Acknowledging some pointed criticism of its 2001 immunity decision Saucier v. Katz, the U.S. Supreme Court has nixed the ruling’s rigid two-step test for determining immunity.
A federal appeals court has dismissed a suit by Michigan lawyer Geoffrey Fieger challenging an ethics rule requiring lawyers to use courtesy and civility.
About 175 cases filed by Guantanamo detainees seeking a review of their enemy combatant designations won’t get a federal appeals court hearing under a decision today by the U.S. Court…
Updated: In an apparent first in Australia and, possibly, the world, a judge has OK’d a plan to serve a default judgment on a non-appearing defendant via a social networking…
U.S. Supreme Court justices mulling whether to toss a Muslim cable TV installer’s suit against the former attorney general turned to an unusual hypothetical: Could the chief executive officer of…
Outraged by deposition testimony in a fraud suit against a Houston automobile dealership, a client of a Texas attorney arranged, with the lawyer’s help, to post a 6-minute excerpt on…
Legal profession experts are seeing an increase in the numbers of individuals who choose to go it alone when they are forced to go to court. And it’s a trend…
A former prosecutor in Suffolk County, N.Y., has lost a bid to reopen discovery in a ruling that says she can’t take advantage of the allowances usually given a pro…
An eHarmony lawyer says a California class action alleging gay bias is moot after a settlement agreement announced yesterday in a similar case in New Jersey.
Actor Keanu Reeves was found not to be liable for a photographer’s injuries last year after the paparazzo apparently got too close to his upscale vehicle.
A gubernatorial candidate in Washington maintained he didn’t violate campaign finance laws during a deposition Wednesday that was marked more by the lawyers’ rancorous disagreements than revealing testimony.
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