JonathanTurley

AUGUST 8, 2023

The college then prolonged the litigation, virtually forcing the family into insolvency. Oberlin President Carmen Twillie Ambar and the Board needlessly spent millions in litigation costs above the damages rather than admit that the college was wrong in the targeting of this grocery. A judge later reduced the award to $25 million.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In an opinion by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the court acknowledged concerns by the hotel, which lost in the lower court and had asked the justices to weigh in, “about litigants manipulating the jurisdiction of this Court.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 28, 2023

Share Lawyers for a self-appointed civil rights “tester” have asked the Supreme Court to dismiss her case as moot – that is, no longer a live controversy. In a 10-page filing earlier this week , lawyer Kelsi Brown Corkran of the Georgetown University Law Center asked the justices to dismiss Laufer’s case as moot.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. and non-U.S. Here are the additions to the U.S. 24, 2016).

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Laufer told the justices that she had voluntarily dismissed her case in the district court after Tristan Gillespie, an attorney who has represented her in other ADA cases, was disciplined by a federal court in Maryland. The case has drawn widespread interest.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Clients need to trust their lawyers. Lawyers need to trust their clients. About InfoTrack: InfoTrack is a legal software company with integration products that streamline the litigation process. We serve tens of thousands of legal professionals across California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, New York, and Texas.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 12, 2021

One of the briefs written in support of the district in the recent litigation was from constitutional scholars, including my colleague Alan B. He has not only previously written on the blog, but he is one of the most respected legal figures in the country with extensive litigation and public interest experience.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In the course of the litigation, Abdelhady asked the court to ignore her election (and receipt) of workers’ compensation benefits and find that the WCA does not apply after all. Abdelhady had a drawn out litigation under WCA to force payments from the university. Id. ¶ 174. I d. ¶ 154.

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MAY 5, 2021

At least one lawyer is in this pantheon of top-paid publishers on Substack – Glenn Greenwald , the former litigator turned Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author of four New York Times bestselling books on politics and law, including No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Another lawyer-turned-journalist is U.K.-based

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JANUARY 9, 2025

His advice to lawyers is as follows: Use your law license to become part of the solution. Volunteer your time, whether its on the civil side or on the criminal side, to get into the courtroom and make sure that justice prevails in this litigation.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And more broadly, Acheson reminds the justices, its hotel and many others may not have their own lawyers and may not have been aware of the reservation rule. “Any generalized injury could be transformed into a particularized injury” that would be enough for standing as long as the plaintiff was exposed to the harm on the website.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Maryland v. Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Maryland v. Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

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The Crime Report

MAY 24, 2023

asked Mark Bederow, a criminal defense lawyer and former Manhattan prosecutor. It would be premature to come to conclusions about the allegations a grand juror has made until those allegations are fully investigated or litigated,” the spokesperson said. Now, my client brings up a very valid point: How do you rob a car dealership?”

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2024

In January 2023, he said, he had received for the first time files from the state indicating that prosecutors knew, but had not disclosed to Glossip or his lawyers, that Sneed had been prescribed lithium for bipolar disorder after his arrest. Glossip asked an Oklahoma court to set aside his conviction and sentence last year.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Swalwell is a lawyer with a degree from the University of Maryland Law School. It would be malpractice for a lawyer to tell a client, as suggested by Swalwell, that they do not control the major decisions in their own cases. This right of consent is ongoing and can be exercised at any point in the litigation.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

After a group of federal judges had recommended that an attorney who had represented her in other ADA cases be suspended from practicing law in Maryland because of repeated ethics violations, she explained, she had voluntarily dismissed her case in the district court and cannot refile it. He argued that she does not.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As a result, Phillips was thrown back into an endless grind of litigation as activists targeted his bakery for additional challenges by demanding cakes with other messages that Phillips found offensive. In 2018, Phillips faced a second lawsuit, this time from a transgender lawyer who requested a cake celebrating a gender transition.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 12, 2025

Two labor unions and a grassroots advocacy group urged the Supreme Court on Monday to leave in place an order by a federal judge in Maryland that temporarily prohibits members of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency from accessing the records of the Social Security Administration. Senior U.S. A divided U.S.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 11, 2024

Elias has been sanctioned in past litigation. Elias was back in the news in another major defeat in Maryland. He filed in support of an abusive gerrymandering of the election districts that a court found violated not only violated Maryland law but the state constitution’s equal protection, free speech and free elections clauses.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 1, 2022

