Mike LaSusa
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A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Wednesday struck down rules blocking the federal court system’s administrative employees from many forms of political speech, saying the government couldn’t show the limits would help maintain the judicial branch’s reputation for partisan neutrality… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Wednesday threw out a revamped defamation case brought by former Maricopa County, Arizona, sheriff Joe Arpaio, which sought more than $300 million in damages from HuffPost, Rolling Stone and journalists at both publications… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Federal prosecutors fired back on Tuesday against requests for sentencing accommodations in the “Varsity Blues” college admissions case related to the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the U.S. Bureau of Prisons is taking precautions against the spread of the new coronavirus… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The Southern District of New York’s chief judge on Tuesday pushed back a high-profile drug patent trial from May to July after lawyers for Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Serenity Pharmaceuticals LLC expressed concerns about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the proceedings… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A pair of Eleventh Circuit judges tore into their colleagues’ decision Monday to deny a rehearing to a Florida city whose dismissed lawsuit accused Wells Fargo of discriminatory lending, saying the city should have been given more opportunity to prove its standing to bring the case… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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