I wrote about the hearing regarding the lawsuit filed by the law firm, Perkins Coie here. The Judge was clearly flabbergasted by the Executive Order targeting two big law firms. She asked at that hearing if this EO was
It is just totally weird that the Trump administration is targeting major law firms. I wrote about that odd new practice here. Pres. Trump has now targeted a handful of law firms. Two of those firms, Perkins Coie and
There are many pitfalls with forced arbitration. Georgia and John McGinty of New Jersey ran into one of those harsh pitfalls. The couple was injured in a crash of an Uber car. They sustained rib and spine fractures in March,
It is a strange world indeed in which we find ourselves. The Department of Justice, once the exemplar for competence and professionalism, now hires lawyers to political posts who do not respect the courts. At a recent hearing before Judge
In an April 7 per curiam decision, the U.S. Supreme Court said detainees seeking to challenge their detention under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act must submit a petition for habeas corpus in the jurisdiction in which they are being held.
Lawyers owe a duty of candor to the court. That means they cannot lie. Lawyers may not always tell the whole truth, but they cannot lie to a Judge. Even if that was not an ethical requirement, it is a
Among the many strange practices of the Trump administration, perhaps the strangest is publishing Executive Orders that target specific law firms. The latest such EO targets the Big law firm of Jenner & Block. Among the firm’s many supposed sins:
The Trump legal world is simply bizarro. Judge Boasberg has asked for more definitive information regarding when immigration flights took off from Harlingen, Texas airport on March 15. The question is critical to whether the Trump administration deliberately violated Judge
There are few things a lawyer can say in court more offensive than “your verbal orders” do not matter. Yet, that is essentially what a DOJ lawyer, Abhishek Kambli, told Judge Boasberg in court. On Saturday, two or more planes
