The U.S. Solicitor General’s office says it made an inadvertent error when it told the U.S. Supreme Court that federal officials routinely facilitate the return of wrongly deported immigrants. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. referred to the purported policy in a case that made it easier to deport aliens, the Wall Street Journal...
read moreSolicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. and Paul Clement appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court again on Wednesday, this time arguing over an Arizona immigration law. Both matchups concerned the scope of federal power and states’ rights, the Washington Post reports. In the lawyers’ last appearance before the court, they sparred...
read moreOne of Kentucky’s most prominent civil rights lawyers has been disbarred after failing to remit to three clients over $150,000 to which they were entitled. David Friedman had been suspended in August 2010 after complaints concerning two clients, one of whom was a Jefferson Family Court judge, reports the Courier-Journal. He...
read moreA generic drug company that claims a brand-name competitor submitted an overbroad description of its patent to the Food and Drug Administration will get a chance to challenge the description in ongoing patent litigation. In a unanimous opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court said generic companies may bring a counterclaim in a patent...
read moreA New Jersey judge has approved a plan by the state attorney general to subpoena legal-fee information concerning 20 of 34 defendants indicted in 2010 on charges they participated in a claimed $2.2 billion international gambling ring operated by an organized crime family. Although defense lawyers argued that attorney-client...
read moreAggressive efforts by admission personnel at a chain of Minnesota medical centers to collect money from patients before they are treated could violate federal law requiring hospitals to provide emergency treatment even if patients aren’t insured, the state attorney general said in a report released today. In addition to...
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