487 ABA Journal Obituaries articles.
May 1, 2023 8:58 AM CDT
William “Bill” Horton, a longtime leader in the ABA Health Law Section, died Tuesday from cancer. “There are those lawyers whom the ABA changes, and there are those who change the ABA. Bill Horton is one of the latter,” ABA President-Elect Mary Smith said in a tribute.
Mar 10, 2023 9:00 AM CST
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday removed a case from its argument calendar in which 19 states sought to keep in place an immigrant…
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Ex-prosecutor gets prison time for bulls proposal
Jeffrey Siegmeister, the former state attorney for Florida’s Third Judicial Circuit, was sentenced Tuesday to 40 months in federal prison, partly for…
Oct 21, 2022 2:40 PM CDT News Roundup Oct 14, 2022 2:43 PM CDT Challenge to Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law gets tossed A federal judge in Tallahassee, Florida, has tossed a challenge to Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law, which critics have…
Oct 7, 2022 3:30 PM CDT Sep 14, 2022 10:16 AM CDT Steve Bannon convicted for contempt of Congress Jurors deliberated for less than three hours before convicting Steve Bannon, a former adviser for former President Donald Trump, on two counts of…
Jul 22, 2022 3:28 PM CDT Jun 6, 2022 9:57 AM CDT Apr 6, 2022 12:10 PM CDT A high-profile Philadelphia lawyer who represented sex-abuse victims died Saturday in an apparent suicide, according to his law firm partner. Slade McLaughlin was described as “a force of nature” by personal injury firm partner Paul Lauricella. Apr 5, 2022 12:35 PM CDTWeekly Briefs: Another BigLaw merger; SCOTUS is ‘more of an advocacy group,’ Biden says
Weekly Briefs: Judge tosses challenge to ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law; gun-makers win dismissal of Mexico suit
Former Whitewater independent counsel Ken Starr dies at 76
Ken Starr, the former Whitewater independent counsel and an appeals judge, has died at age 76. Starr died Tuesday from surgery complications at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center.
Weekly Briefs: Bannon convicted for contempt of Congress; suit targets Skittles ingredient
Former judge is killed at his home; suspect, a former defendant, said to have other targets
Updated: A former Wisconsin judge found dead from gunshot wounds at his home Friday had once sentenced the suspect in the shooting to six years in prison.
Judge dies at 61 after feds raid his home
A judge in Erie County, New York, killed himself Tuesday, less than two weeks after a raid on his home by federal and state investigators.
‘We need to sometimes decompress,’ says lawyer about his high-profile partner’s death