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The North Carolina Supreme Court’s opinion in State v. Singleton, No. 318PA22, __ N.C. __ (2024), brings about a transformation of North Carolina indictment law. The case “ends [a] centuries old saga” in deciding that the “common law jurisdictional indictment rule” is “no longer the law in this State.” Slip. op. 3, 40. My colleague,…
WHAT WE’RE READING By Ellena Erskine on Aug 26, 2024 at 8:50 am Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read: Recommended Citation: Ellena Erskine, The morning read for Monday, August 26, SCOTUSblog (Aug. 26, 2024, 8:50 AM),…
On August 6, “X Corp.,” the company formerly known as Twitter (and controlled by Elon Musk), filed a wide-ranging federal-court antitrust lawsuit against the World Federation of Advertisers (“WFA”) as well as a number of large, international corporations. The basic claim made in X’s complaint is that the WFA and corporations who belong to it,…
Former Skadden Associates Are Turning Up The Heat In The Kitchen: Read up on how the cookie crumbles! Yale Law Has A Simple Path To Redemption: Still won’t be easy. Show Me The Money!: Lawyers from this swing state are sending money to Kamala. Stop, Do Not Pass Go: Disqualified lawyer kept on filing motions….
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(Image via Getty) Ed. Note: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman’s How Appealing blog, the Web’s first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing. “Republicans’ New, Dangerous Attempt to Break the Election: Even if the Supreme Court rejects this plea, the GOP will…
As a part of the Legal Marketing Association’s partnership with Above the Law, each month we’ll share a roundup of insights and intel from Strategies & Voices, the online trade journal dedicated to the craft of legal marketing. Spanning the LMA’s Body of Knowledge domains for Marketing Management and Leadership, articles in this edition help…
(Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. As a prosecutor, when I had a case, I charged it not in the name of the victim, but in the name of “The People.” For a simple reason. In our system of justice, a harm…
Kraken lawyer Stefanie Lambert continues to break new ground in the legal profession. Although not, perhaps, in the way she’d hoped. The attorney for Overstock weirdo Patrick Byrne already managed to get herself arrested at the conclusion of a motions hearing in March. Lambert was there to represent the prodigious conspiracy theorist in a defamation suit…
Kamala Harris is receiving overwhelming support to her campaign. Michelle Obama’s diss speech and Barack Obama’s very dignified joke about Donald Trump being a size queen have been the high-profile attention getters, but true politics runs on something deeper than great oration. It runs on money! Red or blue, the most important metric to follow…