Checkbook journalism might be a staple of supermarket tabloid the National Enquirer—but the magazine’s interactions with Donald Trump were not standard operating procedure, its former publisher told jurors Friday. “In this case, did you suppress stories to help a presidential candidate?” Assistant District Attorney Joshua Steinglass asked prosecution witness David…

Ex-White House attorney Deborah Misir has joined the legal challenge against New York’s 4-month-old law that allows any registered voter to get a mail-in ballot, regardless of the reason. A partner with Cullen and Dykman, Misir is set to argue on Monday in the Appellate Division, Third Department against the…

The mayor of a town in South Florida has sued critics in a Florida state court for $10 million in damages for libel over their claims he accepted bribes in exchange for political favors. Stephan Lopez of the Stephan Lopez Law Firm represents the plaintiff, Mayor Roberto Martell of the…

A New York appeals court on Thursday reopened a Manhattan court officer’s workers’ compensation claim that said he pitched in with rescue, recovery and cleanup efforts from the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Following the compensation board’s rejection of the claim in June 2021,…

Michael E. Gertzman, a former litigation co-chair of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York and previous management committee member, died on Wednesday. He was 60. Paul Weiss, which could not immediately confirm the cause of death, stated that it was a “tragic and sudden passing” in an online memorial.

A federal judge weighing in on an insurance dispute predicted whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court would hold that a regular use exclusion of an automobile insurance policy violates the state’s motor vehicle law. In an April 23 opinion, U.S. District Judge Malachy E. Mannion of the Middle District of Pennsylvania predicted…