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1 week 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 week 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 week 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.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Ryan Autullo |Stephanie Gleason |Patrick Gregory
In the wake of Elon Musk’s Tesla and SpaceX moving from Delaware to Texas, another technology-centered aviation company is considering putting its faith in the Lone Star state and its new laws aimed at attracting corporations. Archer Aviation Inc., a publicly-traded electric air taxi manufacturer that incorporated in Delaware seven years ago, is prioritizing Texas for a potential relocation, the company’s general counsel, Eric Lentell told Bloomberg Law.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Alex Clearfield |Patrick Gregory
Internet giants Google, Meta, Amazon, and Reddit will argue Tuesday before a New York court that they can’t be held liable for publishing racist content that allegedly pushed a gunman to kill 10 people in a 2022 mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Alex Ebert |Patrick Gregory
Florida Circuit Court Judge Nancy Jacobs, under scrutiny for calling her opponent a “bigot” in a heated campaign, is resigning from the bench. Jacobs (D), a Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Judge in Hillsborough County, will leave the bench on May 31 and has submitted her resignation to Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), she said in a notice filed with the Florida Supreme Court Friday. “I step aside with my integrity intact and my voice unwavering,” Jacobs said in a statement.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Alex Ebert |Alex Clearfield |Patrick Gregory
A landmark prosecution seeking federal criminal obstruction charges against a Milwaukee County judge must go through the courtroom of a jurist who was disciplined for openly criticizing a rightward swing on the US Supreme Court. Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan’s case was randomly assigned to 85-year-old Lynn Adelman, a US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin judge and former state senator nominated by Bill Clinton in 1997.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Alex Ebert |Alex Clearfield |Patrick Gregory
A landmark prosecution seeking federal criminal obstruction charges against a Milwaukee County judge must go through the courtroom of a jurist who was disciplined for openly criticizing a rightward swing on the US Supreme Court. Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan’s case was randomly assigned to 85-year-old Lynn Adelman, a US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin judge and former state senator nominated by Bill Clinton in 1997.
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4 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Maia Spoto |Patrick Gregory |Stephanie Gleason
The Menendez brothers will face a judge May 13 and 14 to determine if they should be resentenced for the 1989 killings of their parents, after a judge denied a request to withdraw a former district attorney’s sentencing recommendation despite a new risk assessment report. The green light is the latest chapter in the brothers’ resentencing saga after a series of stops and starts. Several family members are expected to testify next week on Erik and Lyle Menendez’s behalf.
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1 month ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Ryan Autullo |Patrick Gregory
Texas lawmakers gave mixed signals in their bid to become the country’s king for corporate governance, proceeding with a proposal to prevent the kind of shareholder challenge that caused Elon Musk and Tesla to flee Delaware, but backing off a plan to expand the state’s fledgling business court system. The shareholder bill is off to Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) desk after the Texas Senate gave it final approval Wednesday.
