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Virginia’s change to its policy of blended apportionment
Virginia has a longstanding administrative policy requiring blended apportionment for corporate partners of partnerships engaged in business in the Commonwealth. A Virginia Department of Taxation bulletin changed that treatment relating to non-unitary...
Judge allows extensive discovery, with 'narrow' redactions, in case over Trump plans to reshape Kennedy Center
Left inset: President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House, July 16, 2026, in Washington (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP, File). Main: The front of the Kennedy Center remains covered as US President Donald Trump attempts to add his name to the front of the...
Governor Newsom Signs the MELT ICE Act of 2026, Broadening the Basis for Peace Officer Disqualification, and Vetoes the GTFO Act
Governor Newsom has signed Assembly Bill 1627 (“AB 1627”), the Misconduct Ends Law-Enforcement Trust Act of 2026, expanding the circumstances under which prior misconduct by an immigration enforcement officer may disqualify that person from serving as a...
Lawyers Want A Watchdog To Look At Jeanine Pirro’s Reflecting Pool Case. Good Luck Finding One.
Last week, a D.C. Superior Court judge made sure the Trump administration can never again prosecute David Hearn for touching a piece of the Reflecting Pool that was already falling off. Now Hearn’s lawyers want to know how the case happened in the first place....
EEOC Wants To Keep Biglaw Diversity Probe Docs Secret To ‘Protect’ Firms It Publicly Accused
Under normal circumstances, there are good reasons why the government keeps a lid on investigation materials that don’t pan out. Accusations are not findings, and we don’t want to brand someone based on an ultimately fruitless inquiry. After all, casting...
Sotomayor: Hey Judges, Maybe We Don’t Arrest Potential Jurors For Being Late
Being late for jury duty is annoying. Getting arrested for it, in front of everyone else waiting to be questioned in a capital murder case, is something else entirely. On Monday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor used the Supreme Court’s denial of cert in Mulkey v....
Bird Watching: Hawks vs. Hawkeyes
In a display that could only be described as cartoonish, Senator Eric Schmitt thought he had Jack Smith dead to rights, before he tripped over himself and fell into a heap of mousetraps. After the special prosecutor denied attending an Atlanta Hawks game, Schmitt...
Texas Supreme Court could allow AI-generated transcripts of depositions
{mag_summary} The Texas Supreme Court is considering allowing transcripts that are generated by artificial intelligence for witness depositions. On Tuesday, the state’s high court heard…
Justices wrestle with procedural dispute over Air Force’s munition detonations in Guam
The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with a lawsuit brought against the U.S. Air Force by a group that describes its mission as protecting Guam’s environment and culture. During roughly 75 minutes of oral argument in Department of the Air Force v. Prutehi Guåhan,...