https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Courts Copyright 2025 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US Thu, 01 May 2025 23:14:48 +0000 https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2333521?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2333521 A Georgia Congressman on Thursday introduced legislation that would ensure misconduct complaints against judges would still be investigated, even if the judge has resigned, retired or even died. Thu, 01 May 2025 22:34:58 +0000 https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2333520?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2333520 Several transgender service members and recruits told the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to reject the Trump administration's bid to lift a federal judge's order prohibiting implementation of the Pentagon's ban on transgender military service, claiming the policy is so deeply rooted in animosity that it won't survive judicial inspection. Thu, 01 May 2025 20:38:00 +0000 https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2332757?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2332757 The House Judiciary Committee approved along party lines a proposal they say will prevent "frivolous lawsuits" by barring courts from enforcing contempt citations for failure to comply with injunctions if the plaintiff has not posted a bond for litigation costs. Thu, 01 May 2025 20:21:00 +0000 https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2333522?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2333522 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security turned to the nation's highest court on Thursday, asking the justices to pause a nationwide injunction blocking the agency from undoing the Biden administration's extension of temporary protected status for Venezuela during its appeal. Thu, 01 May 2025 18:56:57 +0000 https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2332362?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2332362 Two Oklahoma district attorneys have urged a federal court to throw out Cherokee, Chickasaw and Choctaw nation lawsuits challenging the district attorneys' attempts to prosecute tribal citizens for crimes committed in Indian Country, arguing that their complaints wrongly seek to overturn a state criminal court opinion. Thu, 01 May 2025 16:59:26 +0000 https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2331812?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2331812 Thousands of attorneys gathered at rallies across the country on Thursday to oppose what they called the Trump administration's "assault" on the rule of law — a rare public demonstration for the normally buttoned-down and risk-averse professionals that they said "sounds the alarm of a looming constitutional crisis." Thu, 01 May 2025 16:53:24 +0000 https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2333174?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2333174 The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a recommendation by an ethics watchdog that a state judge should only be reprimanded and fined for improper campaign donations and discussions about her own reelection campaign, saying she should also get a 10-day suspension. Thu, 01 May 2025 16:51:20 +0000 https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2332613?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2332613 The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday held off for now a vote to call for a hearing on Ed Martin's nomination for U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, a move Democrats say would allow more time to review his record and, they hope, convince enough Republicans to help them block his nomination. Thu, 01 May 2025 16:50:17 +0000 https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2333131?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2333131 A Colorado state judge resigned on Wednesday amid a disciplinary complaint accusing him of misusing his position to help a former client that he exchanged sexual and flirtatious texts with, telling an independent panel in a brief that it no longer needs to hear a disciplinary case against him. Thu, 01 May 2025 16:21:14 +0000 https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2332742?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2332742 As former workers pursue severance pay claims against the social media platform X in Delaware federal court, presiding over the matters is a circuit judge with a record of digging into challenging legal questions and delivering blunt appraisals of attorneys' arguments. Thu, 01 May 2025 15:56:31 +0000 https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2332880?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2332880 Twenty former federal district and circuit judges on Thursday launched a coalition to speak out about and defend the federal judiciary as political impeachment attempts against judges increase and the federal courts system faces heightened scrutiny. Thu, 01 May 2025 15:55:56 +0000 https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2332687?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2332687 A Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission panel has "reluctantly, but of necessity" recommended the removal of a Florida judge found to have made inappropriate comments about abortion amid an election campaign, stating that the judge showed a lack of remorse for her actions in testimony before the panel. Thu, 01 May 2025 14:53:51 +0000 https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2333002?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2333002 The NFL retirement plan's appeal of a $1.86 million award of attorney fees and expenses to a former player fighting for additional disability benefits will go forward, after a panel of the Fifth Circuit rejected his bid to stop it. Thu, 01 May 2025 13:45:14 +0000 https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2332330?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2332330 Connecticut's Criminal Justice Commission has appointed Connecticut Appellate Court Judge Eliot D. Prescott to serve as the state's next inspector general, who investigates police use of force incidents and police or correctional officers' failure to intervene or report an incident. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 21:41:35 +0000 https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2332553?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2332553 The former mother-in-law of slain Florida law professor Dan Markel asked Wednesday to delay her trial on charges she helped orchestrate his murder, citing copious discovery produced in recent weeks by the prosecution. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:53:08 +0000 https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2331353?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2331353 A provision to transfer the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust functions to the U.S. Department of Justice was stripped out of the House Judiciary Committee's budget reconciliation bill on Wednesday. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:29:28 +0000 https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2331742?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2331742 The Muscogee (Creek) Nation continues to fight attempts by Tulsa County, Oklahoma, its sheriff and a district attorney to assert criminal jurisdiction on the tribe's reservation, telling a federal court that the Tenth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court support its jurisdictional authority. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:49:37 +0000 https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2331973?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2331973 President Donald Trump's nominee for director of the U.S. Marshals Service, Gadyaces Serralta, stressed to Democrats on Wednesday that the agency's mission to protect judges and enforce court orders would not change under his leadership despite increasing criticism of the bench from the president and other policymakers. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:46:35 +0000 https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2331942?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2331942 A Texas appellate court revoked its prior ruling and backed a lower court ruling that allowed an attorney acting as a receiver in one suit to take over as counsel in another suit for a company belonging to real estate investor Nate Paul, permanently dismiss its claims and counterclaims, and reach a settlement. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:44:33 +0000 https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2332256?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2332256 After prosecuting headline-grabbing cases as the U.S. attorney in South Florida, like that of a man accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump and of a former U.S. diplomat who admitted to spying for Cuba, Markenzy Lapointe is settling back into private practice at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.