UPDATED 5:31 AM ET Feb. 08, 2021 PUBLISHED 2:13 AM ET Feb. 08, 2021 PUBLISHED 2:13 AM EST Feb. 08, 2021
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BUFFALO, N.Y. – In late December, the administrative judge for New York’s Eighth Judicial district sent a letter to a prominent Western New York attorney, telling him to stop asking judges if they would handle a case regarding state COVID-19 restrictions.
The case involves roughly 40 barbershops and salons who are challenging an executive order that had previously required them to be closed. HoganWillig Attorney Steven Cohen is one of the primary lawyers representing the businesses.
“It has come to my attention you have been calling judges’ chambers inquiring about whether the judge would take a case you have filed in State Supreme Court,” Administrative Judge Paula Feroleto said in a December 28 letter to Cohen.
Remembering Stephan Mickle, the first African-American to earn an undergraduate degree at UF
Stephan Mickle, the first African-American to earn an undergraduate degree at the University of Florida and the second Black student to earn a law degree at UF, died Tuesday, Jan. 26. He was 76.
Mickle was a pioneer who accomplished many firsts.
In addition to being the first to earn an undergraduate degree from UF in 1965, he was among the first seven African-American students to integrate the university in 1962.
He went on to become the first African-American to establish a law practice in Gainesville in 1972. In 1979, he began a five-year tenure as the first African-American county judge in Alachua County, later achieving the same first during his eight years as a circuit court judge in the Eighth Judicial Circuit.
Illinois is one of the most populated states in the country, albeit getting smaller, according to recent U.S. census results. It s also one of the most multifaceted states.
Big cities, small towns, urban sprawl, open land Illinois has plenty of all that. It s something most of its 12 million or so residents always have known. Except perhaps some Chicagoans who never travel south of Interstate 80.
For them and for the rest of the world, here, in no particular order, are nine things for which Illinois might be known. Some are good; some aren t. While not an exhaustive list, these things all are critical for understanding what makes the Prairie State tick.
They needed to do it virtually, in light of the COVID pandemic. But the Eighth Judicial District’s Coalition of Blacks in the Courts hosted their annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his legacy Friday afternoon.
This year s theme was “The Time is Always Right to Do What is Right.” The centerpiece of the program was a screening of the documentary film
The First Rainbow Coalition, which features Black, Latino and White activists who worked together to protest police brutality in Chicago half a century ago.
State Supreme Court Justice Paula L. Feroleto, Administrative Judge for the Eighth Judicial District, presents Tasha Moore with the Sharon A. Thomas Humanitarian Award as part of Friday s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration by the WNY Coalition of Blacks in Courts.
The Law of Personal Jurisdiction Is About to Be Changed Again – What Life Science Companies Should Expect Tuesday, December 22, 2020
The concept of personal jurisdiction refers to a court’s authority to order a defendant to answer legal claims filed in a particular state. “Lack of personal jurisdiction” is a powerful defense that will not only get the defendant out of the case at the very outset but also deter any future cases brought against that defendant in the same state. The law of personal jurisdiction therefore has both legal and business impacts – it is part of a company’s risk profile and it may determine where the company should direct its marketing efforts. While that law is ever-changing and never clear, the U.S. Supreme Court’s upcoming decision in two cases involving similar personal jurisdiction issues –