Justices Lean Toward Parole For Charged Green Card Holders

By Britain Eakin

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared unconvinced on Wednesday that returning green card holders with pending criminal charges must be admitted rather than paroled into the country, with one justice suggesting it could backfire on lawful permanent residents and might be impractical.

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Bondi's Proposed Rule Change May Shield Her In Ethics Case

By Phillip Bantz

A federal rule change that Pam Bondi proposed before she was fired as U.S. attorney general could stymie an ethics complaint against her in Florida, which is expected to be refiled after the state bar declined to take up the case during her tenure, experts say.

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SPLC Taps Bradley Arant Atty, Ex-Prosecutor For Defense

By Ryan Boysen

The Southern Poverty Law Center has hired a former federal prosecutor and longtime white collar defense attorney from Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP to defend against a criminal case that claims the organization paid informants to "stoke racial hatred."

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SBF Says He Wrote New Trial Bid Himself, But Asks To Pull It

By Lauren Berg

Imprisoned FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has told a New York federal judge that, although his attorney parents made suggestions regarding his motion for a new trial, he wrote the brief himself, but now wants to withdraw the request, because he doesn't "believe I will get a fair hearing on this topic in front of you."

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NY Top Court Tosses Murder Case Over 3-Year Retrial Delay

By Elizabeth Daley

New York's highest court has dismissed a murder charge against a man who was convicted by a jury after three others had deadlocked, finding that prosecutors failed to justify a more than three-year delay in going for the fourth trial.

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Acting DOJ Inspector General Tapped For Permanent Post

By Jack Karp

President Donald Trump has nominated the U.S. Department of Justice's acting inspector general, who investigated the FBI's probe into Trump's links with Russia, to remain in that role on a permanent basis, according to a White House announcement.

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NY High Court Orders Hearing On Reason For Traffic Stop

By Elizabeth Daley

A New York City man who served time for driving with a suspended license had his conviction reversed and sent back to the trial court by the Empire State's highest court, which found he should have had a suppression hearing after arguing police illegally stopped him.

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10th Circ. Backs $14M Verdict Over Denver Protest Policing

By Rachel Konieczny

The Tenth Circuit rejected Denver's challenge to a nearly $14 million jury verdict that found the city liable for police officers' unconstitutional force against protesters during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in the city.

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Steptoe Adds Hogan Lovells Voting Rights Partner In DC

By Jack Rodgers

Steptoe LLP has hired a Hogan Lovells partner who helped Black Alabamians secure voting rights protections in a U.S. Supreme Court victory in 2023, and who joins the firm in Washington to work with white collar defense and compliance matters.

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Norton Rose Faces $100M Suit Over Withdrawn Patent App

By Celeste Bott

Norton Rose Fulbright was sued in Illinois state court Tuesday by an advertising tech company claiming that the law firm mishandled a patent application and caused it to be deemed withdrawn, but kept the company in the dark about the loss of its valuable patent rights for over a year.

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Lockheed Birth Defect Trial Judge 'Disappointed' By Attys

By Cara Salvatore

A Florida federal judge said Tuesday he's "puzzled and disappointed" in counsel who appear "unprepared" on the eve of trial in a suit by children who blame their birth defects on Lockheed Martin's chemical handling practices at an Orlando defense system manufacturing and research facility.

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Hunter Biden Blasts Winston & Strawn Tactics In Fee Row

By Emily Sawicki

As a discovery dispute between Hunter Biden and Winston & Strawn LLP drags on amid a suit over allegedly unpaid legal bills, the former president's son accused the BigLaw firm, which once represented him in a Delaware criminal case and other matters, of resorting to "what is uncomfortably close to an ad hominem attack" against him.

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Messner Reeves Accused Of $8.3M Trust Account Fraud

By Zach Dupont

Colorado law firm Messner Reeves LLP was hit with a lawsuit Tuesday in federal court from five businesses claiming it stole more than $8 million from them in a fraudulent loan scheme involving a now-defunct sports arena and hotel project in Las Vegas.

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Alston & Bird Says Goliath Investors Can't Claim Malpractice

By Carolina Bolado

Alston & Bird LLP urged a Florida federal court on Wednesday to toss a malpractice suit claiming the firm facilitated a $328 million cryptocurrency scam at Goliath Ventures Inc., arguing that the proposed class of Goliath investors who brought the suit were never clients of the firm.

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House GOP Again Pushes Data Privacy Bill To Override States

By Allison Grande

House Republicans on Wednesday took their latest crack at establishing a cohesive nationwide data privacy framework, floating legislation that would give consumers more control over their personal information while preempting a growing patchwork of state laws, although early criticisms indicate that the issues that have long stymied these efforts persist.

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330+ Groups Urge DOJ To Restore Immigration Aid Staff

By Courtney Bublé

More than 300 legal services providers, faith-based institutions and community groups are calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to fully restore a program that allows nonlawyers to assist low-income and indigent persons in immigration proceedings.

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Paint Co. Says Injury Firm Used Stolen Data To Solicit Clients

By Abigail Harrison

A paint company has asked a North Carolina federal court to boot the opposing counsel in a putative data breach class action, accusing them of finding stolen data on the dark web and using it to solicit potential plaintiffs before victims were even notified of the breach.

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