Mike LaSusa
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Former New York lawmaker Dean Skelos contracted COVID-19 and will likely be released soon from the prison where he’s serving time for a corruption conviction, attorneys from the U.S. Department of Justice said in a Wednesday letter to a Manhattan federal judge… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A Washington federal judge shot down a Seattle-based music festival production company’s request to pause a case accusing it of misusing a partner company’s $2 million advance payment, pointing to technological workarounds for obstacles created by the COVID-19 pandemic… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Roughly $73 million of $97.28 million in damages over rest breaks was put in jeopardy for a class of California-based Wells Fargo home mortgage consultants after a split Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday partially backed the award, but said the ultimate amount rests on the Golden State’s high court’s forthcoming ruling in a separate case… Read this piece in its…
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A New York federal judge shot down a coronavirus-related compassionate release bid lodged by a former top deputy to notorious Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, saying Tuesday that the convict had to go through U.S. Bureau of Prisons channels first… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The U.S. Department of the Interior, joined by oil company Slawson Exploration Co. Inc., urged a North Dakota federal court to grant it a victory in a suit claiming it wrongly opened the door to drilling on tribal land in the face of objections from the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation… Read this piece in…
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