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Justices Hint At Barring Del. Med Mal Law In Federal Court
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared to side with a retired attorney's position that a Delaware medical malpractice statute clashes with federal rules of procedure and is therefore unenforceable in federal court, with several justices saying the law appears to be an improper procedural requirement.
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Justices Urged To Leave Trans Passport Ban On Ice
Two classes of transgender and nonbinary people urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to reject the Trump administration's bid to lift a nationwide order that requires it to continue issuing passports that reflect the holders' gender identity, saying the proposed policy change is a textbook example of an unreasoned decision.
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Justices Won't Hear Challenge To Mich. Claims Court
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to take up a challenge to the structure of Michigan's trial-level court for claims against the state, which is staffed by judges of the state's intermediate appellate court.
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Grassley Probes Judges' Possible AI Use In Faulty Rulings
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, pressed two federal judges on Monday about their possible use of artificial intelligence in court orders that contained a multitude of errors.
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Trump Names Investigator Of Russia Probe As DOJ Acting IG
The White House has tapped an experienced government attorney who investigated the FBI's probe into President Donald Trump's links with Russia to be the U.S. Department of Justice's acting inspector general, according to a notification sent to Congress.
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Womble Bond Adds Cybersecurity Pro From Texas AG's Office
Womble Bond Dickinson announced Monday that it has bolstered its privacy and cybersecurity practice and its artificial intelligence and machine learning team with a Houston-based partner who previously served as director of privacy and technology enforcement at the Texas attorney general's office.
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More Time Needed To Replace DA On Trump Case, Judge Told
The Georgia agency tasked with appointing a new prosecutor to oversee the election interference case against President Donald Trump told a state court judge Monday it needs more time to name a successor than the 14 days the judge said he'll allow before he throws the case out.
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DOJ Antitrust Ace, Whistleblower Joins HSF Kramer
The former deputy assistant attorney general of the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, who in 2020 said then-Attorney General Bill Barr investigated several cannabis company mergers because he disliked the industry, has joined Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP's team in the nation's capital.
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Justices Won't Review Ex-BigLaw Atty's OneCoin Conviction
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a former Locke Lord LLP partner's appeal of his conviction and prison sentence for helping launder roughly $400 million in proceeds from the infamous OneCoin cryptocurrency scheme.
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Justices Reject Case Over Legal Client's Lawsuit Threat
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday refused to take up a case by a man who argued that his threat to sue his civil lawyer for malpractice created an automatic conflict of interest when the same lawyer was also defending him in a criminal case.
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Up First At High Court: Election Laws & Conversion Therapy
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in six cases during the first week of its October 2025 term, including in disputes over federal candidates' ability to challenge state election laws, Colorado's ban on conversion therapy, and the ability of a landlord to sue the U.S. Postal Service for allegedly refusing to deliver mail.
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Trump Election Case Could Be Axed Without New Prosecutor
A Georgia state judge on Friday said a new prosecutor must be appointed within two weeks in Fulton County's 2020 election interference case against President Donald Trump and his co-defendants or the case will be dismissed.
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'Whiz Honor' Judge Says No Crime, No Unpaid Suspension
A Philadelphia judge under investigation for allegedly trying to influence the sentencing for an associate of rapper Meek Mill has asked the Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline not to suspend him without pay, arguing that he has not been charged with a crime, so there is no reason for a suspension.
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Would-Be Kavanaugh Assassin Gets 8 Years In Prison
A Maryland federal judge on Friday handed an eight-year prison sentence plus a lifetime of supervised release to a Californian accused of trying to kill U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, rejecting prosecutors' request that the defendant spend at least 30 years behind bars.
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4 Top Supreme Court Cases To Watch This Term
After a busy summer of emergency rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court will kick off its October 2025 term Monday with only a few big-ticket cases on its docket — over presidential authorities, transgender athletes and election law — in what might be a strategically slow start to a potentially momentous term. Here, Law360 looks at four of the most important cases on the court's docket so far.
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Combs Gets 50 Mos. For Prostitution As Court Cites Violence
A Manhattan federal judge sentenced Sean "Diddy" Combs to 50 months in prison Friday, after a jury found him guilty of transporting two former girlfriends for prostitution, citing "massive" evidence of violent attacks the hip-hop icon inflicted over a decade.
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DOJ Wants Atty Jailed For Blogging After Cyberstalking Arrest
Federal prosecutors want to detain a Texas attorney who is accused of cyberstalking two other lawyers, claiming she violated the terms of her pretrial release by posting personal information about her alleged victims on her website.
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Jackson Walker, Ex-Insurer Settle Judge Romance Claims
In the latest settlement with Jackson Walker over a former partner's secret romance with an ex-bankruptcy judge, the litigation trustee for defunct life insurance bond settler GWG Holdings Inc. reached a $405,000 deal Friday to settle its claims against the law firm.
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NY Atty's Big Mouth Wins Client New Trial
A New York appeals court has reversed a man's 6½-year sentence for weapons possession and granted him a new trial after finding his defense attorney "created an actual conflict of interest by prematurely disclosing confidential information to the court."
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Vanderbilt Law Grad Says Wrongful Conviction Ruined Dream
A graduate of the prestigious Vanderbilt Law School has been shut out of the legal profession for years because Connecticut police and his own criminal defense attorneys worked to ensure that he was wrongfully convicted of assault, according to a civil rights and legal malpractice lawsuit this week removed to federal court.
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Ga. Judge 'Cannot Be Trusted,' Must Leave Bench, Panel Says
The Georgia Judicial Qualifications Commission is recommending that a judge who gave dishonest testimony regarding wide-ranging allegations of misconduct, including the illegal arrest and false imprisonment of a witness, should be kicked off the bench, saying that a judge who "cannot be trusted to tell the truth cannot be trusted to remain in office."
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Trailblazing Ga. Judge Dedicated Career To Public Service
A Georgia state court judge who recently died is remembered for his "commitment to justice" as a state senator, a jurist and an alum of Atlanta's John Marshall Law School who desegregated his elementary school and was the first Black judge in an Atlanta-area municipal court.
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Newman Opposes Fed. Circ.'s Stay Bid Amid Shutdown
The government shutdown is no excuse to halt proceedings in Judge Pauline Newman's case for reinstatement to the Federal Circuit, the judge said in an opposition, noting in a Friday filing that the Federal Circuit was seeking to delay its own litigation while pledging to deny similar motions that come before it.
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Justices To Weigh Compensation In Tax-Foreclosure Sale
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up a case contending that a deceased homeowner's estate was denied its constitutionally owed compensation when a Michigan county sold a tax-foreclosed property at a fraction of its fair market value.
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The Roberts Court At 20: How The Chief Is Reshaping America
Twenty years after John Roberts became the 17th chief justice of the United States, he faces a U.S. Supreme Court term that's looking transformative for the country and its institutions. How Justice Roberts and his colleagues navigate mounting distrust in the judiciary and set the boundaries of presidential authority appear increasingly likely to define his time leading the court.
Expert Analysis
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.