The city of Detroit asked a Michigan federal judge to impose sanctions on and refer for disbarment Sidney Powell, L. Lin Wood and other attorneys involved in challenging the Wolverine State's 2020 general election results.
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- President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that imposes stricter stock disclosure requirements on federal judges, including the creation of a searchable online database of judicial financial disclosure forms.
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- Veteran election-law attorney Marc Elias launched a law firm after a decadeslong career cementing his status as a go-to lawyer for Democrats. His litigation team is tackling more than 25 disputes around voting and redistricting ahead of the 2022 midterms. law360.com/pulse/articles…
- Social media posts by Donald Trump have led to an ongoing deluge of death threats and antisemitic slurs against a law clerk and the New York judge overseeing the ex-president's civil fraud trial, a court security official said. law360.com/articles/17696…
- Prince Harry's lawyers kicked off his fight against MGN Ltd. in a London court Monday, saying he was hacked on multiple occasions to drive sales of the U.K. publisher's tabloid newspapers.
- BREAKING: A Manhattan federal judge indicated Monday he will throw out Sarah Palin's libel lawsuit against The New York Times over a 2017 opinion piece, saying that no reasonable juror could return a verdict in her favor. law360.com/articles/14645…
- A D.C. federal judge blocked a U.S. State Department policy that gave diversity visas lower priority, directing the government to "undertake good-faith efforts" to process the 2021 visa lottery cohort before a Sept. 30 deadline. law360.com/articles/14204…
- BREAKING: Major League Baseball and its franchises illegally conspired to scrap 40 minor league clubs, according to a lawsuit Monday that aims to end the baseball antitrust exemption granted by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1922. law360.com/articles/14503…
- As Microsoft hashes out video game licenses to appease regulators scrutinizing its plan to buy Activision Blizzard for nearly $70 billion, industry sources believe its strategy to show it doesn't have monopolistic intentions could seal the mega-deal. law360.com/articles/15871…
- The Sixth Circuit denied a rehearing request from Sidney Powell, L. Lin Wood and other lawyers for Donald Trump who were hit with $150,000 in fees after a judge found their lawsuit challenging the results of the 2020 presidential election to be frivolous.
- The U.S. Senate confirmed Rachael Rollins as the next U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, ending a bruising battle over her nomination in a 51-50 vote. law360.com/articles/14466…
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