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A Chinese investment fund that sued DLA Piper for malpractice and has since dropped its claims is now asking a New York federal judge to deny a magistrate judge's recommendation for sanctions against it and its attorneys for filing a "frivolous" complaint, arguing the analysis was "flawed" due to its reliance on defendants' selective evidence. ....
A New Jersey attorney may continue representing both a plaintiff and a third-party defendant in a suit accusing a church of violating the privacy of a former churchgoer, with a state appellate panel on Thursday upholding a lower court's ruling that no direct conflict exists between the lawyer's two clients. ....
Rudy Giuliani urged a New York state judge not to impose sanctions for alleged lies and harassment in a sexual assault suit brought by a former employee, saying her attempt to use his "other legal issues as grounds to try this case both in the eyes of the media and with the court" should not be condoned. ....
A federal judge who accidentally misstated claims against a defendant in a July 25 opinion issued an order clarifying that Anthony Martinez, the onetime top public defender in the Western District of North Carolina, had long been dismissed in his individual capacity from a suit brought by a former subordinate. ....
A federal judge in Dallas on Monday sanctioned three Southwest Airlines Co. attorneys for failing to comply with a court order after the airline lost a religious bias suit, ordering them to attend "training on religious freedom" given by Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal organization. ....