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4 days ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Ryan Autullo |Stephanie Gleason

Texas judges, among the lowest paid in the country, are getting their first raise in 12 years after a breakthrough deal struck by lawmakers Monday, the final day of the biennial Legislative session. The compromise calls for a $35,000 annual raise, which also triggers higher pensions for the lawmakers that approved it. The link long has been a politically sensitive obstacle to increasing judge pay, and one that nearly killed the proposal this weekend. The bill, HB 40, now heads to Gov.

4 days ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Maia Spoto |Stephanie Gleason

Tom Girardi will be eligible for a prison sentence after a federal judge found Monday his dementia didn’t meet criteria to require a sentence in an in-patient psychiatric facility. The former lawyer, who became famous after he was portrayed in the movie “Erin Brockovich” and appeared alongside his estranged wife Erika Jayne on the “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” testified briefly before Judge Josephine L. Staton in the US District Court for the Central District of California.

1 week ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Stephanie Gleason |Jay-Anne Casuga

A divided federal appeals court upheld a freeze on President Donald Trump’s purge of federal workers while a broader legal dispute plays out on appeal. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in a 2-1 decision Friday rejected Trump’s emergency request to stay a preliminary injunction issued by a lower court judge, who said the president’s order was likely unconstitutional without the cooperation of Congress.

1 week ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Stephanie Gleason

A divided federal appeals court upheld a freeze on President Donald Trump’s purge of federal workers while the case plays out on appeal. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in a 2-1 decision on Friday rejected Trump’s emergency request to stay a preliminary injunction issued by a lower court judge, who said the president’s order was likely unconstitutional without the cooperation of Congress.

1 week ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Maia Spoto |Stephanie Gleason

The University of Southern California water polo coach tied to the “Varsity Blues” admissions scandal will get a new trial on a fraud charge but remains convicted on a bribery charge, a panel of First Circuit judges ruled. It’s impossible to tell if the jury reached its guilty verdict on Jovan Vavic’s honest services wire fraud charge using a recently invalidated legal theory, the judges said in a Friday opinion.