The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that shareholders suing a company for securities fraud don’t have to prove the defendant’s deceptive conduct caused their losses before obtaining certification of their…
A plaintiff challenging the new health care law could derail a federal appellate ruling on its constitutionality because she bought health insurance from her employer last October.
By allowing a filmmaker access to attorney-client meetings for his Crude documentary about a megabucks environmental case in Ecuador, lawyers for the plaintiffs did not create a subject-matter waiver for…
The U.S. Supreme Court is declining to decide whether police and social workers must get a warrant before interviewing a child at school about alleged sexual abuse.
A Chicago lawyer wants a judge to exclude a buxom woman from the opposing counsel’s table at an upcoming trial over a car dealership’s warranty on a used Cadillac.
One of the lawyers seeking to overturn California’s ban on gay marriage says it’s possible the Supreme Court could strike down the ban in an incremental way.
The National Football League apparently found a friendly forum when a St. Louis-based federal appeals court ruled Monday evening that the lockout could continue.
Corrected: A federal appeals court yesterday upheld an unusual preliminary injunction preventing the plaintiffs who won an $18 billion judgment in an Ecuador environmental case against Chevron Corp. from taking…
A federal appeals court has upheld a default judgment against two Southern gun stores accused of having “New Yorkers’ blood on their hands,” but ruled the injunctions issued against them…
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