1244 ABA Journal Civil Procedure articles.
A federal judge in Philadelphia has turned down an unusual request to bar mention of the president’s name and the Iraq war during a trial scheduled to begin on Monday.
…Jul 20, 2007 1:08 PM CDT
The Justice Department may have lost big in the massive $2.5 billion tax shelter fraud case brought against former KPMG accounting firm employees, if a federal judge’s dismissal of 13…
Jul 19, 2007 8:08 PM CDT
A Canadian attorney representing an accused enemy combatant held at the Guantanamo Bay military prison says he was harassed and had his legal notes reviewed on Saturday by U.S. authorities.
…Jul 17, 2007 12:56 AM CDT
A San Francisco federal judge will consider whether an advocacy group has standing to sue the government for spreading misinformation about marijuana.
Americans for Safe Access claims a little-used law,…
Jul 12, 2007 12:38 PM CDT
Misconduct charges have been filed against a Massachusetts judge who allegedly went too far in his continuing campaign against a Boston newspaper after winning a big-bucks libel case.
After winning…
Jul 10, 2007 9:38 PM CDT
A California Supreme Court justice sounded something like the late sportscaster Howard Cosell in explaining why the Oakland Raiders will not get a retrial in a territorial rights suit against…
Jul 3, 2007 12:58 PM CDT
A federal appeals court has ruled New York’s long-arm statute doesn’t reach an Iowa resident who operates a Web site called MovingScam.com.
Best Van Lines alleged the Web site made…
Jun 29, 2007 6:17 PM CDT
A Los Angeles Times investigation has found that U-Haul lost, altered or tossed out truck and trailer parts sought by injured customers in almost a dozen…
Jun 26, 2007 8:12 PM CDT
The U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision has ruled that taxpayers do not have standing to challenge a White House program that encouraged faith-based organizations to seek federal aid.
…Jun 25, 2007 5:15 PM CDT
It’s a basic premise of constitutional law that litigants are entitled to a fair trial. Thus, when a judge is even peripherally involved in a lawsuit, he or she routinely…
Jun 19, 2007 12:05 AM CDT
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a federal appeals court did not have jurisdiction to review a federal judge’s order sending a lawsuit against a Canadian energy company back…
Jun 18, 2007 4:35 PM CDT
Courts in two states yesterday differed on workers’ quests for class action status in lawsuits against Wal-Mart.
A Missouri appeals court ruled that a class action suit could proceed after a trial judge revises definitions for subclasses, the Wall Street Journal reports (sub. req.).
A New York court refused to certify a class in a similar suit, saying the claims should be tried individually.
Jun 13, 2007 2:37 PM CDT
Los Angeles lawyer David Aronoff has found a new way to oppose class actions.
Aronoff thought that too many judges were displaying a “rubber stamp mentality” and routinely certifying class-actions.…
Jun 13, 2007 1:10 PM CDT
A Los Angeles magistrate has ordered a Web search engine to collect customer data stored in random access memory in perhaps the first case to require such discovery.
TorrentSpy, a search engine that directs users to video files, is appealing the order, the Recorder reports. The company is being sued for copyright infringement by six movie studios seeking access to RAM to learn more about the files sought by site visitors.
Jun 13, 2007 12:24 PM CDT
An 88-year-old American lawyer who helped try war criminals at Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II says today’s Guantanamo Bay cases fly in the face of the prosecutorial precedent he…
Jun 12, 2007 12:27 AM CDT
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