Judicial Ethics
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Roger Stone will have an extra two weeks to report to prison, a D.C. federal judge ruled Friday, pointing to health concerns voiced by the longtime ally of President Donald Trump while denying Stone’s request to extend his surrender date even further to September… This piece was co-authored with Khorri Atkinson. Read it in its
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General Motors on Friday attacked a Michigan federal judge’s “unprecedented” decision to order the chief executives of GM and Fiat Chrysler to meet and negotiate an end to GM’s lawsuit alleging that its rival bribed senior auto workers union officials, asking the Sixth Circuit to undo the order and take the judge off the case…
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An attorney who was fired from her job as an associate at San Diego-based Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP has filed a lawsuit in state court claiming the firm and several partners harassed, defamed and discriminated against her before giving her the boot when she spoke out… Read this piece in its entirety at
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Two attorneys charged with an alleged Molotov cocktail attack on a police vehicle in New York City should have to stay behind bars while they’re prosecuted, federal prosecutors told the Second Circuit, arguing detention without bail is the default in such cases… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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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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