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Virus, Protests Fuel Push To Reopen Access To Justice Office
Created by the Obama administration and closed by the Trump administration, the Justice Department's Access to Justice Office was a first-of-its-kind federal effort to ensure the right to counsel and boost funding for legal aid. Amid a historic pandemic, will lawmakers reopen it? → Read More
Pro Bono Puzzle: Attys Try To Navigate Helping From Home
The coronavirus pandemic could trigger a surge in attorney volunteerism, but social distancing has created a unique challenge for pro bono efforts: How can lawyers provide free legal services remotely? → Read More
ABA Task Force Chief On Meeting The Challenge Of COVID-19
Jim Sandman, who recently stepped down from his nine-year post as president of the Legal Services Corp., America’s largest legal aid funder, is heading up an American Bar Association task force on the coronavirus outbreak. He told Law360 the pandemic could fundamentally change the way legal services are delivered in the future. → Read More
How Attys Can Help Dismantle The School-To-Prison Pipeline
As the rise of school shootings spurs an increase in spending on school police officers, experts at a recent conference said students need more due process protections when those officers handle routine disciplinary matters: Police involvement, they said, should mean attorney involvement too. → Read More
Eyes Wide Open: Bail Fight Shows Power Of Court Watchers
Amid fierce debates over the bail reform taking effect in New York this year, the need for data on its effects is raising the profile of volunteer court watchers. It’s the latest instance of how citizen court monitoring efforts can change the justice system by making it more transparent. → Read More
The Other Access To Justice Rulings That Mattered In 2019
The U.S. Supreme Court often dominates legal news headlines, but some state and appellate court decisions have even bigger impacts on access to justice. Here’s four landmark rulings from 2019 you might have missed. → Read More
Indiana Justices Start To Clarify When Forfeiture Goes Too Far
In a civil forfeiture case over an Indiana resident’s Land Rover, the U.S. Supreme Court said in February that states can’t impose excessive fines. Last week, the Indiana Supreme Court outlined a test for determining excessiveness, siding with reformers who say the justice system’s revenue incentives must be reined in. → Read More
How Local Courts Sidestep The Right To An Attorney
In some of South Carolina’s busiest courts, nonlawyer judges sentence poor defendants to jail without ever offering court-appointed counsel. An ACLU lawsuit is forcing changes in two small towns there, but similar problems persist in thousands of other locally controlled city courts across the country. → Read More
Top Legal Aid Funder Lands $15M Marked For Disaster Relief
The House of Representatives last week agreed to earmark $15 million out of a $19.1 billion supplemental disaster relief bill for the Legal Services Corporation. Unlike previous disaster acts, the money comes with no strings attached. → Read More
MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant Spotlights Access To Justice Field
A MacArthur "genius" grant awarded to prominent access to justice scholar Rebecca Sandefur recognizes an often-overlooked academic subject — and could encourage more researchers to join the field. → Read More
Countering FCC, Calif. Lawmakers Pass Net Neutrality Law
The California State Legislature passed what is considered the nation's toughest so-called net neutrality law on Friday, sending the bill to Gov. Jerry Brown's desk in hopes that a signature will restore consumer protections that the Federal Communications Commission revoked in December. → Read More
Novartis Beats Sham Pay-For-Delay Suit At 1st Circ.
The First Circuit on Tuesday granted Novartis' bid to dismiss an antitrust suit alleging it used sham litigation to extend a monopoly over the leukemia drug Gleevec, finding that a group of buyers failed to show the pharma giant had no chance of winning its case. → Read More
Fish & Richardson Won't Match Cravath Pay Scale This Time
Two years after Fish & Richardson PC decided to match the salary benchmark set by Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP, the intellectual property and litigation firm said Thursday that it has decided not to match this year’s race to boost associate compensation. → Read More
'Outercourse' Claim Fails In Stanford Sex Assault Appeal
A California appellate court rejected an former Stanford University swimmer’s argument that his previous conviction for sexual assault with intent to commit rape should be overturned because he was only engaging in “outercourse,” ruling Wednesday that there was plenty of evidence that he had more than just “dry-humping” in mind. → Read More
AstraZeneca Settles Texas Medicaid Fraud Suits For $110M
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca LP has agreed to pay $110 million to the state of Texas to settle lawsuits accusing the company of falsely marketing its drugs Seroquel and Crestor in violation of the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act, according to a Tuesday announcement by the state attorney general. → Read More
Michael Cohen Loses Bid To Gag Stormy Daniels' Attorney
A California federal judge on Tuesday denied a request by President Donald Trump’s longtime former attorney Michael Cohen to impose a gag order on his counterpart Michael Avenatti in the suit brought by adult film star Stormy Daniels, saying Avenatti’s relentless public statements may not affect the outcome of the case. → Read More
Feds Say Migrant Families Reunited, Except For 700 Kids
The Trump administration said it expected to have reunified over 1,800 migrant children with the families they were separated from at the U.S. border by the end of the day Thursday, except for 711 kids whose parents are “not eligible,” according to a California federal court filing. → Read More
BigLaw Atty Suspended For Calling Pregnancy A Delay Tactic
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP said Wednesday that it has suspended a Miami-based partner after he suggested that a pregnant opposing counsel was using her impending childbirth as a pretext to delay a product liability trial. → Read More
Google Apologizes To Gilstrap After IP Suit Sanctions Threat
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP attorneys representing Google LLC apologized Sunday to a Texas federal judge who threatened sanctions over their filing of a bid to resolve a patent suit’s claim construction disputes nearly three weeks after claim construction briefing began, which he called a “serious disregard for this court’s rules.” → Read More
Mueller Aims To Block 2 Key Arguments From Manafort Trial
Special Counsel Robert Mueller asked a D.C. federal judge Monday to prevent Paul Manafort from arguing at trial that the case against him is politically motivated or that prosecutors had previously decided not to charge him, saying such arguments are irrelevant to the jury. → Read More