Grubaugh Law recently defended a client at a residency termination hearing. For those who are not aware, medical residents may be kicked out of their educational program for academic performance issues or misconduct. They face very limited procedural…
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Twice in the last few weeks, I’ve been involved in discussions with other criminal defense attorneys on the type of notice a defendant must have of the existence of a protective order. So today I tried to figure out the answer, and I’m ge…
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Grubaugh Law previously wrote about the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). A provision in the 2021 NDAA included Bladder Cancer, Hypothyroidism, and Parkinsonism to the list of diseases presumptively connected to Agent Orange exposure an…
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To anyone interested, I’m teaching a continuing legal education (CLE) course for the Federal Bar Association tomorrow at 1pm EST. The course is called: Facing the Fire: How Executives Can Best Prepare to Testify in Legal Proceedings. The course…
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Grubaugh Law won another case at the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC). This was a fully contested and hard fought appeal. The case now goes back to the Board of Veterans Appeals on remand, where the veteran may be awarded service-connectio…
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The Connecticut Supreme Court released a decision yesterday, Gomes, that overturned an assault conviction due to a jury charge. The defense asked for a jury instruction on the adequacy of the police investigation. The police responded to a fight at a…
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The Senate overrode President Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) yesterday. Combined with the House’s earlier veto override, the bill is now law. The NDAA contains good news for Vietnam era veterans, with a prov…
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Orin Kerr, 4th Amendment scholar, has a new article arguing defense attorneys should object to the government’s preservation requests under 18 U.S.C. § 2703(f). Under 18 U.S.C. § 2703(f), Internet providers must preserve records and other evi…
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Today, the Connecticut Supreme Court overturned the murder conviction of Donald Raynor because the trial judge denied the defendant’s motion for a hearing pursuant to State v. Porter, 241 Conn. 57 (1997). Porter follows Daubert v. Merrell Dow P…
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I sometimes blog over at Global Military Justice Reform Blog. I wrote one this morning about a settlement out of the U.S. District Court in Connecticut, between the Army and veterans with bad-paper discharges.
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