One branch of New York City government—the parks department—is wooing gourmet food trucks to set up shop in the city’s parks in an effort to provide the working masses an…
A lawyer for long sought-after fugitive James “Whitey” Bulger is complaining that the FBI is leaking non-public information to the media and has filed a request seeking to rein in…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in two separate cases that foreign manufacturers and subsidiaries are protected from liability suits in state courts because they had insufficient connections to justify…
Lawyers for Wal-Mart employees say they will press on despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Monday making it more difficult to bring bias class actions against huge companies that delegate…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against Wal-Mart employees who had sought to combine their claims against the retailer in a huge federal class action.
Justice Elena Kagan tried ad-libbing as she announced her opinion yesterday holding that a federal court had no authority to bar a class action in state…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a federal court had no authority to bar a state-court class action claiming injury from the cholesterol drug Baycol.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a woman accused of trying to poison her romantic rival has standing to challenge Congress’ power to enact the law used to prosecute…
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