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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 that would make it difficult to track proceeds, prosecutors alleged. He allegedly negotiated a 4% f...

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 opposition to Bush nominee Raymond Kethledge.  To make room for White’s nomination, the White House is ...

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, was convicted of using his power of attorney to take money from the widow for campaign contributio...

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 support them. “We remain committed to advancing the goal of having greater equity in the legal profes...

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 Register, Law360 and a press release. The suit alleges that Yale is violating Title VI of the Civil...