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A bipartisan group of legal experts – including a federal appeals court judge and a former U.S. solicitor general – are throwing their support behind 18-year term limits for U.S. Supreme Court justices in a bid to reduce partisanship and improve the judiciary’s reputation, Nate Raymond reports.
The 11-member group includes 7th Circuit Judge Diane Wood, a onetime Supreme Court contender herself, along with Harvard Law Professor Charles Fried, who served as U.S. solicitor general under former President Ronald Reagan. Akhil Amar, a prominent constitutional law professor at Yale Law School, also signed on.
In a report released by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the group argued that Congress should end life tenure among the justices through a statute, which the group said could be legally implemented without violating the Constitution.
Read more here about what the group says can be done to reform the court.
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- Proskauer Rose said it is close to working out a settlement with its former chief operating officer, whom it accused in a lawsuit of stealing a trove of confidential information and trying to recruit other firm employees to a competitor. Jonathan O’Brien, who was fired in December as he was poised to join rival firm Paul Hastings, has denied he planned to take secrets to his new employer.
- Jenna Ellis, a former lawyer for Donald Trump, pleaded guilty to helping the former U.S. president’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in the state of Georgia and agreed to testify against Trump if called upon. Ellis is the third member of Trump’s legal team to reach a plea deal since Thursday.
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Thats how many states — plus Washington, D.C. — are suing Facebook parent Meta Platforms and Instagram, accusing them of fueling a youth mental health crisis by making the social media platforms addictive. More than 30 of the states filed a complaint together in Oakland, California, federal court, while the rest filed on their own. Meta could face civil penalties of $1,000 to $50,000 for each violation of various state laws — an amount that could add up quickly given the millions of children and teens who use Instagram.
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Latham & Watkins has just been sucked into the swirling vortex of vitriol between California businessman Steve Sugarman and short-seller Muddy Waters. Alison Frankel has the story of a new sanctions motion by Muddy Waters that accuses Latham of allowing its client Sugarman to run amok with confidential information that was supposed to be under a protective order.
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“Whatever number Mr. Trump told us.“
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—Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, who testified in New York state court that he manipulated the values of the former U.S. president’s real estate properties to match what Trump wanted them to be. Testifying in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ civil fraud case against Trump, Cohen said Trump tasked him and other former Trump Organization executives with doctoring financial statements to boost the value of the company’s holdings. Trump, who has denied wrongdoing, attended court to hear the testimony live, report Jack Queen and Luc Cohen.
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- The 3rd Circuit will consider whether to uphold a judge’s ruling blocking parts of a recently passed New Jersey law restricting where people in the state may carry guns, a test of Democratic-led states’ efforts to pass gun control measures in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year that expanded gun rights nationwide.
- U.S. District Judge Diane Gujarati will hold a hearing in the criminal case against OneTaste founder Nicole Daedone and director of sales Rachel Cherwitz after the government raised questions about whether their defense attorneys from Steptoe and Alston & Bird are conflicted through their ties to OneTaste, the self-proclaimed “orgasmic meditation” business, and other affiliated entities. Daedone and Cherwitz were charged in June with orchestrating a forced labor conspiracy, which included instructing their members to perform sexual acts for “freedom and enlightenment.” They have pleaded not guilty.
- The Texas Supreme Court will hear arguments from state judge Dianne Hensley, who is seeking to revive her religious rights lawsuit against the State Commission on Judicial Conduct. The Texas judicial ethics panel sanctioned her in 2019 over her refusal to officiate at same-sex marriage ceremonies. Hensley, a Texas justice of the peace in Waco, will argue a state appeals court was wrong to dismiss her claims as a “collateral attack” on a public warning, which the commission issued against her.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- Yum Brands’ Taco Bell announced that it resolved its dispute with a restaurant that had trademarked “Taco Tuesday,” successfully ending the chain’s legal and marketing campaign to “liberate the phrase for restaurants nationwide.” Taco Bell and Gregory’s Restaurant & Bar said in a press release that the Somers Point, New Jersey, establishment would abandon its trademark covering the phrase in the state following Taco Bell’s challenge to its validity at the U.S. PTO. (Reuters)
- Cryptocurrency lender BlockFi emerged from bankruptcy, nearly 11 months after it was swept away by the turbulence in the cryptocurrency industry following the collapse of FTX. (Reuters)
- A bipartisan group of 18 attorneys general led by Connecticut has backed two minor league baseball teams that are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down Major League Baseball’s longtime exemption from federal antitrust laws. The state coalition, which includes the District of Columbia, argued that they have “regularly enforced their antitrust laws against corporations and cartels whose business crosses state lines.” (Reuters)
- Apple asked a U.S. judge to reject a subpoena that could require the company to reveal corporate secrets tied to its failed effort to carry the National Football League’s “Sunday Ticket” programming, now on Google’s YouTube TV. Apple said the effort by residential and commercial Sunday Ticket subscribers to subpoena information, and to question senior executive Eddy Cue, was “unduly burdensome.” (Reuters)
- A jury in Texas awarded video-doorbell company SkyBell more than $45 million in damages after finding that home-security company Vivint’s doorbell camera systems infringe two SkyBell video monitoring patents. Jurors also found that Vivint’s infringement was willful, which could lead U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant to multiply the award. (Reuters)
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- Morrison & Foerster hired Valerie Dahiya, the leader of Perkins Coie’s D.C., office and its securities trading and market practice, as a partner. (Reuters)
- Baker McKenzie added Erika López as a private equity and M&A partner in Chicago. She previously was at Kirkland. (Baker McKenzie)
- Lowenstein Sandler brought on New York-based lawyer Michael Saarinen as an investment management partner and co-chair of the fund formation and structuring group. He arrives from Shearman & Sterling. (Lowenstein Sandler)
- BakerHostetler added three healthcare transactional and regulatory lawyers from Norton Rose Fulbright in Dallas and Chicago. The group includes partner Jim Wiehl, who will be a co-leader of the firm’s healthcare industry team. (BakerHostetler)
- Pillsbury picked up investment funds partner Gawain Hughes in London. He most recently was at Morgan Lewis. (Pillsbury)
- Barnes & Thornburg hired environmental lawyer Scott Watson, who advises on regulatory and litigation matters, as a partner in Grand Rapids. He previously was at Warner Norcross + Judd. (Barnes & Thornburg)
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