/pulse/courts?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Courts Copyright 2025 Â鶹´«Ã½. en-US Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:28:11 +0000 /pulse/courts/articles/2348758?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/courts/articles/2348758 The U.S. Supreme Court halted discovery Friday into whether the Department of Government Efficiency is an agency subject to the Freedom of Information Act, but left the door open to future, more tailored inquiries about the inner workings of the initiative. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 17:53:05 +0000 /pulse/courts/articles/2350531?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/courts/articles/2350531 JAMS has welcomed a retired Los Angeles County Superior Court judge to its roster who spent more than three decades on the bench, where he presided over individual matters, as well as complex civil litigation from mass torts, labor, toxic contamination and insurance disputes. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:50:27 +0000 /pulse/courts/articles/2340320?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/courts/articles/2340320 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Friday that the Department of Government Efficiency could obtain unlimited access to Social Security Administration data on millions of Americans while a legal dispute over privacy concerns plays out. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:39:46 +0000 /pulse/courts/articles/2349994?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/courts/articles/2349994 New Jersey-based Seeger Weiss LLP is seeking to help protect judges with a $500,000 donation to an institute at Duke Â鶹´«Ã½ School that is named in honor of the murdered son of a federal judge in the Garden State. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:34:54 +0000 /pulse/courts/articles/2350328?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/courts/articles/2350328 A former senior in-house counsel for Wells Fargo Advisors won his bid to make the bank arbitrate claims he absconded with confidential information and coordinated a mass resignation of other staff when he left to work at a competing advisory firm. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:30:36 +0000 /pulse/courts/articles/2350567?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/courts/articles/2350567 Many current state bar character and fitness tests fail to identify bad actors, and at the same time, certain aspects of the queries can hurt efforts to increase diversity in the profession, according to panelists at the American Bar Association's 2025 Virtual Equity Summit on Friday. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:30:29 +0000 /pulse/courts/articles/2350133?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/courts/articles/2350133 An undivided U.S. Supreme Court issued five unanimous rulings this week, weighing in on the burden majority-group plaintiffs must meet in discrimination cases, what counts as a religious organization for purposes of an employment tax exemption, and whether Mexico can sue American gun companies for their alleged role in cartel violence. Here, Â鶹´«Ã½360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:24:58 +0000 /pulse/courts/articles/2335079?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/courts/articles/2335079 The U.S. legal industry added 1,100 jobs in May, holding steady in the midst of economic uncertainty, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:19:49 +0000 /pulse/courts/articles/2350405?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/courts/articles/2350405 The Trump administration has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a Massachusetts federal judge's order halting massive job cuts at the U.S. Department of Education, arguing that the judge's finding that almost 1,400 employees must be reinstated to ensure the department's continued operation "has no basis in reality." Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:12:17 +0000 /pulse/courts/articles/2350394?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/courts/articles/2350394 Texas' four-year time limit on attorney discipline applies to "reciprocal" discipline cases, in which a lawyer is sanctioned in Texas after being similarly sanctioned in another state, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:22:25 +0000 /pulse/courts/articles/2350493?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/courts/articles/2350493 Just months after rejoining Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York is leaving the firm to join Jenner & Block LLP. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 12:32:43 +0000 /pulse/courts/articles/2350471?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/courts/articles/2350471 A onetime Cramer & Anderson LLP partner was sentenced Friday to a seven-year prison term after being convicted of first-degree manslaughter for fatally shooting an attacker in the parking lot of his rural Litchfield, Connecticut, law firm, although his incarceration will be suspended after 2½ years. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 09:31:15 +0000 /pulse/courts/articles/2350030?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/courts/articles/2350030 The legal industry began June with another action-packed week as BigÂ鶹´«Ã½ firms expanded their presence and offerings. Test your legal news savvy here with Â鶹´«Ã½360 Pulse’s weekly quiz. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:10:40 +0000 /pulse/courts/articles/2350082?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/courts/articles/2350082 Counsel for OneTaste co-founder Nicole Daedone on Thursday told a Brooklyn federal jury that Daedone's provocative teachings involving "orgasmic meditation" don't matter to the forced labor conspiracy charges she and her deputy face, unlike the free will of those who say they were victimized. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 20:56:53 +0000 /pulse/courts/articles/2350015?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/courts/articles/2350015 An Indiana state appeals court Thursday upheld a defense win in a medical malpractice trial despite a juror's post-verdict revelation that she had previously heard of a defense expert witness. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:42:43 +0000 /pulse/courts/articles/2349510?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/courts/articles/2349510 Friedman Kaplan Seiler Adelman & Robbins LLP said it has hired one of the Southern District of New York's most experienced financial crimes prosecutors who has tried 14 cases to verdict over his decade-plus career there. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:41:08 +0000 /pulse/courts/articles/2349378?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/courts/articles/2349378 New York-based Sher Tremonte LLP has expanded to the nation's capital, opening a new office in Washington, D.C., led by a former U.S. Department of Justice chief and staffed by a former U.S. attorney who prosecuted crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:38:19 +0000 /pulse/courts/articles/2350001?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/courts/articles/2350001 Senate Democrats have vowed to do whatever they can to defeat a provision in the budget reconciliation that would limit federal courts' ability to hold federal officials in contempt, and some Republicans are wary of it as well.  Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:36:06 +0000 /pulse/courts/articles/2349959?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/courts/articles/2349959 Florida attorneys who are charged with a felony will soon be given the opportunity to respond before the issuing of an interim suspension under a new rule created by the Florida Supreme Court Thursday. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:33:55 +0000 /pulse/courts/articles/2349813?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/courts/articles/2349813 A D.C. federal judge allowed a city attorney's discrimination and retaliation lawsuit to proceed to discovery Thursday, rejecting the D.C. government's motion to toss the claims that a city administrative law judge discriminated against Black women and paid the plaintiff attorney less than her male peers.