A federal judge on Wednesday barred a Little Rock attorney and the law firm he heads from practicing in federal court in the Eastern District of Arkansas for two years, citing their efforts to collect what the judge described as inflated attorneys fees in a class-action lawsuit settlement and drag out litigation over the issue.
The order by US District Judge Billy Roy Wilson sanctioning attorney Josh Sanford and the Sanford Law Firm was followed almost immediately by a notice of appeal.
The law firm won a class-action lawsuit filed in 2018 on behalf of Anthony Vines and Dominique Lewis,…
LONDON — Iran’s infamous hijab police, known as the “morality police,” are again patrolling the streets, Iranian authorities said.
The controversial measure was announced Sunday along with a series of other severe actions that were being taken against women just 10 months after the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody, an event that sparked bloody nationwide protests.
“The police … will take legal action against those who, unfortunately, continue to break the dressing norms regardless of the consequences of doing so,” said Saeed Montazer al-Mahdi, spokesman for the Law Enforcement Force of the Islamic Republic.Iranian morality policeman stands…
Cars cruised through Montreal streets on Saturday denouncing Quebec’s French-language law known as Bill 96.
“We’re doing it because we have to save English Montreal,” said organizer Mario Napolitano. “Bill 96 will destroy the city.”
Napolitano is part of the group Bridging Ethnic Communities, a non-profit organization that “unites Quebecers of all languages, ages, and cultures while opposing discrimination, racism and violation of freedoms imposed by the provincial government through its implementation of unreasonable language laws,” according to its website.
Napolitano said the motorcade would respect traffic laws and that the protests would be peaceful.
Bill 96 is being challenged…
Voip-Pal.Com Inc.The Western District of Texas grants VoIP-Pal’s motion for reconsideration
WACO, Texas, June 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — VoIP-Pal.com Inc. (“VoIP-Pal”, “Company”) (OTCQB: VPLM) is pleased to provide a legal update of recent developments in the current patent litigation.At a hearing held on June 12, 2023, in Case No. 6:20-CV-00272-ADA the Court granted VoIP-Pal’s motion to reconsider the Court’s final construction of the term “routing message” and construed the term to mean “a message that includes a callee user name field and a route field. ”VoIP-Pal has filed a stipulation dismissing its lawsuit against Samsung in…
James Trusty, attorney for Donald Trump, appears on “Meet the Press” in Washington, DC, April 9, 2023.
NBCUniversal | Getty ImagesAn attorney who quit the team defending Donald Trump in the criminal classified documents case said Friday he would no longer represent the former president in a separate defamation lawsuit against CNN.
The lawyer, Jim Trusty, said in a court filing that his request to withdraw from the $475 million civil suit “is based upon irreconcilable differences” with Trump.
“Counsel can no longer effectively and properly represent Plaintiff,” Trusty wrote in the filing in US District Court in Fort…
June 28 (Reuters) – New York’s attorney general on Wednesday accused nursing home operator Centers Health Care and its owners of stealing $83 million in government funds while understaffing its facilities, resulting in widespread neglect, illness and death among residents.
In a lawsuit filed in state court in Manhattan, Attorney General Letitia James sought to block four Centers nursing homes in New York from admitting new residents until they were sufficiently staffed, and to hire financial and healthcare monitors to oversee their compliance.
James is also asking the court to force Centers, its owners Kenneth Rozenberg and Daryl Hagler and…
Fire knows no borders in Canada — but firefighters’ workplace compensation for some types of cancer does. A new federal law could change that.
How provinces compensate firefighters for workplace-related cancers — the most deadly occupational risk they face — varies widely.
Provincial workplace safety boards link different cancers to firefighting, making it harder for some firefighters to access compensation.
“To have this inequality of coverage for firefighters when they get diagnosed with those illnesses is a real disservice to those who serve the community,” said Neil McMillan, director of science and research at the Occupational Health, Safety and Medicine…
A judge has ordered Steve Bannon, an ex-adviser to former President Donald Trump, to pay his former attorneys more than $480,000 for unpaid legal work.
A New York Supreme Court judge on Friday awarded legal firm Davidoff Hutcher & Citron $480,487.87 plus legal fees and approximately $4,800 in interest for what the firm said was two years’ worth of unpaid work.
The firm’s work included helping Bannon secure a presidential pardon in 2020 and defending him against ongoing fraud allegations in his former “We Build The Wall” campaign, which has a trial date set for next year.
Attorney Jeffrey Citron,…