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Alec Baldwin Sues New Mexico Prosecutors For Rust Charges
Actor-producer Alec Baldwin on Thursday accused the Santa Fe, New Mexico, district attorney, two special prosecutors and other local officials of mishandling evidence, defaming him and maliciously abusing the judicial process in their unsuccessful pursuit of charges against him in the wake of the fatal shooting on the "Rust" set.
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Law Firm Cleared, Murdaugh Pal Liable In Insurance Trial
A federal jury in South Carolina has found that a lawyer tied to Alex Murdaugh owes insurer Nautilus over $1 million for a role in an insurance fraud that was perpetrated when Murdaugh's housekeeper died, while a law firm was cleared of liability.
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Suspended Atty Seeks To Avoid Prison Over Payroll Tax Fraud
A suspended Ohio attorney who managed his wife's dental practice and admitted causing a $750,000 tax loss by failing to pay over employment taxes asked a federal court Thursday to spare him a prison sentence, saying he is not the "greedy liar" depicted by federal prosecutors.
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Supreme Court Declines To Halt Trump's NY Sentencing
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday denied Donald Trump's request to halt New York criminal proceedings in his hush money case, clearing the way for a state judge to sentence the president-elect on Friday, days before he takes the oath of office.
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Arkansas Justices At Odds Over Chief's Bid To Revive Firings
Members of the Arkansas Supreme Court are at an impasse over the chief justice's attempt to fire 10 state court employees after her fellow justices blocked the move, with her issuing an order to vacate their ruling and them saying her order is a mere dissent with no effect.
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Alito-Trump Phone Call Sparks Unanswered Calls For Recusal
Democratic lawmakers' calls for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to recuse from considering Donald Trump's bid to stay sentencing in his New York hush money case due to a phone call the pair had shortly before the emergency application was filed went unaddressed Thursday.
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5 Questions Attys Have About Supreme Court's TikTok Case
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Friday in TikTok's challenge to a law requiring the wildly popular social media platform to be divested from its Chinese parent company over national security concerns or face a nationwide ban, in an unusual First Amendment case attorneys say also raises broad procedural and legal questions.
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Ga. Courts Announce Friday Winter Storm Closures
Several courts across Georgia, including the state Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals, will be closed on Friday because a winter storm is expected to affect the northwestern part of the state.
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EDNY Prosecutor Transitions To Morrison Cohen
Morrison Cohen LLP has hired an Eastern District of New York prosecutor known for her roles in major cases like that against Mozambique's former finance minister, saying Thursday that she will focus on white-collar criminal defense, investigations and regulatory enforcement matters.
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Menendez Sentencing Won't Taint Wife's Trial, Gov't Says
New York federal prosecutors are urging a Manhattan federal judge to reject Nadine Menendez's request for a three-month delay in her trial on bribery charges, saying that the sentencing of her husband, former U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, on similar charges will not taint the jury pool for her trial.
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Trump's Attorney General Pick To Face Senators Next Week
President-elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, former attorney general of Florida, will sit for two days of confirmation hearings next week.
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Federal Judges Fear Slower Courts After 'Devastating' Veto
The president's veto of legislation that would have added dozens more federal judgeships has stunned and disappointed top jurists around the country, leaving them worried that the "devastating" move means backlogs on court dockets will continue to delay cases, hurt litigants and undermine confidence in the judicial system.
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Top Oversight Dem Seeks Report On Trump Classified Docs
The top Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Thursday asked the U.S. Department of Justice for a look at the special counsel report on former President Donald Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents, days after a federal court blocked its publication.
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George Santos' Sentencing Delayed For Podcast Earnings
A Brooklyn federal judge granted former U.S. Rep. George Santos' request to delay his sentencing in order to earn money through his weekly gossip podcast "Pants On Fire" that can go toward paying the roughly $580,000 he owes in restitution and forfeiture.
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Atty Wants Sanctions Mention Axed In NFL Merch Case
An attorney representing himself in a lawsuit seeking a court order saying he is allowed to sell unlicensed NFL merchandise took exception with a federal judge's suggestion that the league's merchandising arm may want to move for sanctions.
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Feds Ask To Release Report On Trump's DC Case, But Not Fla.
Special counsel Jack Smith asked the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday to deny Donald Trump's request to block the publication of a report on the now-abandoned federal election-meddling case against the president-elect in D.C. federal court, but said the Justice Department will hold off on releasing a report regarding the classified-documents case in Florida, where two co-defendants remain under indictment.
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Raging Wildfires Roil Los Angeles Legal Community
As out-of-control wildfires reportedly killed at least five people and forced tens of thousands in Los Angeles to evacuate, lawyers and law firms in the city confronted a day of upheaval both at home and in their jobs.
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Departing Mass. US Atty Predicts Similar Goals For Successor
As he prepares to leave his ninth-floor office at the John Joseph Moakley U.S. Courthouse on Boston's waterfront for the final time next Friday, U.S. Attorney Joshua Levy told reporters he expects his successor will continue to pursue the types of nonpartisan cases nearly everyone would agree are important.
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Attys For Organizations May Need To Clarify Roles, ABA Says
Lawyers advising organizations through nonclient constituents may be obligated to clear up any confusion about their role that may cause the constituents to mistakenly think they can rely on the lawyer's advice to avoid criminal or civil liability, the American Bar Association said in a formal opinion Wednesday.
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US Atty In Texas' Southern District To Step Down
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas announced Wednesday that he is leaving his post this month, the latest in a wave of resignations ahead of a second Trump administration.
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2 More US Attys In Ga. To Resign Before Trump Takes Office
The U.S. attorneys for the Southern District and Middle District of Georgia announced their resignations Wednesday, setting the stage for President-elect Donald Trump to replace all three top federal prosecutors in the state after the U.S. attorney for the Northern District recently said he would step down as well.
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Ohio Judge's License Reinstated Days After Retirement News
A former Cleveland judge's license to practice was reinstated Wednesday following a one-year suspension on ethics charges stating he pushed plea deals on defendants, made racially insensitive comments to them and ordered excessive contempt sentences for relatively minor infractions, days after the judge announced his retirement.
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FBI Director's Former Chief Of Staff Joins Fenwick
Weeks after FBI Director Christopher Wray announced that he'll resign at the end of President Joe Biden's term, Fenwick & West LLP said Wednesday that it has hired the FBI director's chief of staff, who joined the team as a white collar defense and investigations partner.
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Feds Want 2 Years In Prison For Atty In Payroll Tax Fraud
A former Ohio attorney who managed his wife's dental practice should spend at least two years in prison for causing $750,000 in federal tax losses and failing to pay employment taxes, prosecutors urged Wednesday, saying he used the business as a personal piggy bank.
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Feds Again Deny Leaks In NYC Mayor's Corruption Case
Federal prosecutors again rejected the claim that they had leaked classified information about New York City Mayor Eric Adams' corruption case to the press, telling a judge that they were not the source that allowed the New York Times to identify a grand jury witness and that Adams hadn't shown how he was prejudiced by the disclosure.