A defendant is entitled to a new trial because his assigned counsel asked to be relieved from the case at an ex parte conference with the presiding judge, a Manhattan appeals panel has ruled. A ...

The appellate order was quashed as the appeal was dismissed solely for non-appearance without examining the grounds or recording reasons. The case was remanded for fresh adjudication in line with ...

The factional National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), led by the Acting National Chairman, Alhaji Abdulrahman Muhammed, has appealed the ex parte order of the Ibadan ...

On December 14, 2023, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (the “Court”) granted an unusual ex parte application to serve third-party discovery subpoenas on ...

Nearly two months before she was shot and killed in a Ste. Genevieve, Mo., grocery store, Melinda Domminguez sought protection. On Aug. 23, Domminguez filed a petition seeking an order of protection ...

On Wednesday, two pharmacy benefit managers filed a motion to recuse U.S. District Judge Dan Polster after he failed to order the disclosure of alleged ex parte communications. Ex parte communications ...

Supporters of the Abdulrahaman Mohammed-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday asked the National Judicial Council (CJN) to sanction Justice AL Akintola of the Ibadan High Court ...

A woman has filed for a protective order against Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Xavier Worthy following a domestic dispute that resulted in Worthy's arrest earlier this month. The woman was granted ...

In a recent judgment, which was heavily critical of the claimant bank, the BVI Commercial Court has set aside an order obtained ex parte permitting service on non-BVI resident defendants of a fraud ...