This week, a former Clinton campaign lawyer was in court with his counsel to fight the indictment by Special Counsel John Durham alleging a false statement to federal investigators. Elias has previously been sanctioned for his conduct in litigation and recently lost an effort to gerrymander the Maryland voting districts.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 7, 2025

Nearly a half-century ago, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a trial court infringed on a defendants Sixth Amendment right to be represented by an attorney when it prohibited him from meeting with his lawyer during an overnight break in his testimony.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Maryland v. Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 31, 2021

However, not surprisingly in our age of rage, there has been a slew of defamation claims raised from leading lawyers to universities to academics to police officers to the Dominion company to Sarah Palin to Jerry Falwell Jr. In order to prevail, a litigant must show either actual knowledge of its falsity or a reckless disregard of the truth.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. CLIMATE LITIGATION CHART. and non-U.S. In an unpublished decision, the D.C. 16-00276-UT (NMPRC Sept.

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Above The Law

APRIL 10, 2025

(Image via Getty) Unless you are a dinosaur lawyer or an aficionado of old movies, you probably dont remember seeing the movie with that title released more than 60 years ago. A naughty lawyer, said DOJ. So has the firms longest-serving lawyer. Should there now be several Biglaw Lawyers Anonymous groups?

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Kruger left WilmerHale for the University of Chicago Law School, where she taught a class in transnational litigation as a visiting assistant professor. Lawyers who practice regularly before that court describe Kruger in terms that are not unlike those used to characterize Breyer. solicitor general.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2022

Elias has previously been sanctioned for his conduct in litigation and recently lost an effort to gerrymander the Maryland voting districts. The key to many of these operations is someone referred to by Durham as “Campaign Lawyer-1,” who is now known to be Elias. Elias has been sanctioned in past litigation.

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Above The Law

MAY 9, 2025

The agreement now is pushing more lawyers to leave, people familiar with the matter said, spurred by anger that the firm capitulated to Trump instead of fighting back against an administration campaign that many in the industry believe to be unconstitutional. But now it’s supercharged. Can any serious person argue otherwise?

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Above The Law

MARCH 17, 2025

Highlights from Last Week – Top Ten Headlines #1 Continued Attacks on Lawyers Federal Judge Says It Sends Little Chills Down My Spine. That action came after he revoked security clearances held by any lawyers at the firm Covington & Burling . And if you havent read Treanors response to Martin, youll find it here. #2

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Above The Law

APRIL 28, 2025

Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan is accused of escorting the man and his lawyer out of her courtroom through the jury door last week after learning that immigration authorities were seeking his arrest. Having the questions drafted by non-lawyers using artificial intelligence is just unbelievable. Im almost speechless.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 30, 2025

Funding Freeze: Litigation Developments The weeks since the release and subsequent recission of OMB Memorandum M-25-13 ordering a temporary pause on most federal climate-related funding (among other policy areas) have been chaotic. A fuller summary of litigation challenging aspects of the funding freeze can be found in a companion blog post.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 23, 2021

However, there has been little pushback from a host of lawyers who have spent months calling for sanctions against Republican lawyers for filing lawsuits viewed legally or factually meritless. However, these same lawyers are largely silent in the face of meritless actions from the left.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 15, 2021

The two appeals were the subject of a flurry of last-minute litigation, in multiple federal courts, that reached the justices minutes before Johnson’s originally scheduled execution time of 6 p.m. Litigation over Higgs’ execution is ongoing. on Thursday. In two unsigned orders issued around 10 p.m.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 7, 2025

She contended that her colleagues decision to intervene in this litigation is as inexplicable as it is dangerous. Lawyers for the Venezuelan nationals urged the court to leave Boasbergs order in place. Harris told the justices that the Constitution supplies a clear answer: the President.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 15, 2022

6th riot have featured a number of Republican lawyers, including former Attorney General Bill Barr, who opposed efforts to challenge the election after finding no support for the widespread election fraud claims of former President Donald Trump. Elias has been sanctioned in past litigation. (MSNBC/via YouTube).

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

The justices also turned down (at least for now) efforts by a group of states, led by Texas, to revive litigation over the “public charge” rule after the Biden administration refused to defend the rule. That order is also covered in a separate article.). Free speech and public censure.

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