AG Rokita to face attorney disciplinary commission

The state’s top law enforcement officer, Attorney General Todd Rokita, will face the judgment of the Indiana Supreme Court’s Disciplinary Commission. FOX59 received confirmation of the matter before the commission this afternoon. A woman at the Washington law offices of Schaerr Jaffe acknowledged that managing partner Gene Schaerr had been retained by the Indiana Attorney […]

Why does Gov. DeSantis need the power of executive privilege?

Gov. Ron DeSantis doesn’t want you to know the names of the people helping him vet high-level judicial candidates. It might, his lawyers said, subject those consultations to unwanted scrutiny. The governor doesn’t trust regular Floridians with that kind of information. He doesn’t think it’s any of your business, even though it’s routine government business, […]

Preparing for Non-Compete Litigation: 2023 Update

Thomson Reuters Practical Law has released the 2023 update to “Preparing for Non-Compete Litigation,” co-authored by our colleague Peter A. Steinmeyer. Following is an excerpt (see below to download the full version in PDF format): Non-compete litigation is typically fast-paced and expensive. An employer must act quickly when it suspects that an employee or former […]

What climate laws? Voters are clueless about Biden’s top achievement

President Joe Biden and his team are fanning out across the country to tout the climate-change-fighting, job-creating, money-saving benefits coming from the Democrats’ landmark Inflation Reduction Act. The problem? Most Americans have probably heard more about Republican complaints that Biden is coming for their gas stoves. Biden used his platform at Tuesday’s State of the […]

James Hugh Allister and others and Clifford Peeples v the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and others [2023] UKSC 5 – UKSC Blog

On appeal from [2022] NICA 15 These proceedings challenge the lawfulness of the Northern Ireland Protocol (“the Protocol”), which formed part of the agreement between the United Kingdom (“the UK”) and the European Union (“the EU”) regarding the UK’s exit from the EU . The Protocol was given legal effect by section 7A (“section 7A”) […]