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A New York lawyer said he has no regrets about being escorted by security from a federal appeals hearing Wednesday, after a judge on the panel admonished him for "discourteous" and "inappropriate" behavior. The astonishing audio of the hearing in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit quickly made the rounds on social media, where appellate lawyers appeared stunned—and captivated—by the rare turn of events and shared their own observations of court hearings that, to be sure, did not go as planned.

12-11-19

Todd Bank's Oral Argument at Second Circuit

A North Carolina federal trial judge's sharp commentary about dogfighting, delivered at the time he was sentencing a group of defendants, were "injudicious" and "indecorous" but did not rise to the level requiring the court to step aside for alleged impartiality, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Thursday.

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