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.”…
NEW YORK, Feb. 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of common stock of Atlassian Corporation (NASDAQ: TEAM) between August 5, 2022 and November 3, 2022, both dates inclusive (the “Class Period”), of the important April 4, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Atlassian common stock during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Atlassian class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=11753 or call Phillip…
Trinidad’s former deputy chief state solicitor general, Neil Byam, collapsed and died on Friday while addressing the Court of Appeal.
“We can confirm that there was a medical incident involving an attorney in court today,” the Judiciary said.
Byam, said to be in his 60s, was before Court of Appeal judges Allan Mendonca, Prakash Moosai and Gillian Lucky, shortly before 11am (local time) when he collapsed and had to be assisted by Senior Counsel Douglas Mendes who helped lower him to the floor where attempts were made unsuccessfully to resuscitate him.
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Former attorney general, Faris Al-Rawi, speaking…
An attorney for Donald Trump said the latest classified folder turned over to investigators was just that ― a folder, and a folder alone ― which the former president used to block a light that was bothering him at night.
Timothy Parlatore downplayed the folder on CNN as “one of the more humorous aspects of this whole thing” and claimed it “means nothing” because it was empty.
He said the folder marked “Classified Evening Summary” was found in Trump’s bedroom at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
“He has one of those landline telephones next to his bed, and it has…
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The petitioner had requested variances from several different zoning requirements, including the regulations for lot area, lot frontage, front yard setbacks, rear yard setbacks, and minimum and total side yard setbacks, which it needed so that it could build a single faming home. The board of zoning appeals (BZA) denied its request for area variances, however, and the Second Department confirmed the BZA’s denial on appeal. As the court explained, there was sufficient evidence to support the BZA’s determination that there would be an undesirable impact on the character of the neighborhood…
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A Massachusetts case decided in August considered the Town of Nantucket’s zoning definitions for “hot tub/spa” and “swimming pool.” Specifically, the zoning code defined a “hot tub/spa” as a structure with less than 150 square feet of surface area and more than two feet of depth, while a “swimming pool” was defined as a structure either with more than 150 square feet of surface area or containing more than 1,000 gallons of water. The definition created a dilemma because of the structure “could at the same time have less than 150 square…
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—A homicide case that went cold for more than 40 years has been solved with the help of forensic genetic genealogy technology, New Hampshire Attorney General John M. Formella said Thursday.Investigators shifted through hundreds of leads after 23-year-old Laura Kempton was found dead in her Portsmouth apartment in September 1981 by a police officer who was trying to serve her a court summons, a release from the attorney general says. An autopsy revealed she died from “massive trauma” to a side of her head.But it wasn’t until 2022 that investigators analyzed DNA samples taken from Kempton’s…
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—A Mississippi civil rights attorney alleges she was wrongfully arrested over the weekend and believes it may have been in retaliation for her advocacy work in the city of Lexington highlighting claims of discrimination by police against its Black residents.Civil rights attorney Jill Jefferson was arrested Saturday by the Lexington Police Department after filming a traffic stop of a Black motorist in the town’s square, she said.“My plan was to film footage of police falsely arresting Black people, and I just happened to get caught up in it,” Jefferson told CNN Tuesday.Recalling her Saturday arrest,…