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Sidney Powell Avoids Disbarment As Judge Refuses To Consider Misnumbered Exhibits... Seriously.

(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)The lede in most media coverage about this case is that Judge Andrea Bouressa dismissed the Texas state bar case against Kraken Queen Sidney Powell based on "numero...

Feb 2023

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3 Takeaways From The Lex Machina 2023 Patent Report

[photo1]It is Lex Machina Patent Report time. I covered the release last year, as well as in 2021. As always, I highly recommend that readers register for the report and give it a read, as there may b...

Feb 2023

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Steve Bannon Goes Shopping For New Lawyers Even As His Old Lawyers Are Suing Him For Unpaid Bills

(Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)If you get convicted, you don't have to pay your lawyers, right? Isn't that the rule?That appears to be what deplorable podcaster Steve Bannon believes, accordin...

Feb 2023

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Reddit should have to identify users who discussed piracy, film studios tell court

Film studios that filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against a cable Internet provider are trying to force Reddit to identify users who posted comments about piracy.The lawsuit was filed in 2021 a...

Feb 2023

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How Appealing Weekly Roundup

(Image via Getty)Ed. Note: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman's How Appealing blog, the Web's first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories...

Feb 2023

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Jones Day Took Home Over $100 Million Thanks To A Controversial Bankruptcy Tactic

[photo1]Great attorneys are supposed to think outside the box -- netting their clients advantages others may not have seen. But that doesn't mean the innovations will be without controversy. Take the ...

Feb 2023

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Agrees To Apologize, Pay Millions To Former Aides

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Controversial Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is looking to put at least one of the legal issues he's facing behind him. Acc...

Feb 2023

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Trump Alleges Conspiracy To Collate And Cobble By Bob Woodward And Publisher Simon & Schuster

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Fresh off getting slapped with a million dollars in sanctions for filing garbage civil tort suits, Donald Trump, the OG vexatious litigant, is back for another r...

Jan 2023

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Donald Trump Beats Hasty Retreat From Federal Courts After Epic Sanctions Smackdown

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Last week Judge Donald Middlebrooks of the Southern District of Florida slapped Donald Trump and his lawyer Alina Habba with a million dollars in sanctions for f...

Jan 2023

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Lawsuit: Twitter stopped paying rent at headquarters after Musk took over

Twitter is being sued for alleged nonpayment of rent by the owner of its US headquarters building in San Francisco, the latest of several lawsuits saying Twitter stopped paying bills after...

Jan 2023

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BENCHSLAP: Trump And His Lawyers Fined $1M For Filing Garbage RICO Suit Against Hillary Clinton

[photo1]This is not what you want to read when you're on the pointy end of a sanctions order:
This case should never have been brought. Its inadequacy as a legal claim was evident from the start. N...

Jan 2023