Mike LaSusa
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The Ninth Circuit asked New York’s highest court on Thursday to weigh in on whether a certain set of litigation funding agreements constitutes a loan under Empire State usury laws, saying the answer to the question is key to resolving a California lawyer’s suit against a legal funder… Read this piece in its entirety at…
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A split Seventh Circuit panel on Wednesday upheld an Illinois federal judge’s order temporarily blocking the Trump administration from enforcing its public charge immigration rule in the Prairie State, though a U.S. Supreme Court ruling means the rule is still in effect nationwide… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A Fourth Circuit panel on Tuesday upended a West Virginia federal court’s decision to cite the doctrine of qualified immunity in granting a quick victory to the city of Martinsburg in a case over an allegedly wrongful police killing, with the appellate judges declaring, “This has to stop”… Read this piece in its entirety at…
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The California Judicial Council is considering a rollback of emergency rules related to bail, evictions and foreclosures that were put in place amid the COVID-19 pandemic, saying more flexibility is needed as various parts of the state are reopening at different paces… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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California’s Bureau of Cannabis Control has slammed a suit by Golden State communities seeking to ban pot deliveries within their jurisdictions, saying the suit should be nixed because the communities’ reading of the law leads to a “bizarre conclusion”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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