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Federal Judge Denies Motion to Dismiss Lawsuit Over Law School Application Fees
4+ hour, 22+ min ago (241+ words) Judge John F. Murphy previously granted the Law School Admission Council's motion to dismiss in April, but gave the plaintiff a chance to file an amended complaint in the case, which was filed on behalf of law school applicants nationwide over…...
Judge in $4 B Sex Abuse Settlement Rejects Los Angeles DA's Intervention: 'I Am Not in the Business of Policing Private Settlements"
8+ hour, 27+ min ago (283+ words) At a Thursday hearing, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lawrence Riff concluded Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman had not established that Los Angeles County Counsel and the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors did not adequately represent Los Angeles County,…...
2nd Circuit Revives Parent's Challenge to School Policy of Not Sharing Student Gender Identity
10+ hour, 1+ min ago (324+ words) The three-judge panel said the U. S. Supreme Court's Mirabelli v. Bonta decision from March undermined the lower court's dismissal of a mother's claims that the school district's nondisclosure policy violates her religious beliefs and parental rights. The U. S. Court of Appeals for the…...
An Ode to Dad: My Career Journey Began and My Dad's Influence
10+ hour, 56+ min ago (217+ words) Everything I am as an attorney'the way I prepare, the way I treat people, the way I show up'traces back to watching my dad do it first. As we celebrated Father's Day on June 21, I thought it apt to write…...
Courtroom Camera Bills Prompt Questions About AI-Driven Analyses of Judges
13+ hour, 53+ min ago (35+ words) The more useful question isn't whether to allow cameras, it's whether we authenticate the record well enough that a genuine clip can always be told apart from a fabricated one," wrote attorney Michael Mc Cready....
'Expensive Style:' Judge Agrees to $600 K Settlement in Long-Running Discrimination Suit
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (233+ words) In June 2025, the defendants filed a motion to dismiss. The motion was still pending at the time of the settlement. The motion said Gross-Quatrone's claim for gender discrimination against Mizdol failed because she could not demonstrate that she suffered any…...
SDNY Judge: Brooklyn Attorney's 'Outrageously Unprofessional' Conduct Included Deposition Disruptions, AI-Hallucination Citations
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (230+ words) This sanction against Tyrone Blackburn is only his latest admonishment from the courts. Two other jurisdictions have issued monetary sanctions against him for AI-related hallucination citations. A Southern District of New York magistrate judge sanctioned and referred a Brooklyn attorney…...
Judge Dismisses Weinstein Rape Charge After Manhattan DA Bragg Declines to Retry
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (253+ words) Manhattan prosecutors on Wednesday said they will not pursue a fourth trial against Harvey Weinstein and asked Justice Curtis Farber to dismiss the case. A key witness, Jessica Mann, declined to testify again. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office will not…...
'There's No Petitioning Activity There': Uber Fights Against Dismissal of Its RICO Case Against LA Firms
2+ day, 49+ min ago (50+ words) At a Wednesday hearing, Uber attorney Michael Huston, of Perkins Coie, told U. S. District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett at a downtown Los Angeles hearing that the Noerr-Pennington doctrine, which protects lawyers under the First Amendment from being sued because they filed…...
More Than 10, 000 L. A. Wildfire Survivors File Petition to Intervene in State Enforcement Action Against Insurer
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (286+ words) Every Fire Survivor's Network, a coalition of more than 10, 000 survivors of the Eaton and Palisades wildfires that devastated Los Angeles County in January 2025, has filed a petition to intervene in a state agency enforcement action against State Farm alleging the…...