(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...
(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...
[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]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]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...
[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...
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...
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Mar 2023
[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...
[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
(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...
[photo1]A recent judgment from Connecticut's Judicial District of Hartford was disappointing, to put it mildly, for those interested in accountability in the reproductive field. Specifically, on Febr...
[photo1]The messy legal back-and-forth between the law firm Napoli Shkolnik and their former employee, Heather Palmore, began two weeks ago when they sued Palmore in New York state court alleging she ...
[photo1]* Baylor Law School out of compliance with ABA standards. [KWTX]* But the good news is that some other schools are back in compliance! [ABA Journal]* O'Melveney explains how expansion pushed t...
[photo1]After the NRA's wildly successful lobbying to turn the Second Amendment into an absolute individual right was emboldened by the Bruen decision, several states have been toeing the line to dete...
[photo1]David Sargent, an attorney and former faculty member at Loyola University Chicago's School of Environmental Sustainability, was indicted on insider trading charges. Prosecutors said Sargent re...
[photo1]One of the best ways to forecast future events is through past trends. The U.S. Supreme Court hears the majority of its cases after a decision is rendered by one of the 13 federal courts of a...