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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
June 2, 2023 | Law.com
In a pair of lawsuits aimed at alleged consumer privacy violations by Amazon, the FTC has announced that the retail and tech giant will pay more than $30 million in settlements while "overhauling" deletion practices tied to children's voice information collected by Alexa and tossing out data taken from Ring doorbell videos that shouldn't have been surveilled.
By Jason Grant
7 minute read
February 9, 2023 | Law.com
The inmate has "stated a plausible claim for relief by arguing that his use of the anticonvulsant drug gabapentin for back pain would make his brain less responsive, or possibly unresponsive, to a drug used by Georgia for lethal injections," wrote a three-judge circuit court panel.
By Jason Grant
6 minute read
January 4, 2023 | Law.com
"Generally speaking, the Sherman Act prohibits monopolizing or unreasonably restraining trade and commerce," wrote the Sixth Circuit panel. "But Congress did not dispatch the Act to cover all actors," and one example of that is labor unions, such as the NBPA, which "Congress broadly exempted them from the Act's prohibitions."
By Jason Grant
5 minute read
November 1, 2022 | Daily Report Online
On the ratio list, the Peach State had 8.06 suits per 10,000 residents. On the overall list, Georgia ranked 10th with 2,994 lawsuits filed, with a total cost of $1.3 billion.
By Jason Grant
3 minute read
July 8, 2022 | Daily Report Online
When former lawyer Elizabeth Vila Rogan found out a judge she was looking for was not presiding in court in Georgia, "she signed his initials to the [court clarifying] order, with full awareness that she did not have permission to do so" and then "presented the order to the clerk of the court," wrote a New York appeals court that has disbarred her.
By Jason Grant
5 minute read
March 21, 2022 | New York Law Journal
Within hours of fleeing to western Ukraine, Inna Liniova and her colleagues, at least those who didn't take up arms and start looking for military training, began working in ways they never had before.
By Jason Grant
9 minute read
December 28, 2021 | New York Law Journal
A veteran criminal defense and divorce lawyer who is licensed in multiple states has been publicly censured in New York after responding to a former Tennessee client's negative online review of him, including by revealing the client's health and medical information.
By Jason Grant
4 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 20, 2021 | New York Law Journal
"This young man, like many young men in Family Court, is beset with a series of personal issues. So for her to hurl epithets at him is almost like piling on to his problems," said Holden Thornhill, a Black man who's been practicing law in Family Court for 25 years, of his teenage client. Thornhill also reflected on the racism he's faced as a Black attorney.
By Jason Grant
7 minute read
February 23, 2021 | New York Law Journal
"The truth is if Mr. Caplan had not been someone who had a great [ethics] lawyer, and if he hadn't been from a white-shoe law firm, he may not" have ended up with a retroactive two-year license suspension from the First Department court, but rather could have received a harsher sanction, said University of Connecticut law professor Leslie Levin.
By Jason Grant
1 minute read
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