SCOTUS urged to keep sanctions for Trump allies, California bar exam sites reduced for July, Starbucks case could curb NLRB legal tool, and more ??
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??? Supreme Court urged to keep sanctions for Trump allies Powell, Wood
A group of attorneys allied with Donald Trump deserved a judge’s sanction for filing a meritless lawsuit challenging the 2020 presidential election results, a lawyer for Detroit told the U.S. Supreme Court this week.
The Michigan city urged the justices to leave in place a lower judge’s order imposing punishment on prominent conservative attorneys L. Lin Wood and Sidney Powell for their work on the lawsuit against the city and other defendants.
The lawyers' case, like many others contesting Trump's loss to Joe Biden, was quickly thrown out. The lawsuit alleged election fraud in the state on behalf of a group of Michigan plaintiffs. Powell, Wood and others who filed the case were rebuked and ordered to pay monetary sanctions over what a judge called a “historic and profound abuse” of the courts.
Detroit told the high court:
“these lawyers used the federal courts to spread lies and to undermine faith in our democracy in service to the goal of preventing the peaceful transition of power.”
The Supreme Court petition from Powell, Wood and the other attorneys challenges a ruling by the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which mostly upheld the lower court's sanctions.
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?? California bar exam sites reduced for July test
The State Bar of California is paring back the number of July bar exam locations from 13 to 10 this year amid budget woes.
The state bar’s Board of Trustees on Thursday approved a plan that eliminates the Santa Clara Convention Center from the lineup of large test sites but retains locations in San Diego and Sacramento, after considering eliminating them.
The change means there will be 10 bar exam sites across the state—six large locations and four reserved for examinees with accommodations such as extra time to take the exam or added breaks. That’s down from 13 in July 2023, with seven large sites.
The reductions are expected to cut more than $300,000 from the $4.5 million cost of administering the bar exam.
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? Starbucks case at US Supreme Court could limit labor board's key legal tool
The U.S. Supreme Court last week agreed to hear Starbucks’ appeal of a ruling that said it must reinstate seven workers at a Memphis, Tennessee, store who were fired amid a nationwide unionizing campaign, a case that could have a broad impact on the powers of the National Labor Relations Board.
The coffee chain is facing hundreds of complaints before the NLRB, the federal agency that enforces workers' rights to organize, alleging that the company illegally interfered with union campaigns or retaliated against pro-union employees.
Starbucks has denied wrongdoing but said that it had already re-hired the Memphis workers, so the immediate impact of the Supreme Court's ruling on the company could be marginal. But the stakes are higher for the NLRB, as the court will decide how high of a bar the agency must meet to win court orders requiring employers to reinstate fired workers or take other steps to address alleged illegal labor practices.
A ruling for Starbucks could impair the board's ability to seek those court orders, which are already fairly rare, experts said.
Apart from the Starbucks lawsuit, the high court is also weighing three other cases challenging the power of federal agencies to issue regulations and enforce laws in areas ranging from finance to fish conservation, that could have far-reaching reverberations.
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?? US Senate panel narrowly advances Muslim federal appellate court nominee
A U.S. Senate panel on Thursday narrowly advanced the nomination of Adeel Mangi to become the nation's first Muslim American federal appeals court judge, after Democrats accused Republican senators of subjecting him to "blatantly Islamophobic lines of questioning and insinuations."
Mangi, a partner at the law firm Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, is up for a seat on the Philadelphia-based 3rd Circuit. He was one of 19 of President Joe Biden's nominees for lifetime positions on the federal bench that the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance to the full Democratic-led chamber for its consideration.
Those nominees included three other appellate court candidates, Seth Aframe, nominated to the 1st Circuit; Nicole Berner, nominated to the 4th Circuit; and Joshua Kolar, nominated to the 7th Circuit.
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