New York urged the Second Circuit on Wednesday to find that stopping a nonprofit focused on bankruptcy education and the South Bronx pastor it's working with from advising low-income debtors represents a content-neutral regulation on who can practice law that does not violate the First Amendment.
Attorneys cleared of any wrongdoing in New York federal court in the death of renowned psychiatry professor Judith Brook in their capacity as court-appointed temporary guardians urged the Second Circuit this week to affirm a lower court's holding that temporary guardians are not state actors subject to federal jurisdiction.
Justice Milton A. Tingling, the county clerk of New York County and commissioner of jurors, has urged a federal judge to dismiss a racial bias challenge from a Black public defender against the Manhattan court system's exclusion of people with felony convictions from juries, arguing that the attorney fails to allege the city applied the exclusion with a discriminatory motive or applied it in a discriminatory way.
The trustee overseeing Chinese exile Ho Wan Kwok's Chapter 11 case has filed an adversary complaint against Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP in a Connecticut bankruptcy court, saying Kwok transferred almost $2 million in prepetition funds and more than $80,000 in post-petition funds to the firm through his shell companies.
Republican Georgia State Rep. Charlice Byrd introduced a resolution to impeach Fani T. Willis on Friday, one day after Donald Trump joined a motion to disqualify the Fulton County district attorney from the sweeping racketeering case she is pursuing against the former president and more than a dozen others in connection with the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.