217 ABA Journal 1st Circuit Court articles.
When officials at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art decided to litigate against artist Christoph Büchel over an incomplete commissioned piece, they probably didn’t realize what they were getting into.
…Mar 1, 2008 12:01 AM CST
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether the federal government can take land into trust for an Indian tribe, a move that could bar states from preventing the…
Feb 29, 2008 6:55 PM CST
An in-house intellectual property lawyer in the Worcester, Mass., office of a Pennsylvania company apparently wrote his way out of a job by sending four anonymous “sexually tinged” poems to…
Nov 12, 2007 5:17 PM CST
A career criminal’s almost-successful effort to circumvent a lengthy federal sentence by persuading a state court judge to vacate an earlier conviction has been foiled after the state court judge…
Oct 11, 2007 11:39 PM CDT
With a nod to Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham, a federal judge has warned an inmate that attaching a hard-boiled egg to his complaint about his prison diet was…
Sep 21, 2007 4:56 PM CDT
The policy-making arm of the nation’s federal courts voted today to make it easier for both lawyers and the public to access court materials.
For lawyers, the big news is…
Sep 18, 2007 7:01 PM CDT
Fellow practitioners are watching with increasing concern the case of Philip Russell, a Connecticut lawyer who has been charged with violating the Sarbanes-Oxley Act because he allegedly obstructed justice by…
Aug 13, 2007 5:30 PM CDT
Lawyers for the son of a man who died in 1995 after 28 years in prison, serving a sentence for a murder he didn’t commit, told a federal judge in…
Aug 3, 2007 10:53 PM CDT
Courts struggle with honest-services charges in bribery cases
Aug 1, 2007 8:12 AM CDT
Lawyers for the founders a social networking Web site will get a chance to revise their infringement complaint against their big-name competitor, Facebook Inc.
But they may face an uphill…
Jul 26, 2007 8:29 PM CDT
A federal judge in Boston has awarded $100 million to four men unjustly convicted of murder in Massachusetts state court in 1968, reportedly the largest such judgment ever made.
Ruling…
Jul 26, 2007 8:06 PM CDT
One date that’s on almost every federal judge’s calendar this summer is the meeting of his or her circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals, at which trial and appellate…
Jul 1, 2007 7:04 PM CDT
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