Public Policy
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Just over a quarter of the aspiring attorneys who took the Golden State’s bar exam in February passed the test, marking a record low percentage of successful applicants, according to new data from the State Bar of California… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A 71-year-old Chinese real estate developer with heart disease and diabetes will have to stay behind bars while serving time for a bribery conviction after a New York federal judge on Friday ruled against his coronavirus-based release bid… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A divided Tenth Circuit panel on Thursday shot down a challenge to the Trump administration’s restrictions on firearm bump stocks, saying the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had likely acted within its authority when it issued a rule banning the devices… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A handful of Pennsylvania counties, elected officials and businesses mounted a legal challenge Thursday against the Keystone State’s COVID-19 shutdown order, the day after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to press pause on the order in a separate but similar case… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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An Illinois federal judge ruled that Jussie Smollett can’t pursue allegations that the city of Chicago, its police department and others participated in a malicious prosecution of the “Empire” actor after he was attacked earlier this year and then accused of staging the incident himself… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 