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Texas Lawyer

This Lawyer Just Rose to Judge: 'Best-Respected' in Texas

The attorney is board-certified in appellate law, a fellow of the invitation-only American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, and has practiced for more than 35 years.
2 minute read

The Recorder

Bedsworth: The Importance of Spotting Red Flags

"A good portion of our lives is spent learning to identify red flags. And the better we are at it, the better chance we have of surviving to see the next one. Simple as that. But we seem to be losing our respect for red flags," says Justice William W. Bedsworth.
7 minute read

National Law Journal

Retired US Judge, Ethics Experts Ask 11th Circuit to Reassign Trump Classified Docs Case

"A reasonable member of the public could conclude, as many have, that the dismissal was the culmination of Judge [Aileen] Cannon's many efforts to undermine and derail the prosecution of this case" against former President Donald Trump, the amicus brief stated.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Meet the New York Court System's New Coordinator of Judicial Appointments

Desirée Kim's new role will entail acting as a liaison to the governor and New York City mayor's offices, along with the state Board of Elections, regarding judicial vacancies and appointments.
2 minute read

Daily Business Review

DeSantis Appoints Judge

Tracy Smith, from Lynn Haven, will serve as a circuit judge at the Bay County courthouse.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

The Oldest Case in the Court System

"This story is a fictionalized amalgam of many actual instances that I experienced in my years as a trial judge serving in the Supreme Court, New York County's Civil Term. It depicts the pressures that existed on all of us before IAS, during and beyond to deal with the case load that kept growing and growing and especially those cases that we commonly called "old dogs," the ones that just wouldn't ever disappear."
13 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Retired Presiding Appellate Division Judge Tapped to Lead Committee on Judicial Conduct

Retired chief judge of the Appellate Division, Carmen Messano has been tapped to helm the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct by Chief Justice Stuart Rabner, who called the retired Appellate Division judge a "gifted leader."
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

A Judge Wanted to Demolish the Criminal Justice System

The State Commission on Judicial Conduct catalogs a lengthy record of actions taken by the former judge that showed an extreme bias against prosecutors, law enforcement, victims of domestic violence, standard judicial procedures.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Bureau of Prisons Designates White-Collar Defendant to Alternative Prison Following Novel Ruling

Federal Judge Gary Brown ruled he would vacate a prior carceral sentence in the event the BOP designated a septuagenarian defendant to an "inhumane" facility in Brooklyn. The Bureau of Prisons will send the man elsewhere.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

'Arbitrary and Capricious'?: Federal Judge Nullifies Gulf Coast Big Oil Assessment

"Deferring vacatur of the BiOp until mid-December strikes the appropriate balance between the importance of getting this unlawful agency action off the books and the public interest in a predictable, managed transition to a new biological opinion," U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman wrote in her memorandum opinion.
4 minute read

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