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News Roundup Afternoon Briefs: Lawyer accused of laundering cash from undercover agent; Justice Barrett lists home for nearly $900K   Lawyer is charged with laundering cash for undercover agent Prominent Dallas lawyer Rayshun “Ray” Jackson of the Jackson Law Firm has been charged with laundering money acquired from an undercover agent who said the money came from drug trafficking. Jackson allegedly suggested setting up a shell corporation and a cash business like a coin laundry or car wash...

Print this article Michigan’s Senate delegation has blocked Michigan nominees to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit as payback for the Senate’s failure to confirm President Clinton’s nominees to the Sixth — Helene White (who is married to Sen. Carl Levin’s cousin), in particular.  Now the Senators and Bush Administration have cut a deal to fill two vacancies on the Court.  In return for nominating White to the Sixth Circuit, the Senators have dropped their opposi...

News Roundup Afternoon Briefs: Judge’s husband heads to prison; Stephen Miller’s new legal group to sue over Biden policies   Husband of appeals judge goes to prison Suspended lawyer Charles McCullough, the husband of a Pennsylvania appeals judge, reported to prison Tuesday after he was convicted of stealing $50,000 from an elderly widow. McCullough is married to Patricia McCullough, who is running for a seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Charles McCullough, a former county councilman...

News Roundup Afternoon Briefs: 5 Jones Day plaintiffs drop claims; no immunity for cop who shocked girl during seizure   Only 1 plaintiff remains in Jones Day pay-bias suit Five of six former associates suing Jones Day for gender bias have dropped their claims. The move follows a decision by all the plaintiffs in December to drop class action pay-bias claims in the suit. The five plaintiffs said in a statement Thursday they dropped the class claims after receiving payroll data that did not sup...

Group sues Yale over race-conscious admissions and seeks cert in Harvard suit   Image from Shutterstock.com. Students for Fair Admissions has filed a lawsuit challenging race-conscious admissions policies at Yale University less than a month after the U.S. Department of Justice dropped a bias suit that it filed against the school during the Trump administration. The nonprofit group’s Feb. 25 suit claims that Yale discriminates against Asian American and white applicants, report the New Haven...

Lawmakers expressed concerns about the U.S. Supreme Court’s shadow docket of emergency opinions during a hearing Thursday by a House judiciary subcommittee.

March 8, 2021 at 3:17 PM Shares6 A courtroom in the Pioneer Courthouse in Portland, Oregon (photo by David Lat). Ed. note: This column originally appeared on Original Jurisdiction, the new Substack publication from David Lat. Judicial Notice is a weekly review of notable legal news that appears each Saturday. You can register to receive Judicial Notice and other updates from Original Jurisdiction through this signup page. As Original Jurisdiction hits the two-month mark, I’m happy to report ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has written her first opinion, a concurrence in a decision Friday night that allowed California churches to host indoor religious services with some restrictions.

Constitutional Law Police demand for ID required valid investigative stop, 4th Circuit rules in partial win for Black motorist   Image from Shutterstock.com. Police officers who arrested a Black man after he refused to identify himself violated his Fourth Amendment rights. But they have qualified immunity because they relied on a county ordinance that made it a crime to refuse to provide an ID to officers, a federal appeals court has ruled. The Feb. 4 decision by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

News Roundup Afternoon Briefs: Biden lifts transgender military ban; Boston doesnt have to fly Christian flag, court says   Biden lifts transgender military ban President Joe Biden signed an executive order Monday that lifts the Trump administration’s ban on transgender people in the military. “What I’m doing is enabling all qualified Americans to serve their country in uniform,” Biden said as he signed the order. (The New York Times, the Associated Press, the Washington Post, the exec...