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August 14, 2026
A New York federal judge on Friday threw out — this time for good — former New York Knicks player Charles Oakley's assault and battery suit over his 2017 ejection from Madison Square Garden, though the judge kept the case open as the parties continue to spar over destroyed text messages and sanctions.
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August 14, 2026
The Second Circuit has ruled that a man cannot suppress a court-ordered DNA sample in his murder case even though police had not identified a viable comparison sample from the crime scene, becoming the first federal circuit court to address the question.
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August 14, 2026
A deputy corporation counsel in Chicago's legal department has been hit with discrimination claims for allegedly treating a supervising attorney's physical disability and workplace accommodation with "open hostility" before summoning her to a baseless disciplinary meeting in retaliation against her internal complaint.
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August 14, 2026
North Carolina's highest court Friday sided with an intellectual property attorney in finding that the value of his law firm attributable to his firm's "personal goodwill" is not marital property and thus can't be divvied up for equal distribution to his ex-wife following their divorce.
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August 14, 2026
An attorney who was terminated from the Connecticut prosecutors' office that responds to habeas petitions has brought a federal lawsuit alleging she was isolated, punished, overwhelmed with assignments and then let go because she took maternity leave.
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