(Image via Getty)Ed. note: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman's How Appealing blog, the Web's first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories...
(Photo by Kevin Hagen/Getty Images)Can you get a judicial order to put the toothpaste back in the tube? Fox News is aiming to find out.Yesterday, the company filed a motion to seal portions of the emp...
[photo1]The story of Shepard's Citations began when a salesman named Frank Shepard published the first version of his guide to legal precedence in 1873 after noticing how his attorney colleagues kept ...
(Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)As of this writing, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has not yet indicted Donald Trump in connection with the 2016 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels. But...
Family court (by David Lat).On February 24, 2023, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania issued a ruling that should be highly troubling to LGBTQ+ parents everywhere. In the case, the court denied parenta...
[photo1]Defense attorneys play an important role in our legal system. No matter how presumed innocent you are, going pro se is generally not the best decision. The need for counsel is even more import...
[photo1]All dogs go to Heaven. Can't say the same for their toys though -- one in particular is caught in legal limbo with Jack Daniel's at the Supreme Court. And while this is not a joke, it is a sil...
[photo1]Angela Reading is a Villanova Law student, a New Jersey mom, a former school board member, and she recently filed a federal lawsuit against her Jersey town, the local police chief, school supe...
[photo1]Florida attorneys -- and spouses -- Jared Beck and Elizabeth Lee Beck had their Twitter accounts suspended four years ago. The Becks, who met as summer associates at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & S...
[photo1]A federal judge decided to offer an attorney before the court a little grace after a filing filled with "unnecessary potshots and hyperbole," not that the attorney took him up on the offer. No...
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.We do not tolerate attempts to intimidate our office or threaten the rule of law in New York.
Mar 2023
The indictment will be sealed, so the public won't know its contents until either Trump is arraigned or someone leaks information.Then, all hell will break loose.Trump's started chiseling around the c...
[photo1]As you likely know by now, Silicon Valley Bank found itself in a pot of trouble after suffering a massive bank run. If you are like me, you've recently found out that bank runs can happen when...
Sam Bankman-Fried received about $2.2 billion in payments and loans from FTX entities, mainly from Alameda Research, FTX and its affiliated debtors said yesterday. Bankman-Fried's fellow executives re...
Africa's most valuable unicorn Flutterwave is still not off the hook in Kenya. About $3 million of its money that was confiscated in the second government seizure over money laundering and fraud claim...
[photo1]Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!Who was the first woman admitted to the Supreme Court bar and the first woman to argue a case before ...
Deon Jones (Photo by Robert Smith/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)In the wake of George Floyd's 2020 murder by a police officer, mass protests broke out across the country in response to police brut...
[photo1]Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!Which state supreme court recently struck down as unconstitutional a policy banning rude comments at town meetings?
Mar 2023
Jenna Ellis (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images)Another member of Trump's Elite Superfriends Sparklemagic Strike Team Task Force got dinged yesterday as the Supreme Court of Colorado approved an admis...
(Screenshot via Senate Judiciary Committee)I'm not sure about the exact billables, but I'm sure I've worked more than 1,000 hours because my wife... we uh... we've had conversations about that...