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Jason Grant is a staff writer covering legal stories and cases for the New York Law Journal, the National Law Journal and Law.com, and a former practicing attorney. He's written and reported previously for the New York Times, the Star-Ledger, the L.A. Times and other publications. Contact him at [email protected]. On Twitter, pls find him @JasonBarrGrant
April 13, 2023 | New York Law Journal
The lawyer for Stormy Daniels is trying to get Donald Trump's co-lead defense lawyer pushed off the "hush-payments" case, and Trump's attorney is firing back, telling the New York Law Journal late Wednesday that he's written to the judge to complain that Daniels' lawyer has engaged in the unauthorized practice of law.
By Jason Grant
7 minute read
February 16, 2023 | New York Law Journal
"For years, [Donald Trump] tried to stall and thwart our lawful investigation into his financial dealings, but today's decision sends a clear message that there are consequences for abusing the legal system," said New York Attorney General Letitia James.
By Jason Grant
5 minute read
September 9, 2022 | Law.com
"Before finding the former husband was entitled to attorney's fees, the [trial-] court stated it was reserving the issue for a subsequent hearing," said the Fourth District Court of Appeal. "But it did not do so."
By Jason Grant
4 minute read
August 9, 2022 | Daily Business Review
A Florida appeals court has reversed a trial court's rejection of a convict's ineffective-assistance grounds as relief from his conviction, saying that a judge's "subsequent explanation" regarding his true sentence-length exposure could not "cure" his lawyer's earlier wrongful advice.
By Jason Grant
5 minute read
August 1, 2022 | Daily Business Review
"A party cannot be held in civil contempt if it lacks the ability to comply," wrote the Florida First District Court of Appeal in a decision that reversed a contempt order the court said had "characteristics of both civil and criminal contempt sanctions."
By Jason Grant
5 minute read
December 21, 2021 | New York Law Journal
The detective and his anti-vaccination attorney, Patricia Finn, say they will go to federal court to seek an order making their state-court bench ruling for a TRO applicable to all city employees who haven't gotten a vaccine shot. They argue the Mayor Bill de Blasio's vaccine requirement violates employees' constitutional right to give informed consent.
By Jason Grant
6 minute read
November 9, 2021 | Daily Business Review
Damara Holness admitted that she fraudulently obtained a $300,000 forgivable, federally-guaranteed PPP loan by making the false statements in an online loan application to a Georgia bank, and by using supporting fraudulent payroll tax forms, said the U.S. Department of Justice.
By Jason Grant
3 minute read
June 7, 2021 | Law.com
"I think I was going into 2020 just sort of drifting along. And in some ways, everything that happened to me [with COVID-19] was a much-needed wake-up call. And I feel that my life and career are very on track right now," Lat said.
By Jason Grant
16 minute read
April 16, 2021 | New York Law Journal
"In line with the chief judge's zero-tolerance policy for any form of bias or discriminatory speech or actions, the New York City Family Court clerk overheard making racially demeaning comments at the conclusion of a proceeding, has been suspended," said Lucian Chalfen, OCA spokesman, in an email sent to the Law Journal late on Friday.
By Jason Grant
1 minute read
March 29, 2021 | Law.com
As the high-stakes trial of Chauvin, the white police officer who knelt on the neck of George Floyd, a Black man, before he was pronounced dead, gets underway, the world and lawyers everywhere are getting to see how trials are being conducted amidst the still-deadly pandemic.
By Jason Grant
1 minute read
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