Judicial Ethics
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Stormy Daniels, whose high-profile lawsuit against President Donald Trump over a hush money agreement just suffered a blow, said on Tuesday that she’d hired a new attorney to replace Michael Avenatti after the embattled Los Angeles-based lawyer dropped the adult film actress as a client… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A D.C. federal judge took self-described political dirty trickster and Trump campaign veteran Roger Stone to task on Tuesday, saying the release of a preview to his book on the internet violated a gag order she had imposed last month… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A panel of California appellate judges on Thursday called out an attorney’s seemingly misogynistic and homophobic remarks from a court filing and said it had referred him to the state bar for possible disciplinary proceedings related to that incident and other alleged misconduct… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A Michigan federal judge on Thursday refused to recuse himself from a Canadian woman’s suit over an allegedly botched breast surgery, saying his instruction that the woman’s attorney should file a well-argued brief didn’t amount to bias on the judge’s part… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 