In Kano State, a quiet but powerful legal instrument has become the shield of choice for suspects seeking refuge from the ...

Shelby McBride sees "frequent flyers" in and out of her Common Pleas Courthouse office to file ex parte orders of protection on a daily basis. The Cape Girardeau County circuit clerk knows victims of ...

The National Judicial Council (NJC) has had cause to sanction judges who did not exercise proper discretion in granting ex-parte orders, which are made without waiting for a response from the other ...

A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, gave Kano State government seven-day ultimatum to show cause why the ex-parte orders sought by the 44 local government areas (LGAs) of the state should not ...

CPLR 5701 limits appeals to noticed motions and does not allow immediate appeals from sua sponte or ex parte orders, creating unfair delays. The *Sholes* case confirmed no right to appeal sua sponte ...

Worried by the spate of conflicting ex-parte court orders in 2021, the then Chief Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad summoned chief judges of Rivers, Kebbi, Cross River, Jigawa, Anambra and Imo states as ...

Michigan's red flag law is seeing heavy use. In 2025, judges across the state were asked more than 500 times to temporarily take guns from people flagged as potentially dangerous, with courts logging ...

The highly effective discovery tools have been used prior to tradeshows—but this may change. Potential defendants must prepare, explain Pauline Debré, Gaëlle Bourout and Manon Surel of Linklaters.