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1 week ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Maia Spoto |Stephanie Gleason |Patrick Gregory
California State Bar investigators are in touch with former clients of L.A. attorney Gloria Allred’s firm—famous for taking on high-profile, feminist cases—the first step of a winding, secretive attorney discipline process that has drawn legal and regulatory scrutiny in other instances. The allegations against Allred come against the backdrop of cases against former lawyers Tom Girardi and Michael Avenatti, who have each been convicted and disbarred.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Ryan Autullo |Patrick Gregory
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton opened an investigation into 33 potential noncitizens who allegedly voted in the November 2024 general election, his office announced Tuesday. The investigation follows an executive order from President Trump directing the Department of Homeland Security to offer states free access to a database that verifies a person’s immigration status.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Megan Crepeau |Patrick Gregory |Cheryl C. Saenz
Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan on Friday was sentenced to 90 months in prison and a $2.5 million fine on federal corruption convictions, punctuating the extraordinary downfall of a politician once thought nearly untouchable. At a sentencing hearing in which prosecutors repeatedly invoked Illinois’ long history of public corruption, the judge called back to the state’s most famously forthright politician. “The Abraham Lincolns of the world are few and far between.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Alex Ebert |Alex Clearfield |Patrick Gregory
The Florida Supreme Court should allow people without an American Bar Association-accredited JD to take the state’s bar exam, according to comments submitted to a state workgroup. Records obtained by Bloomberg Law show comments submitted by practitioners and an online law school to the workgroup—formed after Trump administration threats to end ABA law school accreditation due to DEI—were all in favor of broadening access to Florida’s exam.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Ryan Autullo |Patrick Gregory
Migrant college students in Texas are asking a federal court for permission to appeal a bombshell ruling that ended in-state tuition for noncitizens after two decades. Students for Affordable Tuition in a filing Wednesday say it’s only fair to let them appeal after the Trump Administration and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) joined forces on June 4 to quickly end the tuition rate before any-third party had an opportunity to object.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Alex Ebert |Patrick Gregory |Stephanie Gleason
Naples, Fla., can require a drag performance be performed indoors and restricted to adults, a federal appeals court ruled Friday—one day before the event was scheduled to take place in a public park. A divided Eleventh Circuit reversed the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida’s order blocking local restrictions on a drag show as part of the Naples Pride Fest this weekend.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Megan Crepeau |Patrick Gregory |Alex Clearfield
A former Girardi Keese attorney Thursday pleaded guilty to criminal contempt related to the firm’s failure to distribute millions of dollars in settlement funds to victims of a fatal plane crash. David Lira, son-in-law of disgraced attorney Tom Girardi, pleaded guilty to a count alleging he violated a court order directing them to send the victims their money.
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4 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Ryan Autullo |Patrick Gregory
A Texas judge will finally get an answer on whether she can refuse to marry same-sex couples for religious reasons, five years after the state’s judicial conduct commission warned her that it reflected poorly on the judiciary. Judge Dianne Hensley of Waco, Texas, is entitled to a court’s review of her practice for choosing which weddings to officiate, a Texas appeals court ruled Friday.
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1 month ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Megan Crepeau |Patrick Gregory
A Seventh Circuit judge seemed skeptical of a college football player’s antitrust challenge to National Collegiate Athletic Association eligibility policies at oral arguments Wednesday. The three-judge panel wrestled with antitrust allegations and eligibility rules in a college-sports landscape vastly changed by “name, image, and likeness” guidelines that allow student-athletes to make money from their public personas.
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1 month ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Allie Reed |Patrick Gregory |Alex Clearfield
Businesses have no fundamental right to cultivate and sell marijuana, the First Circuit held Tuesday in a case attempting to unwind the federal Controlled Substance Act. The court rejected attorney David Boies’ argument on behalf of Massachusetts marijuana businesses over the federal law banning cultivation, transportation, and sale of state-regulated marijuana.
