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Rep. Darrell Issa targeted Marbury v. Madison at a Federalist Society conference, saying it’s time to consider whether to “rein in” the 1803 decision at the core of judicial power. His bill to limit district judges’ injunction power gets a floor vote in days news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/r...

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Orange County Judge who texted staff "I just lost it. I just shot my wife" on night of her death gets a mistrial. He argued it was an accident. The jury deliberated for almost two weeks and was hung at 11-1 in support of a second-degree murder conviction. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/c...

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The Orange County, Calif. judge who shot his wife and texted his staff, “I just lost it. I just shot my wife,” clearly murdered her, a prosecutor told a jury Wednesday, asking them to use common sense. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/c...

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Orange County Judge Julian Bailey bullied people of color/women in his courtroom at least 10 times since 2014, new report says After complaints he tried to influence a prosecutor who saw outbursts, asking her privately if she thought he was racist & sexist news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/c...

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Ninth Circuit case law is squarely on the side of San Francisco and Santa Clara, which sued the Trump administration to protect their immigration “sanctuary” policies, legal scholars told me news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/s...

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After the Supreme Court weakened a key piece of the Voting Rights Act, voting discrimination cases are not just harder to bring to court but dramatically so, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis and experts who examined the findings. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/v...

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Blue state AGs will seek a contempt order if Trump keeps defying court orders, Delaware AG Kathy Jennings said. “Many people have asked me, what if he ignores the judges, what if he doesn’t listen…that’s really an existential question for this country.” news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/a...

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A Massachusetts federal judge has temporarily blocked prison officials from transferring a transgender woman to a men’s prison and halting her medical care news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/j...

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An LA lawyer involved in the LADWP collusive lawsuit scandal should be disbarred, state bar judge says. Michael Libman tried to hack a judge and the lawyer who took over representing customers, saying “we’re gonna castrate them both.” news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...

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If the federal government sends ICE agents to state courthouses, California’s Supreme Court is ready to intervene again news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/c...

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Southern California Edison has three days to produce data from the four circuits closest to where the Eaton fire started, a judge ordered news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/e...

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Los Angeles courts are largely moving ahead with hearings and trials as residents flee fires. 12 state court judges & 12 staff have lost homes. Jurors have had to miss court, prompting talk of a mistrial at least once. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...

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This is from a study last year: Fires like the Palisades Fire are nearly *250%* more common now than they were at the start of the decade www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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New: The partygoer asked an LA state judge to dismiss the case against Judge Mark C Scarsi over injuries at a 2023 student party at Scarsi’s home news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/p...

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New: LA federal Judge Mark Scarsi, who presided over Hunter Biden's tax case, was sued over a 2023 student party at his property. A guest alleges a drunk partygoer injured him so severely the guest had to spend two weeks in the hospital. @bloomberglaw.com news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...

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NEW: An AI company that produces training data for large language models gives workers little time to respond to hypothetical user questions about self-harm, sexual predation, and violence, a lawsuit filed today alleges. @bloomberglaw.com news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/a...

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NEW: Prosecutors want Tom Girardi to be sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for the former legal giant’s conviction on four counts of wire fraud. Sentencing hearing is Dec. 20. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/g...

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California bar applicants may receive moral character inquiries if they were disciplined over campus protests. Bar group says policy isn’t new. ACLU attorney said in public comments that assurances consideration will be politically neutral “ring hollow.” news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/c...

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Legal aid orgs demanded that CA’s top court allow an option to electronically record some hearings. A lack of public court reporters has left low-income litigants in divorce, domestic violence, conservatorship & other cases often without a way to appeal. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/c...

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Judge Victoria Kolakowski said political attacks on trans identity force her to juggle being a visible member of the community with her duty to be publicly neutral. “That is a problem that I have faced since my very first day. My existence is controversial.” news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

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Chase Strangio will make history Wednesday as the first openly transgender lawyer to argue before the Supreme Court, but no similar trailblazer is likely to follow anytime soon on the federal bench. New w/ @maiaspoto.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

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Chase Strangio will be the first out trans lawyer to argue at the Supreme Court. U.S. has no openly trans federal judges, but a handful in state & local courts. Here’s what three of them said about representation on the bench (w/ @tianaheadley.bsky.social): news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

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