Alex Ebert

The Supreme Court weakened a key piece of the Voting Rights Act, making voting discrimination cases dramatically harder to bring in federal court. Cases citing Section 2 of the Act plummeted 60%, a @BLaw analysis shows. Here's a 🧵on our reporting news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/vot…

ELEC reports are out. Here are a few lawmakers who reported at least $50k in govt contracts. There are more, I just don't have time to look them all up. Someone needs to cross reference all financial disclosures with all pay-to-play reports

Is it time to bring the "Major Questions Doctrine" into immigration law disputes? The Eleventh Circuit leans that way in a case that could force a circuit split over Trump's mandatory migrant detention policy. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/ele…

Honored to be part of a reporting team in consideration for a Neal Award on this groundbreaking analysis. Capturing the impact of US Supreme Court decisions is beyond difficult, but it was a blast working with our amazing data crew on this big project. nealawards.siia.net/2026-neal-awar…

Is this the end of school transgender notification policies as we've known them? That was the question we put to litigators across America grappling with the US Supreme Court's landmark emergency docket opinion this week giving parents expansive rights. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/sch…

JUST IN: Trump DOJ proposes surprise rule aiming to let Attorney General Pam Bondi suspend state bar investigations into alleged misconduct by DOJ lawyers. Very unclear if there'd be legal authority for the AG to intervene. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/tr…

Gruesome ruling, here: njcourts.gov/system/files/c…

Pushing an arbitration provision on a widower grieving after a funeral service misplaced his dead wife's body was enough to find the contract unconscionable, a New Jersey appeals court ruled Monday. Whether the contract had fair terms didn't matter given the circumstances:

On an unrelated note. Remember to not take notes on your criminal conspiracy: youtube.com/shorts/9rU21tJ…

Prosecutor references to "The Wire" doomed a guilty verdict in New Jersey, with state high court unanimously criticizing pop culture references that could unfairly frame criminal trials. The ruling: aboutblaw.com/bk1t

Here's the opinion: aboutblaw.com/bkZ2

Should moms get extra $$$ in a divorce as compensation for bearing children and the health impacts of pregnancy and birth? A New Jersey divorcing mother is trying to make that claim. The state appeals court blocked her case, saying a settlement prevented it.

It's been a quarter-century since a federal appeals court extended free speech rights to computer code. That is until this week when a landmark Third Circuit ruling expanded those protections in a ghost guns design case with implications for big tech. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/gho…

In a massive win for Johnson & Johnson's defense of $20 billion in talc-related lawsuits a New Jersey court has kicked one of the top plaintiff firms Beasley Allen off of the case saying it crossed ethical lines by associating with a former J&J lawyer. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/joh…

Breaking: DeSantis just drew a lawsuit in the Florida Supreme Court arguing that congressional redistricting plans violate state legislative authority. The liberal National Redistricting Foundation and @EliasLawGroup are behind the case. More to come

So many incredibly talented former colleagues and friends at @washingtonpost who spent their lives, even risked their lives, every day. Allow me to say, Bloomberg is hiring. I found a welcoming, thriving home here almost 6 months ago. And you can too. bloomberg.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Bloombergindus…

The three judges issued the decision "Per Curiam"--but these are their names:

It's one of those cases where, if the government employee's conduct is allegedly too reprehensible, then the government can't be sued for it. Even if the actions taken by employees were normal parts of their job (or neglecting normal parts of their jobs)--state off the hook.

Florida prison guards allegedly set up an inmate to be raped as retaliation, then refused to move him out of a cell after he was raped. Three judges today tossed his complaint, saying the guards weren't acting within their employment. Sovereign Immunity. aboutblaw.com/bkyT

How "bloodthirsty" does Ron DeSantis want his last originalist Florida Supreme Court pick to be? Candidates for his nomination differed today, responding to a vetting panel's questions about how they'd handle issues like precedent, party presentation. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/flo…

Dialog between the bench and the attorneys indicated prosecution knew about this fact, and left it out. State blamed defense for not taking the DNA analysts deposition--which he wouldn't have much reason to do unless he had this fact.

Withholding a key fact in a DNA report led to tossing a molestation verdict in Florida. Appeals court today ordered new trial over discovery abuse: not disclosing male DNA was found in a victim's shorts until opening statements in a St. Lucie Cnty. case: aboutblaw.com/bkur