This post was originally published on the RLUIPA Defense blog by Evan Seeman, Esq. and Madeleine Laffitte, Esq. of Robinson Cole and is reposted with permission.
On December 30, 2022, a district court dismissed a Catholic high school’s RLUIPA challenge, granting summary judgment on all claims in favor of the City of Madison, Wisconsin and various other city officials (the City). As ruled by the court, the City did not discriminate against Edgewood High School of the Sacred Heart, Inc. on the basis of religion when it was denied Edgewood’s latest conditional use permit application for outdoor lighting at the…
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner has been subpoenaed by a Missouri state auditor to hand over documents as part of an ongoing audit of the city of St. Louis as Gardner faces a separate effort to have her removed from office.
Scott Fitzpatrick issued a subpoena against Gardner and the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office, asserting that Gardner’s office missed multiple deadlines of a document request.
Subpoenaed documents include bank statements, credit card statements, policy guidelines and other information. Fitzpatrick says his office originally requested these documents on Jan. 23 with a deadline of Feb. 14, according to Fox…
Former US Attorney Barbara McQuade argued that Donald Trump’s attempts to prevent his former Vice President Mike Pence from giving testimony will “fail” and will only serve to delay the special counsel’s investigation.
Pence was subpoenaed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on February 9, after negotiations between his team and special counsel Jack Smith reportedly broke down. The former vice president is being compelled to testify before a grand jury about Trump’s involvement in the attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The former vice president is considered a key witness in the case, as one…
An attorney for former President Donald Trump who worked to overturn his loss in the battleground Wisconsin has been reappointed by the state Supreme Court’s four conservative justices to a second term on a committee that advises judges on judicial conduct.
Jim Troupis’ reappointment to the panel was approved Thursday on a 4-3 vote by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, with all three liberal justices dissenting, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
FILE: Trump campaign attorney Jim Troupis speaks during a Senate hearing to discuss election security and the 2020 election process on Dec. 16, 2020, on Capitol Hill.
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UCLA Extension’s annual Land Use Law and Planning Conference is the leading networking event and source of information on California land use legislation, case law, and the emerging issues that frame land use and development practices in the nation’s most popular state.
The program’s unique cross-disciplinary approach explores the full range of perspectives drawn from land use planning, legal, development, and environmental communities, and demonstrates how these factors influence the day-to-day work of planners, developers, environmental regulators, and attorneys .
Now in its 37th year, the UCLA Extension conference offers a big-picture view of land use law and planning practice,…
A former lawyer in the Trump administration’s Department of Justice was presented with an award Saturday from the Federalist Society for her work and expertise on the “administrative state” and separation of powers, which has been used to fight what Republicans say is the Biden administration’s executive overreach.
Jennifer Mascott, now an associate professor at the Scalia School of Law at George Mason University, won the Joseph Story Award, which recognizes lawyers who have “demonstrated excellence in legal scholarship and who have made a significant public impact in a manner that advances the rule of law in a free society.”…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee man on death row who was forced to act as his own lawyer is seeking a new trial, claiming multiple violations of his constitutional rights.
Howard Willis was sentenced to death in 2010 for the murders of teenage newlyweds, 17-year-old Adam Chrismer and 16-year-old Samantha Leming Chrismer, both of Chickamauga, Georgia. The boy’s head and hands were found by fishermen in Boone Lake in northeastern Tennessee in October 2002. The bodies of both teens were found a few days later in a storage unit rented by Willis’ mother in Johnson City.
Willis had nine lawyers…
Some large law firms, citing economic headwinds and slowing demand, are tightening their belts by shrinking their attorney ranks and eliminating professional staff.
The law firms that have cut associate attorneys in recent months include Shearman & Sterling, Goodwin Procter and Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. Davis Wright Tremaine said it would eliminate professional staff, but not attorneys.
The decline in demand for legal work last year followed years of growth driven by a boom in mergers and acquisitions work, prompting the hiring of sheets accompanied by six-figure bonuses for even lower-level attorneys. Firm expenses increased in 2022, colliding with…