* Federal judiciary can stay open until October 17 amid shutdown. After that? Have you guys ever seen The Purge? [ Reuters] * Lawyer giving out roadside legal advice. Did you know lawyers could provide pro bono work without a corrupt quid pro quo? [ Axios] * E-Verify goes down after government shutdown in perfect encapsulation of how the administration doesn't care about immigration beyond authorizing masked vigilantism. [ Law360]
Second District Judge Megan Marshall made the ruling Wednesday, saying the dissemination of "incredibly disturbing" photos across the internet - where the victims' families might inadvertently see them - is an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. She ordered the city of Moscow to black out portions of the images that show any portion of the victims' bodies or the blood immediately surrounding them.
In March, the department enacted a reduction-in-force plan to eliminate nearly half of its employees, including 276 at OCR, as part of wider effort to dismantle the 45-year-old agency. Those RIFs prompted multiple lawsuits against the department, including New York v. McMahon and the Victim Rights Law Center v. Department of Education; while the former challenged RIFs across the entire department, the latter case was restricted to the RIFs within OCR. Federal district judges issued injunctions in both cases during the litigation process.
Delivering her summary judgment, Justice Cockerill said the gowns failed to comply with a "validated sterilisation process", as explicitly required under the contract. While PPE Medpro had accepted this requirement during contractual negotiations, the gowns it supplied lacked the appropriate Notified Body numbers mandated under EU legislation for Class I sterile medical devices. "PPE Medpro breached the contract," the judge concluded, citing the absence of sufficient sterilisation certification and technical compliance.
Sending text message reminders to indigent South Bay defendants reduced jailings for missed court appearances by at least 20%, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford, Harvard and New York universities that devised an automated system to help people remember their court dates. The study, which involved thousands of people represented by the Santa Clara County Public Defender's Office, contends that missed court appearances more often than not the product of simple forgetfulness and a lack of familiarity with court procedure, rather than acts of defiance.
Although the federal government shutdown appears ready to begin at 12:01 AM on October 1, 2025, the United States Patent and Trademark Office is likely to continue in normal operation by drawing on its Operating Reserve which the agency has been building up over the past several years. A prolonged shutdown would eventually exhaust the reserves and trigger an end to spending.
"Sean Combs used violence, threats, substances, and control over my career to trap me in over a decade of abuse," she wrote. "He groomed me into performing repeated sex acts with hired male sex workers during multi-day 'Freak-Offs,' which occurred nearly weekly. I was forced into lingerie and heels, told exactly how to look, and plied with drugs and alcohol so he could control me like a puppet," Cassie wrote.
Police officers, firefighters, and EMTs responding to emergencies often operate their vehicles under circumstances far different from everyday motorists. While New York law recognizes this reality by affording emergency vehicles certain privileges, questions often arise about when those privileges apply and what standard of care governs if an accident occurs. A recent decision from the Appellate Division, Second Department Begum v. Marzullo (2025 NY Slip Op 04621) highlights the importance of properly identifying the governing standard when litigating collisions involving emergency vehicles.
The negative review, posted on the Facebook page for Gonzales' law firm, said Gonzales is a "horrible lawyer" who "doesn't do her job and is a nasty rude person." Gonzales replied in the comments section. "Be careful of this woman and her family," Gonzales wrote. "She is a terrible mother. She allows her kids to damage other people's property and then blames everyone else. She does not like hearing the truth about her lack of parenting nor the worthless child she raised.
As noted by the American Lawyer, the firm recently announced the appointment of Wesley Mission, the firm's finance group chair, to assist Patrick Quinn, the firm's longtime managing partner. The firm hasn't had a co-managing partner in a decade. In a memo to partners, Quinn said that Mission "has been serving alongside me effectively as co-managing partner, and I'm thrilled that he has agreed formally [to] take on the role." So what, exactly, is Mission's mission at CWT?
Ken Biberaj got a surprising call from his lawyer earlier this year, six months after he filed a trademark application for the name of his policy-focused interview podcast, Coffee With Ken. The US Patent and Trademark Office had given its preliminary approval, but now there was a problem: A challenge had been filed, the lawyer said. The objecting party turned out to be Mattel, the maker of Barbie. "Wait, because of the Ken doll? " Biberaj recalls saying.
In February 2022, the victim allegedly asked Brown to be the trustee of their trust, which held their approximately $700,000 settlement from the accident. Brown allegedly had exclusive control over the victim's money and was required as trustee to use it for the victim's "health, support and maintenance," according to prosecutors. Brown later allegedly fell victim to a scammer pretending to be in an online relationship with him,
The drugmaker Pfizer faces a US lawsuit brought on behalf of women who developed brain tumours, which they say are linked to their use of the company's contraceptive injection Depo-Provera. The class action lawsuit alleges that the US pharmaceutical company failed to warn women and doctors about the increased risk of developing an intracranial meningioma if Depo-Provera, a quarterly injection, is used for more than a year. A court hearing will take place in Pensacola, Florida, on Monday.
On this episode of the UpLevel View podcast, hosts Steph Corey and Ken Callander talk with Grubhub's Katie Armistead about how legal teams are bringing order to the chaos with phase-based fees, risk-sharing, and value-driven pricing. Changing Models It can often be difficult to convince members of a corporate law department to switch pricing models. Here, Steph and Katie share some factors that can convince a team to make this change.
A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman's How Appealing blog, the Web's first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing. "Fed Independence Reaches Its Moment of Truth as Supreme Court Weighs Cook's Fate; High court to decide whether Trump can remove board member, which former officials see as threat to central bank independence": Nick Timiraos of The Wall Street Journal has this report.
Alden declined to comment on the content of the subpoenas because they are still under seal, but he said the release could undermine IOLERO's efforts to protect the investigation, the privacy of Sheriff's Office staff and the whistleblower, who has not been publicly identified. The subject of the whistleblower complaint is also not publicly known. However, in an attempt to quash the subpoenas, Deputy Sheriffs' Association attorney Murphy wrote to county counsel on May 10, 2024:
