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March 28, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Updated: McAfee Hears Pretrial Motions in Ga. Election Interference Case; Trump Team Cites First Amendment

The former president's lawyers made First Amendment arguments, while a former Georgia GOP chairman and lawmaker sought to remove three phrases from his indictment.
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March 27, 2024 | New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 23-91

A full-time judge may (1) serve as treasurer of their local American Legion post and (2) participate in a regional American Legion service committee which strives to help women veterans, subject to generally applicable limitations on judicial speech and conduct.
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March 27, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Calif. Bar Court Recommends Disbarment of Ex-Trump Attorney Eastman, Who Also Faces Ga. Charges

Eastman has continued practicing law as part of a team of attorneys representing U.S. House Republicans Matt Gaetz of Florida and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia in a lawsuit accusing the California cities of Riverside and Anaheim of canceling rallies they were scheduled to appear at in 2021 because of the politicians' pro-Trump views.
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March 27, 2024 | The Recorder

California Bar Court Recommends Disbarment for Former Trump Attorney John Eastman

"Given the serious and extensive nature of Eastman's unethical actions, the most severe available professional sanction is warranted to protect the public and preserve the public confidence in the legal system," State Bar Court Judge Yvette Roland wrote.
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March 27, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Update: Arbery's Killers Ask 11th Circuit to Overturn Hate Crime Convictions

A panel heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case that followed a national outcry over the Black man's killing. The appellants' lawyers argued that evidence of past racist comments they made didn't prove a racist intent to harm.
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March 26, 2024 | Law.com

'Much More Unsettled': Recent Lawsuits, Court Actions Kick Up Uncertainty Over Section 230's Application to Social Media

"It's a signal to judges, and it's a signal therefore to litigants as well, that you might as well just start bringing these cases," Alan Rozenshtein, an associate law professor at the University of Minnesota. "You might win."
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March 26, 2024 | Texas Lawyer

Maritime Law Column: Texas Maritime Public Infrastructure Projects to Watch

"As is evident, there is a wealth of maritime infrastructure development occurring in Texas," writes columnist Keith Letourneau.
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March 26, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

Proposed Amendments to Federal Rules of Evidence Leave Much Uncertain

"This is to demonstrate that the appropriate use of illustrative aids, demonstrative evidence, and summaries of voluminous materials remains unclear," write Michael A. Kaplan and Christopher Dernbach of Lowenstein Sandler.
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March 25, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

'Difficult to Decipher' Arbitration Clause Deemed Unenforceable by NJ Appellate Division

"An initial scan of Section 27 reveals a series of difficult to decipher and contradictory sentences contained in a single arbitration clause," Judge Morris G. Smith said in his written opinion for the court. "The clause contains 887 words in thirty-six unbroken lines. A closer reading shows that the run-on paragraph harbors within it mutually inconsistent means for dispute resolution."
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March 25, 2024 | Law.com

Landmines In Bankruptcy Appellate Practice, Part III

When courts have made important exceptions in the past year, they have either added a gloss on the Judicial Code, corrected lawyers' errors, filled in statutory gaps, or clarified the relevant statutory language.
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