Hugh Murray was quoted in a Law360 article Mask-Averse Workers Add Extra Hurdle As Employers Reopen saying “As we reopen in the COVID-19 world, some employees are certainly likely … to say 'I don't want to wear the mask' or 'I don't want to do this safety thing,'" Murray said. "If two or more of Continue Reading
Supreme Court Overturns Convictions in ‘Bridgegate’ Scandal That Had Ensnared Christie Allies
A unanimous Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the convictions of two of former New Jersey governor Chris Christie’s political allies in the “Bridgegate” case, saying the federal government went too far in prosecuting them for retaliating against a political rival. “The message delivered in Continue Reading
Kelly: SCOTUS ‘Bridgegate’ Decision Ends ‘Ugly Chapter’ In ‘Very Long Nightmare’
The U.S. Supreme Court has thrown out the convictions of two central figures in the 2013 “Bridgegate” lane-closing scandal. It’s been more than six years since traffic patterns were purposely altered on the George Washington Bridge in what prosecutors said was a plot to punish the Democratic Continue Reading
Bridgegate Ruling Shows Not All Dirty Politics Is a Crime
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
Attorneys React to High Court’s Copyright Ban for Annotated State Laws
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
FBI Notes on Michael Flynn Unlikely to Convince Judge He Was Entrapped, Legal Experts Say
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
Bridgegate Mastermind David Wildstein May Have Struck a Secret Deal to Get off the Hook
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
Jersey ‘Lawyers for Joe’ Launches to Help Protect the Vote Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic
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
Military Medevac Raises COVID Questions for Contractors
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
White House Stonewall Claims Won’t Aid Amazon JEDI Protest
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