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In case prosecutors didn't get the message from previous corruption rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court's Thursday decision unanimously nixing the "Bridgegate" convictions serves as a stark reminder that not every misdeed by a public official amounts to a crime, no matter how unsavory the politics, Continue Reading

The U.S. Supreme Court has held that the annotations contained in Georgia’s legal codes are ineligible for copyright protection, and attorneys say the decision could have unintended consequences. In a 5-4 decision, the justices on April 27 said the ruling was based on the principle that Continue Reading

Requirements for using federal coronavirus loans are complicated and confusing for owners. “It’s chaos,” one lawyer said. The $660 billion Paycheck Protection Program was meant to extend a lifeline to small businesses battered by the pandemic, allowing them to keep employees on the payroll. But Continue Reading

President Trump and his supporters seized on newly disclosed documents to argue Thursday that his former aide Michael Flynn was railroaded into pleading guilty as part of the FBI investigation into the 2016 campaign and Russian interference, but legal experts said the material is unlikely to Continue Reading

Just days before the U.S. Supreme Court is set to rule on the Bridgegate case, the attorney for David Wildstein, the mastermind behind the scheme, claims he struck a secret deal with federal prosecutors that could now get his client off the hook and clear his name. "When you plead guilty, there Continue Reading

The Jersey for Joe team, led by Rob Garrison, Marilyn Davis, Michael DuPont and Guillermo Artiles, has partnered with former New Jersey State Bar President John Keefe, Jr. to launch Jersey Lawyers for Joe. The group is still in formation and plans to build out a county-by-county cohort that will Continue Reading

Three patients who had tested positive for COVID-19 became the first to use the Air Force’s “transportation isolation system.” They were loaded Friday into biocontainment units inside a plane and flown nearly 4,000 miles from Afghanistan to a U.S. base in Germany. Last weekend’s transport was not Continue Reading

The White House's stonewalling of an investigation into the Pentagon's JEDI cloud contract has prompted renewed allegations of bias from Amazon as it protests the deal, but experts say the company faces a steep climb to show the deal was unfair. But while Trump's efforts to "[go] out of his way, Continue Reading

Franklin Turner is quoted in a Yahoo Finance article on Amazon’s lawsuit over the Pentagon awarding the $10 billion JEDI cloud contract to Microsoft, alleging that the president’s dislike of Amazon influenced the decision to award the contract to Microsoft. Continue Reading

In response to the financial hardship that 2020 law school graduates would face due to the indefinite postponement of the bar exam, Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court Stuart Rabner will allow students who have not taken and passed the bar to practice law in New Jersey. It’ll have a Continue Reading