Updated: A federal judge in Austin, Texas, has served notice on local lawyers that they would be well-advised to try harder to get along. In a Friday court order, he…
Victorious a few months ago before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case that held customers were required by their phone contracts to arbitrate claims rather than sue, AT&T is…
A bank that sued to foreclose a New Jersey mortgage in 2008 is back on square one after a state appeals court ruling yesterday that its filing was defective because…
A Manhattan federal judge won’t hold the Central Intelligence Agency in contempt for destroying videotapes chronicling harsh interrogations of two al-Qaida detainees.
U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ordered the CIA…
Rejecting an argument by Seyfarth Shaw that an out-of-state lawyer from a Texas law firm should be precluded from appearing pro hac vice in a legal malpractice case against Seyfarth,…
A judge in Michigan has dismissed a lawsuit brought by paralegal Cheryl Gray, who claimed she was dumped and defamed by a Seattle man she met on Facebook.
A California lawyer known for failed “birther” litigation against President Barack Obama that resulted in a $20,000 sanction from a U.S. District Court judge in Georgia has now irritated another…
Tennessee lawyer Herb Moncier doesn’t think he should have to pay Baker & Donelson to monitor his court appearances during a 10-month probationary period imposed by lawyer ethics regulators.
Although district judges should disqualify themselves in proceedings in which they are a party, according to the Pennsylvania Judicial Conduct Board’s rules, one judge took it upon herself to dismiss…
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