A federal appeals court is allowing a televangelist’s defamation suit claiming ABC’s 20/20 news program took a clip of one of his sermons out of context.
A federal judge in Hawaii has given a green light to part of a pro se plaintiff’s lawsuit contending that he wasted some 20,000 hours playing Lineage II between 2004…
A federal appeals court today blocked a plan to allow same-sex marriages in California later this week, while the so-called Proposition 8 case ruling overturning a state referendum that banned…
A federal judge in California has ruled that Wells Fargo must repay $203 million in excessive debit-card overdraft fees to customers who were charged, without adequate disclosure, in a manner…
A federal appeals court has vacated an injunction barring MGA Entertainment from selling Bratz dolls or using the name in a hard-fought infringement and contractual rights case…
In a lawsuit likely to resonate with other women who travel alone on business, a well-known sportscaster for ESPN sued several hotel chains today in Illinois state court over video…
A federal appeals court has suspended prominent California plaintiffs lawyer Walter Lack for filing fraudulent appeals briefs in litigation against Dole Food Co.
Lack received a six-month suspension from practice…
A federal appeals court has reversed $25,000 in attorney’s fee sanctions imposed by a judge on a practitioner who won discrimination cases against FedEx, saying that the lawyer should have…
Evidence about the population of the giant Palouse earthworm is limited and inconclusive, according to a federal appeals court. There has been no well-designed study about its population, and no…
A lawyer arguing on behalf of John Yoo told an appellate panel on Monday that the former Justice Department official can’t be liable for his legal advice on national security.
A federal judge in San Francisco has quashed a subpoena seeking to force Yahoo to provide the Web address for an anonymous online critic of USA Technologies, saying that “Stokklerk”…
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