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A Florida appeals court reversed a lower court's order denying a convicted murderer's motion for postconviction relief based on newly discovered evidence, ruling Wednesday that the trial court should have held an evidentiary hearing on the evidence.

The state of Israel and an Israeli diplomat owe a property owner thousands of dollars over homeowners association violations, lease breaches and damage done to his Atlanta home when it was leased for the diplomat and her family to live in, according to a suit filed Wednesday in Georgia federal court.

A GE Vernova subsidiary urged a judge in Boston to lift his order forcing it to continue as principal contractor for a major offshore wind project Wednesday, saying recent events undermine the narrative that the $4 billion venture's success hangs on the contractor staying.

A Colorado state jury declined to award $32.5 million to the lead contractor of the reconstruction project of a 10-mile stretch of Interstate 70 in Denver, finding instead that the contractor breached a subcontract and owes its subcontractor $1.3 million in damages.

"I am not going to rubberstamp this settlement," U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan told the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and counsel for defendants Elon Musk and a revocable trust after the parties asked the court to approve a $1.5 million consent judgment that would resolve allegations Musk's trust harmed Twitter investors through a belated […]

The firm was sued in Washington, D.C., district court on Monday, and the plaintiffs are demanding at least $525 million in damages.     

Ryder, who previously oversaw legal work on Nexstar's marquee acquisitions of Media General and Tribune Media, comes back as the company battles antitrust challenges to its $6.2 billion Tegna deal.     

“Locke v. Davey is a stain on our Free Exercise jurisprudence," Judge Julius Richardson wrote. "And the Supreme Court has all but confined it to its facts. But until the court formally buries Locke, we lower court judges must keep applying it.     

The arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C Circuit represent the next litmus test for how far the Trump administration's battle against law firms in court will go.      

Global wars and instability are also affecting both dealmaking and restructuring practices, according to the latest Law Firm Financial Index.      

‘Selling' the idea of an PE-backed, MSO arrangement to rank-and-file partners may be new, but it is analogous to the process underpinning past law firm mergers.      

The global law firm also increased gross revenue by more than 8% during the fiscal year.