Judicial Ethics
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An Illinois federal judge recommended Friday that stored energy solutions company LiiON LLC face sanctions for discovery violations and other missteps in a $100 million trade secrets case against its former business partner Vertiv Group Corp… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The Ninth Circuit on Thursday backed a lower court’s decision not to vacate ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s guilty verdict in a contempt of court case, saying the verdict has “no legal consequences” in light of a pardon issued by President Donald Trump… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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An attorney challenging Delaware’s judicial political parity rule told the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday that a provision of the state constitution requiring equal representation of parties on the bench is “offensive to the First Amendment”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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After spurring the withdrawal of four federal prosecutors from Roger Stone’s criminal case, President Donald Trump’s tweets about the case sparked commentary Thursday on judicial independence from both Attorney General William Barr and the chief judge of the D.C. federal court handling the case… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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An Ohio attorney sued Alabama-based Beasley Allen Crow Methvin Portis & Miles PC on Friday in Cincinnati federal court, claiming the firm and one of its principals put out a book about the False Claims Act that “slavishly” lifted material from the Ohio lawyer’s own treatise… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 