The owner of a Florida dental technician business has sued Greenberg Traurig for malicious prosecution after the state supreme court sided with her in an eviction case.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that environmental groups don’t have standing to challenge Forest Service comment regulations for small projects based on an affidavit of a member who frequently…
The U.S. Supreme Court has accepted an appeal by Reed Elsevier, Thomson Reuters and other publishers seeking to reinstate a settlement providing compensation for the electronic republication of freelance articles.
A lack of standing is the reason judges tossed lawsuits disputing the citizenship of Barack Obama and John McCain, and the reason a challenge to Hillary Clinton’s right to office…
A Dallas lawyer has filed a libel suit against a judge overseeing a case involving the dissolution of his law firm for expressing concerns that the lawyer was stalking him.
A federal judge is so fed up with what he labeled a prominent defense firm’s history of “vexatious” litigation tactics that he has threatened to bar all 20 partners and…
In a case closely watched for a preview of the Obama’s administration’s terrorism policies, a Justice Department lawyer invoked the state secrets privilege before a federal appeals court yesterday.
An elephant abuse lawsuit against the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is a major test of protections for captive animals under the federal Endangered…
A litigant who filed his own appeals brief written partially in rap has won a Wisconsin appeals court ruling that he doesn’t have to pay legal fees for a lawsuit…
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…
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