{"id":134957,"date":"2025-10-09T21:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/09\/charges-from-lsquojudge-shopping-investigation-have-a-strong-defense-but-the-damage-is-done-experts-say\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T21:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:56:11","slug":"charges-from-lsquojudge-shopping-investigation-have-a-strong-defense-but-the-damage-is-done-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/09\/charges-from-lsquojudge-shopping-investigation-have-a-strong-defense-but-the-damage-is-done-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Charges From ‘Judge Shopping’ Investigation Have a Strong Defense, but the Damage Is Done, Experts Say"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201c<\/b>I think these whole proceedings are a dangerous expansion of judicial power to try to keep civil rights lawyers in line and discourage them, said Barry Ragsdale, an attorney from Birmingham-based Dominick Feld Hyde, who was among the legal team defending litigators being questioned about their practices. \u201c<\/b>And I’ve heard the lawyers involved in this case, who are nationally-known lawyers for civil rights, say they’ll never litigate in Alabama again. If that’s true, then, unfortunately, it’s mission accomplished. \"\"<\/p>\n

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\u201c<\/b>I think these whole proceedings are a dangerous expansion of judicial power to try to keep civil rights lawyers in line and discourage them, said Barry Ragsdale, an attorney from Birmingham-based Dominick Feld Hyde, who was among the legal team defending litigators being questioned about their practices. \u201c<\/b>And I’ve heard the lawyers involved in this case, who are nationally-known lawyers for civil rights, say they’ll never litigate in Alabama again. If that’s true, then, unfortunately, it’s mission accomplished. \"\"<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think these whole proceedings are a dangerous expansion of judicial power to try to keep civil rights lawyers in line and discourage them, said Barry Ragsdale, an attorney from Birmingham-based Dominick Feld Hyde, who was among the legal team defending litigators being questioned about their practices. \u201cAnd I’ve heard the lawyers involved in this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":134958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/legal-news-L348CN.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}