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'It's a Weird Crime': South Florida Homeowner Claims Scammers Are Trying to Sell Her Properties

A South Florida homeowner claims someone fraudulently sold her property, posted on Zillow, to an unsuspecting buyer. And now, scammers are attempting to sell another one of her properties.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

'Not Worthy of Credence': Ordering Release of Mueller Report Memo, Judge Blasts Trump DOJ for 'Disingenuous' Claims

"The agency's redactions and incomplete explanations obfuscate the true purpose of the memorandum, and the excised portions belie the notion that it fell to the attorney general to make a prosecution decision or that any such decision was on the table at any time," the federal judge wrote of the memo on whether to prosecute Trump over findings in the Mueller report.
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

How Attorneys Can Utilize Social Workers in Exonerating a Wrongly Convicted Person

Since 1989, 390 people have been exonerated in Texas; 356 in Illinois; 307 in New York; 229 in California; and a total of 2,754 in the entire country, say Christine M. Sarteschi, associate professor of social work and criminology at Chatham University, and Daniel Pollack, attorney and professor at Yeshiva University's School of Social Work.
5 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

Argument Docket: Fair Credit Reporting Act In Focus | Breyer: 'The Less That We Write, the Better' | Bid Fails to Depose Hillary Clinton | Headlines: Justices Take Kentucky Abortion Law Case

Welcome to Supreme Court Brief, home to sophisticated and predictive reporting on the justices, the lawyers arguing before them and the consequential cases at the heart of the high court's docket.
8 minute read

National Law Journal

Judge, Finding Discrepancies in Descriptions of Trump Ukraine Docs, Orders Some Released to New York Times

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said there were "obvious differences between the affiants' description of the nature and subject matter of the documents, and the documents themselves."
4 minute read

National Law Journal

DC Circuit Shuns 'Garamond,' Setting Lawyers Abuzz Over Favorite Fonts

The appeals court issued a notice titled "Preferred Typefaces for Briefs" that essentially declared—but did not mandate—Garamond a dead letter.
8 minute read

National Law Journal

Barrett's Debut Majority Opinion Drew Two Dissenting Justices, Ending Unanimity Streak 

The "customary criteria" for a debut majority decision at the U.S. Supreme Court, one court scholar writes, is a "unanimous decision in a case lacking great controversy."
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Denied a Seal, Nelson Mullins Reveals Rates in Fee Petition in Patent Suit

"[T]he effect of a request to seal this information is tantamount to a request to issue a secret order," U.S. District Judge Kenneth Bell in the Western District of North Carolina, a former McGuireWoods partner, said in his recent order requiring disclosure of rates and other records.
7 minute read

The Recorder

Bar Survey of October Exam Takers Reveals Tech Support and Other Concerns

The feedback on the exam was included in 932 pages of public-record documents related to the October test obtained by The Recorder.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

Ballard Spahr Wins $122K in Legal Fees in FOIA Suit Over PPP Loan Secrecy

The open records lawsuit ultimately forced the Trump administration to released detailed information about who received PPP loans.
3 minute read

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