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On the morning after she became a multi-millionaire, a South Carolina woman drove by the KC Mart No. 47 in Simpsonville where she bought her lottery ticket, to see if anyone was there, just in case she had made a mistake and didn’t really win.

It was the largest Mega Millions jackpot to be won by a single ticket — more than $1.5 billion — and she had seen the numbers reported on television.

“If no one was there, I would say, ‘okay, well this was a disaster, we made a mistake,’ and I’d drive home and all would be good. But as we went by the convenience store, there was every media — there was helicopters, there was every piece of media, there was locals, you know, national. I so badly wanted to get out of there, I wanted to go under the seat, I became anxious.”

That was

Asim Ghafoor, a prominent civil rights lawyer, was arrested while he was in transit through Dubai airport last month.

US citizen and civil rights lawyer Asim Ghafoor, who was convicted in the United Arab Emirates this week on money laundering charges, has been released and is on his way home.

Ghafoor, who once represented murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, was freed after paying a fine, his lawyer Faisal Gill said on Friday, adding that the US embassy in the UAE helped facilitate his release.

A court on Wednesday upheld an earlier in-absentia conviction against Ghafoor, ordering him to pay a fine of 5 million dirhams ($1.4m) but overturning a three-year jail term handed down in May.

UAE officials had no immediate comment.

Ghafoor, who lives in Virginia, was in transit through Dubai airport on July 14 when he was arrested for the in-absentia conviction.

UAE’s state news agency WAM said he

A Prior Lake man facing murder charges but claiming self-defense in a knife attack at a western Wisconsin river that killed a Stillwater teenager and wounded four others has retained a lawyer who defended Kyle Rittenhouse, acquitted of fatally shooting two people in the summer of 2020 during civil unrest in Kenosha, Wis.

Nicolae Miu, 52, who appeared by video for a brief hearing Friday, told the court he has secured attorney Corey Chirafisi of Madison, Wis.

Chirafisi won not guilty verdicts for Rittenhouse on all charges in November, after the teenager testified he acted in self-defense in a case that fueled a national debate over guns, vigilantism and racial injustice.

Miu told authorities that he acted in self-defense when several people confronted him as he searched for a friend’s lost cellphone Saturday in the Apple River. He said some of the people “produced two weapons,” hit him and

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About the author: Clifford Winston is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

A new specialization is emerging in the legal profession: autonomous-vehicle law. This innocent-sounding news is my personal nightmare, and it could soon become the nation’s. Autonomous vehicles are a game-changing technology that can solve problems the government has been unable to solve, but their adoption will be disrupted by a disinterested federal government dominated by public- and private-sector lawyers.

Former New York Major Rudy Giuliani speaks in Washington, US, May 5, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo

Aug 3 (Reuters) – FBI agents recently returned the cell phones and other electronic devices they had hidden from Donald Trump’s former attorney Rudy Giuliani, in a possible sign the investigation into whether he failed to register as a foreign agent of Ukraine could be winding down , his attorney said on Wednesday.

Robert Costello, Giuliani’s lawyer, told Reuters he has not been officially notified yet whether federal prosecutors in Manhattan are closing the investigation.

But he said the return of the devices is a positive sign for his client.

“I have not been officially told that its over,” Costello said. “It is possible they could make some starting new discovery…but we have always been confident

Samantha Markle’s legal team say they have a “viable” defamation case against Meghan Markle for comments made during her interview with Oprah Winfrey and information supplied to the authors of the biography Finding Freedom because they have “actual proof of the falsity of these statements,” Newsweek has been told.

Jamie Sasson of the Ticktin Law Group, legal counsel acting for Samantha Markle in her defamation suit, told Newsweek that the royal’s half-sister had a “viable claim” and intended to persist with the case despite a recent filing by Meghan’s lawyers disputing the basis of her complaints.

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On July 25, Meghan’s lawyers filed a reply to

ST. CROIX COUNTY (WQOW) – In a hearing that lasted less than three minutes total, the man accused of stabbing five people on the Apple River appeared in court virtually Friday to discuss who will be defending him.

Nicolae Miu told Judge Michael Waterman he secured Corey Chirafisi as his defense attorney.

Chirafisi is a Madison-based lawyer who has been practicing law in Wisconsin for more than 20 years; that’s according to his firm’s website. He notably acted as a defense lawyer for Kyle Rittenhouse, who was famously acquitted of murder after killing two people during the civil unrest in Kenosha in 2020.

Miu is charged with first degree intentional homicide and four counts of attempted first degree intentional homicide. He is accused of stabbing five people who were tubing along the Apple River in Somerset last weekend. A 17-year-old died from his injuries.

Miu claims he was acting

As the Biden administration lays claim to being the most pro-union in generations, many US labor leaders have hailed Jennifer Abruzzo as the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) most vigorously pro-union general counsel in decades.

The top lawyer at the body charged with enforcing US labor law has been hailed as a champion by some and as a “radical” by her opponents. For others involved in the white-hot world of union organizing, she has not gone far enough.

Abruzzo’s bona fides are clear. She has repeatedly urged the NLRB’s five-person board to adopt new policies that would make it easier to unionize. She wants the board to prohibit so-called captive audience meetings in which Amazon and many other companies require employees to listen to anti-union speeches from managers and consultants. She wants the board to require employers to grant union recognition once a majority of workers sign cards saying they