In what reportedly is the first such use of the Internet authorized by any court in the country, the United Kingdom’s High Court has permitted an injunction on an anonymous…
Another case concerning employment tests for firefighters is back before the U.S. Supreme Court, but the issue is the timing for filing a complaint. A decision for the city of…
Lawyers challenging the California referendum that banned gay marriage in the state are seeking access to e-mails and other internal documents of referendum backers in a quest to show discriminatory…
CORRECTED: A “negligent” stapling job on a court filing that twice drew blood from a court clerk drew the attention of a New York judge, who took time to note…
Updated: Attorney General Eric Holder plans to announce new limits on the state secrets privilege, invoked to block lawsuits because of national security concerns.
A federal appeals court has reinstated lawsuits by eight states and others claiming power companies’ carbon-dioxide emissions are contributing to global warming.
The public nuisance suits seek caps on emissions,…
The Securities and Exchange Commission is broadening its investigation of Bank of America’s disclosures to shareholders, and the probe could include information revealed after a waiver of attorney-client privilege.
A federal judge irked at grammatical and typographical errors in a motion for dismissal has blasted the Florida lawyer who filed it and ordered him to copy his client on…
Corrected: A Shakespeare-quoting federal judge has ordered a feuding lawyer to take a CLE civility class and to eat a meal with the opponent he labeled an —hole during a…
A little-noticed U.S. Supreme Court decision on heightened federal pleading standards has been cited in more than 1,500 cases, spurring trial lawyers and groups backing civil rights and consumer causes…
The chairman of a House committee has told Bank of America the attorney-client privilege doesn’t apply when dealing with Congress, and the bank must disclose lawyers’ advice on its merger…
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