Recent Updates
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Dems force 1-week delay on panel vote on Supreme Court pick
Practice Focuses 03/23/2017Senate Democrats on Monday forced a one-week delay in a committee vote on President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, who remains on track for confirmation with solid Republican backing. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Judiciary Comm...
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High EU court: workplace headscarf ban not discriminatory
Practice Focuses 03/23/2017Private businesses in Europe can forbid Muslim women in their employ from wearing headscarves if the ban is part of a policy of neutrality within the company and not a sign of prejudice against a particular religion, the European Court of Justice sai...
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UK court says income threshold for foreign spouses is lawful
Practice Focuses 03/09/2017Britain's Supreme Court says the government is entitled to set a minimum-income threshold for people wanting to bring foreign spouses to the country, a measure introduced to ensure immigrants won't draw on public welfare funds. But the court says the...
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Supreme Court to hear case about party in vacant DC house
Practice Focuses 01/23/2017The Supreme Court will hear a case in which people arrested for having a party in a vacant house sued police for violating their constitutional rights and won. The justices said Thursday they will review lower court rulings in favor of 16 people who ...
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Supreme Court won't hear challenge to FBI fitness test
Practice Focuses 10/23/2016The Supreme Court won't hear a dispute over whether a physical fitness test for FBI special agents is biased against men. The justices on Monday turned down an appeal from an Illinois man who failed the test after completing 29 out of 30 untimed push...
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Court in NYC upholds insider trading conviction
Practice Focuses 09/09/2014S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the conviction of Zvi Goffer and two others in a case the government had once touted as the biggest insider trading prosecution in history. In all, more than two dozen defendants were convicted, including a one-time...
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Local law firm welcomes two new additions
Practice Focuses 12/03/2010The law firm of Cunningham, Mitchell & Rocconi welcomes two attorneys, Elizabeth "Sissy" Rankin and Roman Hankins. Rankin returns to the firm after serving as a General Sessions and Juvenile Court judge in Montgomery County.Hankins returns to his...
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David Boies Urges ABA Members
Practice Focuses 08/09/2010David Boies challenged America’s lawyers to “bring the rule of law to its full fruition here in this country … to fulfill the goals and lofty rhetoric of our founding fathers,” as the keynote speaker at the Opening Assembly o...