LEGAL NEWSLINE

Gregory E. Ostfeld and Edward R. Winkofsky, shareholders in global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP’s Chicago office, were named 2024 Notable Leaders in Accounting, Consulting & Law by Crain’s Chicago Business.

Clark Hill announced that Karl Frederic has joined the firm as a Member of its Real Estate team.Frederic brings to Clark Hill more than 30 years of broad-based legal experience, much of it in the New York metropolitan region.

BakerHostetler is among the changemakers in the legal profession acknowledged for again joining the Mansfield certification process.

Clark Hill announced that Roy Goldberg has joined its litigation team as a Member in Washington, D.C.

You're invited to the 19th annual Faegre Drinker M&A Conference in Minneapolis!

Jackson Kelly PLLC is pleased to announce that its Denver office has a new location at 730 17th Street, Suite 730, Denver CO 80202.

SEATTLE (Legal Newsline) - The Federal Trade Commission will not have to hand over internal documents that show how it has interpreted a federal online shopping law through the years, as a federal judge has declined Amazon's request for access.

The New York Attorney General’s Office of Special Investigation (OSI) has initiated an investigation into the death of Gerardo Santiago De Los Santos, who died on September 13, 2024, following a vehicle collision involving a member of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) in Brooklyn.

Attorney General Kaul and Office of School Safety Executive Director Meet with Wisconsin Students to Discuss School Safety

Attorney General Hilgers Leads 24 States in Opposing California’s Electric Truck Mandate

Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, of Hawaii, has been charged by a criminal complaint in the Southern District of Florida with firearms charges related to an incident at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach on September 15.

The Justice Department has selected 17 federally recognized Tribes to participate in the continued expansion of the Tribal Access Program for National Crime Information (TAP). This program provides Tribal governments with means to access, enter, and exchange data with national crime information systems, including those maintained by the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division. The announcement follows Attorney General Merrick B. Garland’s visits to Montana, New Mexico, and South Dakota, where he met with numerous Tribal and federal law enforcement officials...

Siouxland Surgery Center LLP, doing business as Dunes Surgical Hospital (Dunes), United Surgical Partners International Inc. (USPI), and USP Siouxland Inc. have agreed to pay approximately $12.76 million to resolve alleged False Claims Act violations relating to improper financial relationships between Dunes and two physician groups. Dunes is a surgical hospital located in Dakota Dunes, South Dakota. Since July 1, 2014, USPI has maintained partial ownership of Dunes through USP Siouxland, a wholly owned subsidiary of USPI. Dunes and USPI disclosed the arrangements at issue to...

Notices of comment have been issued by the Supreme Court in the following matters:

Six of eight contested provisions in the ballot language for a proposed state constitutional amendment to alter the drawing of legislative and congressional districts can remain as is, while two must be revised, the Supreme Court of Ohio ruled today.

OKLAHOMA CITY (Sept. 16, 2024) – Attorney General Gentner Drummond is urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to maintain a federal legal block on California’s Advanced Clean Fleets regulation. The regulation seeks to impose an electric-truck mandate on fleet owners, operators, and manufacturers, including trucking companies that drive one truck for as little as one day per year in California.

Following a 26-day trial, a jury in Kansas convicted Kaaba Majeed, 50, Yunus Rassoul, 39, James Staton, 62, Randolph Rodney Hadley, 49, Daniel Aubrey Jenkins, 43, and Dana Peach, 60, of conspiracy to commit forced labor. The jury additionally convicted Kaaba Majeed of five counts of forced labor. Two other co-defendants, Etenia Kinard, 48, and Jacelyn Greenwell, 45, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit forced labor.

Attorney General Anne Lopez and 41 other attorneys general jointly called on congressional lawmakers to pass legislation requiring a U.S. Surgeon General warning on all algorithm-driven social media platforms.

State of Idaho Medal of Honor Commission awarded the 2024 Medal of Honor to Officer Chris Dance of the City of Boise Police Department in recognition of his heroic acts during the 2021 shooting at the Boise Towne Square Mall, during which two people lost their lives and several others were injured.

Safe2Tell saw a 23% rise in reports for August 2024 compared to the same month in 2023, continuing an upward trend in reporting that the program saw in the previous school year.