Flint, Michigan residents, via their attorneys, filed a proposed settlement on November 24, 2020, for $641.2 million as a result of their suit for damages from contaminated water. The State of Michigan was the named defendant in the lawsuit. The City of Flint, McLaren Regional Medical Center, and Rowe Professional Services Company... Read More »
Former Georgia Chief Justice George H. Carley died on Thanksgiving at 82 after contracting COVID-19. Former Governor Zell Miller appointed Carley to the court in 1993. Justice Carley retired from the bench in 2012 after serving as Georgia’s 29th Chief Justice. Carley is survived by his wife, Sandy, and his... Read More »
In a surprising move on Monday, the conservative majority Supreme Court publicly shared doubts about President Trump’s plan to exclude illegal immigrants from the Census count. The US Supreme Court was reviewing President Trump’s contentious directive to exclude all illegal immigrants in the culling of current Census data. With an... Read More »
An antitrust suit by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) involving Apple and Google has lived up to its name, with “trust” as a major point of contention. Attorneys for Apple requested that confidential secrets shared with the DOJ be hidden from its competitor’s in-house attorneys, in spite of the... Read More »
On November 16, 2020, the United States Supreme Court ruled that a geriatric prison in southeast Texas will not be required to enact basic safety measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among its inmates. This lawsuit was filed on March 30, 2020, brought by the inmates at the Wallace Pack... Read More »
After a Manhattan judge ruled that a New York couple’s $325 million award in an asbestos-related mesothelioma tort case against Johnson & Johnson (J&J) was excessive, plaintiffs stipulated to a nearly two-thirds reduction in damages, rather than having to face a new trial. In a 61-page opinion issued November 11,... Read More »
Legal advocates and homeless families filed a class-action lawsuit against the City of New York in a Manhattan Federal Court on November 24th. The lawsuit argues that the City failed to provide reliable internet access for children attending distance learning in homeless shelters. As the nation's largest school district prepares... Read More »
On November 23, 2020, the US Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against a family’s appeal to grant permanent residence, and therefore a path to citizenship, to their 17-year-old adopted child under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (INA). The decision upholds the amendments made to the Act in... Read More »
She failed the Florida Bar Exam. Twice. She set up two phony law firm websites with international offices and decorated them with stock photos of her “partners.” She gave the law firm a name (not hers) and rented office space. She impersonated a law school friend and appeared in court... Read More »
Peter Rafael Dzibinski Debbins, a former member of the Army Special Forces, pleaded guilty on Wednesday, November 18, to disclosing classified information sensitive to national defense to the Russian Federation during his active-duty status in the U.S. Army. Debbins was arrested on August 17, 2020, and is scheduled to be... Read More »
Two Texas area men have been criminally charged with trying to sell 50 million nonexistent N95 respirator masks to a foreign government. The U.S. Department of Justice shared on Tuesday that the men did not actually have the masks in their possession and were selling them at five times their... Read More »
A phone call helped crack a murder case that went unsolved for over 25 years. The phone call was made by none other than the killer himself, Johnny Dwight Whited. Whited, 53 resides in Trinity, Alabama, and is living with a terminal illness. Whited made the phone call to the... Read More »
On Thursday, November 12, 2020, First Circuit Court of Appeals Judges Jeffrey R. Howard and Sandra L. Lynch upheld the 2019 district court ruling that Harvard University does not discriminate by race in its admission processes. Judge Juan R. Torruella, who died in October, had also been on the panel.... Read More »
On Monday, November 16, 2020, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act. This sports bill will allow U.S. officials to prosecute people involved in doping and doping conspiracies at international sporting competitions. This bill unanimously passed the House of Representatives on October 22, 2019, and now will need... Read More »
West Virginia’s Attorney General, Patrick Morrisey, filed a lawsuit in March of 2019 alleging that the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston was operating schools and camps in violation of the West Virginia Consumer Credit and Protection Act. The AG’s allegations included that the Diocese failed to keep the public safe by not... Read More »
