United States v. Miller, William G.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the risk of an apparent conflict of interest outweighed a party’s interest in retaining the counsel of his choice
• declining to consider a screening mechanism as an alternative to disqualification because the non-moving party had not adequately presented the issue to the court
• affirming disqualification of law firm when lawyer violated New Jersey rule by switching sides
• abuse of discretion standard applies to trial court’s chosen remedy on motion to disqualify; trial court “has a wide discretion in framing its sanctions to be just and fair to all parties involved”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).