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Latest News in Legal Ethics

  • June 12, 2026

    Split DC Circ. Backs Venezuela's $108M Arbitration Order

    A divided D.C. Circuit panel affirmed Friday that Venezuela must pay a more than $100 million arbitral award to a Barbadian oil field investor, in an opinion that spends more than five pages rejecting points that U.S. Circuit Judge Justin R. Walker made in an even lengthier dissent.

  • June 12, 2026

    Texas Judge Reprimanded For Jailing Jurors Amid Feud

    The Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct issued a public reprimand against a state judge who tossed multiple would-be jurors in jail amid a political rivalry, saying Judge Amber King violated state rules on judicial ethics.

  • June 12, 2026

    PTAB Again Invalidates Centripetal Patent In Cisco Case

    The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has again found that a Centripetal Networks cybersecurity patent that was part of a since-vacated multibillion-dollar judgment against Cisco Systems is invalid as obvious, after the Federal Circuit ordered the board to rethink an earlier invalidity ruling.

  • June 12, 2026

    9th Circ. Tells Serial Litigant App Developer No More

    The Ninth Circuit has said it does not want to hear any more from a serial litigant who has a bone to pick with tech behemoth Apple and a California federal court over the exclusion of an application for tracking COVID-19 cases from the App Store.

  • June 12, 2026

    2nd Circ. Doubts Tax Plea Advice Misled Man On Deportation

    A skeptical Second Circuit judge on Friday told a Connecticut attorney to stop saying his client was "affirmatively misled" while pleading guilty to tax evasion charges, hinting a written plea agreement and verbal warnings from a federal judge were probably sufficient to advise the client he could be deported.

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