accountability
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A Houston bankruptcy judge accused U.S. law firm Jackson Walker of breaching its ethical duties by failing to disclose earlier the relationship between David Jones, a former Houston bankruptcy judge, and one of its partners. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Marvin Isgur referred the entire Jackson Walker firm for disciplinary proceedings in a letter sent Friday to…
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Authorities have arrested an Alaska man, Panos Anastasiou, 76, on charges that he threatened to assault, kidnap, and murder six U.S. Supreme Court justices and some of their family members. Prosecutors allege that Anastasiou sent over 465 threatening messages through the Supreme Court’s website, starting in March 2023, with the threats escalating in violence by…
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The percentage of students of color in Harvard Law School’s new class dropped to 43% from 51% in 2023, according to data posted on the school’s website. This marks the first class admitted after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling that barred colleges and universities from considering race in admissions. The court’s decision came in…
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The Supreme Court rejected the Green Party’s attempt to rejoin the Nevada ballot on Friday, strengthening the Democrats’ effort to keep the party and its presidential candidate, Jill Stein, from competing in this battleground state for the November 5 election. The justices upheld a Nevada Supreme Court ruling, which barred the Green Party after it…
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A federal judge ruled on Thursday that George Mason University can continue its investigation into former law professor Joshua Wright, a former U.S. Federal Trade Commission member who resigned in 2023 following multiple accusations of sexual misconduct. U.S. District Court Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles, presiding in the Eastern District of Virginia, did not fully dismiss…
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The U.S. judiciary’s top policymaking body referred former Alaska judge Joshua Kindred to Congress for potential impeachment, even after his resignation, due to the severity of his “reprehensible” sexual misconduct. This decision, revealed in public records on Friday, explained why the U.S. Judicial Conference made the rare referral last week, certifying that the U.S. House…
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Morgan & Morgan has reignited an internet advertising dispute with another Florida-based law firm, accusing it of violating an agreement to avoid misleading customers through Google search results. Billing itself as the largest U.S. injury law firm, Morgan & Morgan filed a lawsuit against the 30-lawyer Morgan Law Group (MLG) on Thursday in an Orlando…
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Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered Elon Musk’s X to stop bypassing a previous ruling that suspended the social media platform in the country. If X fails to comply, it faces a daily fine of 5 million reais ($921,726.95), according to a decision issued late on Wednesday. X became accessible to many users in Brazil on…
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The State Bar of California plans to administer its own bar exam starting in February, but faced a setback on Wednesday when the California Supreme Court denied its petition for the change. The court noted in a brief docket entry that the state bar had failed to follow the proper procedure in transitioning to the…
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Meta Platforms (META.O) won the dismissal of a lawsuit alleging it defrauded shareholders by hiding the impact of changes to Apple’s (AAPL.O) privacy settings on the desirability of Facebook and Instagram for advertisers. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled on Tuesday that Meta did not conceal former Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg’s use of…
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