Another 5-4 close one. Who needs the World Cup when you got Supreme Court justices brawling it out over the Constitution? (OK, I do, also). Anyway, in another contentious split decision, the left side gets a rare win as “Swing Man” Kennedy joins Judge Ginsburg’s opinion in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, decided yesterday. Quick […]
Someone needs to speak with Shawn Chapman Holley, Lindsay Lohan’s criminal defense attorney out in LaLa Land. Now Holley, is an experienced high-profile lawyer at one of California’s most powerful entertainment firms. But apparently Lindsay Lohan is on auto-pilot. On Monday, May 24, a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge ordered her to wear a […]
OK, let’s break out all the sports analogies: “The Supreme Court sacked the NFL… ” , “The NFL took a hit yesterday . . .” ” The Supreme Court blind sided the NFL . . .” Now that we have that out of the way, here’s what happened. In what will be considered a […]
Those of us who have gone through raising middle schoolers or who teach for a living know that of all the classes in the world, teaching Middle School Health is as thankless a task as you can get assigned to. Hormones raging, sexual experimentation occurring regularly, cliques, mean girls, immature boys: a recipe for disaster. […]
Many of my litigation clients are owners of small to mid-size businesses that find themselves thrust into court for the first time. These folks are often shocked to see how time consuming and expensive the litigation process can be. So after years of counseling them through the court system, I have observed that there a […]
Emel McDowell was 16 years old in 1990 when he was arrested for the murder of Jonathan Powell. From the moment of his arrest, he has maintained his innocence. Yesterday, in Brooklyn Supreme Court, before Judge John Ingram, I secured his release during a hearing where we were trying to establish his innocence. The Kings […]
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