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With the Wisconsin Supreme Court's ideological balance up for grabs and politically charged cases potentially on the docket, Tuesday's race for an open high court seat is already the most expensive judicial election ever, sparking concerns about corruption and public perception of the court, according to experts.
The overuse of plea bargains in criminal prosecutions is undermining the criminal justice system's integrity, exacerbating its racial inequality and creating "perverse incentives" to prioritize expediency over fact-finding, according to an American Bar Association report issued Wednesday.
The Federal Circuit on Tuesday wiped out Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's $185 million attorney fee award in $3.7 billion class litigation over the Affordable Care Act, following heated oral arguments in which an attorney for the firm was scolded for being "aggressive."
The Federal Circuit on Tuesday wiped out Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's $185 million attorney fee award in $3.7 billion class litigation over the Affordable Care Act, following heated oral arguments in which an attorney for the firm was scolded for being "aggressive."
The chair of Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP's Newark, New Jersey, office was physically aggressive toward an opposing attorney during a settlement conference in a suit over a mortgage agreement, that attorney told a New Jersey federal magistrate judge.