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In Withers v. City of Aberdeen, decided yesterday by Judge Sharion Aycock (N.D. Miss.), both sides had filed briefs containing citations to nonexistent cases; the briefs were drafted by out-of-state counsel, each of whom had local counsel (as the rules generally require). Withers was represented by Wilson with Ridgeway as local counsel; the City was represented by Williams with McClinton as local counsel. I focus here just on the sanctions imposed on local counsel: Ridgeway is a Mississippi licensed attorney who works for Christian & Small, LLP. She sponsored Wilson’s pro hac vice admission in this case and serves as…
From al Ghashiyah v. Oster, decided last Thursday by Wisconsin Court of Appeals Judges JoAnne Kloppenburg, Jennifer Nashold, and Chris Taylor: Al Ghashiyah is the only brother of James C. Charles Casteel. Casteel died in October 2024. Thomas Oster, a longtime friend of Casteel, filed a petition for the formal administration of Casteel’s estate and filed Casteel’s will with the circuit court. Casteel’s will bequeaths the contents of his estate to certain friends and family members. The will does not bequeath any of Casteel’s estate to al Ghashiyah. Al Ghashiyah filed a motion requesting that the court apply Islamic law…
A Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit released today said evidence was destroyed or went missing regarding the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos, a federal immigration detainee whose death a medical examiner later ruled a homicide by asphyxiation. The GAO reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) filed a “discrepancy report” in February noting that the private contractor that previously operated the Camp East Montana detention facility in Texas had failed to provide the agency with use-of-force and death reports regarding a January death of a detainee by use of force. The GAO report does not name the detainee, but the…
In 2009, the Supreme Court decided Ricci v. DeStefano. The Justices reversed Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s indefensible ruling against the Frank Ricci and the other firefighters. But the Court stopped short of deciding whether New Haven’s attempt to avoid liability for disparate impact violated the Equal Protection Clause. Justice Scalia concurred to explain the Court was merely postponing the inevitable question: But the war between disparate impact and equal protection will be waged sooner or later, and it behooves us to begin thinking about how—and on what terms—to make peace between them. Nearly two decades later, with a very different Supreme Court,…
Editor’s note: This is a developing story. The U.S. launched strikes against Iran Tuesday evening in response to the downing of an Army Apache helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz a day earlier, United States Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on social media. “The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression,” CENTCOM said. Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox President Donald Trump told ABC News that the response to the downed helicopter “should be very strong, very powerful, and that’s what this one is.” Initial reports indicated an Iranian drone had struck the helicopter but…
On one day, my healthy 86-year-old grandmother and I were waltzing through Paris in matching berets. Three days later, we were riding in an ambulance to an Austrian hospital after she fainted. I tried to communicate with German-speaking paramedics through a phone translation app. I called my parents in the middle of the night for her medical history. After months of preparation, a COVID-19 infection threw our carefully planned trip off course. Thankfully, my grandmother has recovered from her international emergency stay. But, our detour taught me a lot about the dos and don’ts of a healthy vacation: Do plan…
On this segment of Free Media, Senior Editor Robby Soave and Daily Caller Editor in Chief Amber Duke discuss recent comments by Vice President J.D. Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R–La.) questioning California’s vote-counting process. Their skepticism comes amid renewed Republican criticism of the state’s slow election results, which California officials say are largely due to mail-in ballots, signature verification, and rules allowing properly postmarked ballots to arrive after Election Day. Source link
“Most Americans don’t realize they live under an expansive surveillance regime that likely violates their constitutional rights. Every purchase, deposit, and transaction, from the smallest Venmo payment for a coffee to a large hospital bill, creates a data point in a system that watches you—even if you’ve done nothing wrong.” – Katie Haun, MIT Review Have You Heard of the CLARITY Act? If you missed it, you’re one among many. Reporting on the subject has been slim. No one wants to talk about it. Certainly, we don’t. But we will. Because it’s important. We’re referring to the Digital Asset Market Clarity…
A mix of restaurants, cultural institutions and high-rise residential living makes Midtown Atlanta one of the city’s most attractive neighborhoods. Lately, however, a series of violent incidents has shaken residents and left many wondering if city officials can keep us safe. Read Full Article ⟶ Source link
Imagine you start an asteroid mining company. It’s tough at first. You know that profits are uncertain and, if they do ever materialize, it will be in five years at the earliest, maybe even ten. It takes a long time to find investors willing to trust you because several similar ventures with almost identical business models have already gone bust and the investment horizon is far too long for many. Nevertheless, you persevere, and you manage to convince a few investors. You hire astronomers to identify asteroids with valuable metals such as platinum. You send unmanned probes to several near-Earth…