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Avalon Zoppo is an appellate courts reporter for The National Law Journal. Contact her at [email protected]. On Twitter: @AvalonZoppo.
May 7, 2024 | National Law Journal
The state's law, which went into effect last May, criminalizes "recruiting, harboring, or transporting" a pregnant minor to access a legal abortion if the adult has the intent to conceal the abortion from a parent or guardian.
By Avalon Zoppo
4 minute read
May 6, 2024 | National Law Journal
"As judges who hire law clerks every year to serve in the federal judiciary, we have lost confidence in Columbia as an institution of higher education," stated the letter sent to Minouche Shafik, the university's president.
By Avalon Zoppo
4 minute read
May 6, 2024 | National Law Journal
"We know these cases are coming, we know they're here and that more are coming," said Oregon Supreme Court Justice Rebecca A. Duncan. "What do we need to be aware of? How can we manage these cases? And one of the things that we can be aware of to help us prepare are the resources."
By Avalon Zoppo
4 minute read
May 6, 2024 | National Law Journal
It's a simple tool that can save time and energy for multitasking attorneys and help pro se litigants who might especially struggle with learning complex procedural rules, said Clerk of Court Chris Wolpert.
By Avalon Zoppo
4 minute read
May 3, 2024 | Law.com
"I doubt that January 6 would have ever occurred had it not been for the enabling of that effort by lawyers of the legal profession," said Michael Luttig, formerly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
By Avalon Zoppo
5 minute read
May 1, 2024 | National Law Journal
The challenge to the program seems to be a part of a larger legal strategy to create a circuit split, thus increasing chances of U.S. Supreme Court review, said Andrew Twinamatsiko, director of the Health Policy and the Law Initiative at the O'Neill Institute.
By Avalon Zoppo
5 minute read
April 30, 2024 | National Law Journal
"Hopefully, a future panel of this Court, or the Supreme Court, can clarify the law along the lines described here, so that the majority's untenable views are not sustained," Judge Eric Clay wrote.
By Avalon Zoppo
3 minute read
April 19, 2024 | Law.com
"If there is not a robust pipeline of decisions going up and coming down where the appellate courts are providing guidance to trial judges, then the consequence is oftentimes a lot of wasted time," said attorney Ryan Baker.
By Avalon Zoppo
7 minute read
April 17, 2024 | National Law Journal
Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and his GOP colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee raised a case Kevin Gafford Ritz handled in which a public defender accused the then-assistant U.S. attorney of making misrepresentations to a defense attorney to elicit a guilty plea.
By Avalon Zoppo
4 minute read
April 16, 2024 | National Law Journal
"It seems to us that, as an investor in Akorn whose shares' value was affected by the merger and the mootness fees, Frank has a claim in common with the main action; how could it be otherwise?" Judge Frank Easterbrook wrote for the court.
By Avalon Zoppo
5 minute read
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