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Avalon Zoppo is an appellate courts reporter for The National Law Journal. Contact her at [email protected]. On Twitter: @AvalonZoppo.
December 26, 2023 | National Law Journal
"The Constitution plainly requires that a criminal defendant be tried in the place where the criminal conduct occurred," appeals court says.
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December 26, 2023 | National Law Journal
By contrast, the report also found that the probability of plaintiff success in harassment cases on appeal decreased after the #MeToo movement began.
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December 20, 2023 | National Law Journal
U.S. appeals court have uniformly rejected the companies' reference to a federal common law of interstate air pollution.
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December 19, 2023 | National Law Journal
The dissenting judges fell a vote short of reconsidering the Communication Decency Act's immunity provision.
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December 19, 2023 | National Law Journal
If confirmed, the judges would fill seats in Texas, Nebraska, Utah and Wyoming.
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December 14, 2023 | National Law Journal
In the lawsuit, Erma Wilson alleges that Midland County violated her due process rights by employing Ralph Petty as a prosecutor at the same time that, unbeknownst to her, he worked as a law clerk for the county judge who handled Wilson's drug-possession case.
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December 14, 2023 | National Law Journal
Former President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen urged a federal appeals court Thursday to allow his retaliation lawsuit against the ex-president to move forward under the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, which permits civil claims for damages for constitutional violations by federal officers.
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December 13, 2023 | National Law Journal
Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday grilled federal appellate court nominee and longtime labor lawyer Nicole Berner over a past comment she made calling the "right-to-work" movement racist.
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December 12, 2023 | National Law Journal
The Senate on Monday confirmed federal public defender Richard Federico to a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit that has been vacant for more than two years.
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December 11, 2023 | National Law Journal
Trial began Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina in former federal public defender Caryn Strickland's closely watched sexual harassment case against the judiciary, with the government arguing that discrimination alleged by Strickland was, in reality, an "ordinary work dispute."
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