID got in the way of visiting Hawaii, Alaska and Connecticut, but the Jovins promise to visit and record there as well. Subscribe to Attorney at Work. The post The Heyday of Grammar: You’re Not Hardcore Unless You Live Hardcore appeared first on Attorney at Work. ” Illustration ©iStockPhoto.com.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Let your harassers know that you find their actions offensive so there will be no talk you encouraged such behavior. .

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The Crime Report

JULY 12, 2021

The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) program announced by Attorney General Merrick Garland will allow agencies to apply for special grants to purchase the cameras, pay for their implementation or expand existing programs. This grant follows Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. The Justice Department will allocate $7.65

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Colorado courts have a dedicated page for "Efiling for Non-Attorneys" at: [link] There are links to forms and video/written tutorials listed. One can register as a self-represented party for the Connecticut Judicial Branch E-Services at: [link] Connecticut also provides "Court Services Centers" in all their Superior Courthouses.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Rubber bullets are fully capable of killing people under the right circumstances.

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JUNE 10, 2022

Many immigrants contact a lawyer only when they find themselves in a desperate situation.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 23, 2022

only Vermont and Connecticut have imposed caps on THC concentration. And while cannabis is legal for recreational use in 19 states and Washington, D.C., and for medical use in 37 states and D.C.,

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JURIST

JANUARY 24, 2023

Along with the DOJ, eight states’ Attorney Generals joined as plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Google. The eight states are California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Vermont. In 2020, the DOJ filed a similar civil antitrust complaint against Google.

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ABA Journal

JUNE 11, 2021

A Connecticut real estate lawyer is under police investigation following a fatal shooting Monday evening in the parking lot outside his law firm's office in…

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JURIST

JUNE 22, 2021

California is one of just seven US states and Washington, DC, (including Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York) that bans at least certain types of assault weapons. The Act banned ownership of AR-15 type rifles, among others. ” No ruling has been made regarding the prospective amici curiae.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Attorneys general from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut asked the Second Circuit to revive their challenge to an IRS rule prohibiting workarounds to the federal cap on state and local tax deductions, saying the rule was arbitrary and contrary to congressional intent.

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Law 360

JANUARY 7, 2025

Title insurer CATIC has fired back at a Connecticut attorney suing over his removal from the boards of two affiliated companies, accusing him of not paying bills, failing to prevent staffers from stealing money from his trust account, and breaching his duties to the company.

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Law 360

JANUARY 6, 2025

million attorney fee request for beating a Connecticut real estate investment firm's breach of contract suit, rejecting the losing side's call for offsets covering fees that Verizon said were never incurred. Verizon's real estate unit asked a Delaware vice chancellor to approve a $1.15

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

million in attorney fees in a life insurance class action, saying they spent millions pressing similar New York and Pennsylvania claims being swept into an allegedly undervalued $147.5 million global settlement in Connecticut. Susman Godfrey LLP lawyers have objected to three firms' requests for $36.9

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Law 360

OCTOBER 1, 2024

A former Connecticut utility CEO has dropped some attorney fee claims against his onetime employer following a jury conviction for stealing public funds, telling a federal judge on Tuesday to focus on a bid for fees should prosecutors choose to litigate a second indictment.

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Law 360

APRIL 17, 2024

million Connecticut ERISA settlement, a federal court has awarded more than $1 million in fees to attorneys who represented a class of nearly 40,000 Xerox workers, determining a one-quarter fee amount was more appropriate than the requested one-third cut. After a $4.1

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The Second Circuit issued a mammoth 140-page decision Friday upholding punishments including a $748,000 restitution order for three former executives convicted of stealing from a Connecticut utility cooperative, but the court threw out the utility's bid for a $9.6 million reimbursement for fronting the defendants' attorney fees.

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