Justice Antonin Scalia’s son, Euguene, is a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, the law firm representing Wal-Mart as it opposes a worker class action in a case argued Tuesday…
Whether to allow the largest class action sex-discrimination case ever, against Wal-Mart Stores Inc., to go forward was argued before the U.S. Supreme Court today.
A death row inmate whose case may be portrayed in a film starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon as his two lawyers has suffered a defeat in the U.S. Supreme…
A majority of the U.S. Supreme Court appears ready to strike down an Arizona campaign finance law that doles out additional matching funds to publicly financed candidates as privately financed…
Corrected: The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a Lutheran elementary school can be sued for retaliation by a narcoleptic teacher who wanted to return to work after…
A constitutional requirement for a lawyer in civil contempt cases against parents who don’t pay child support would be a “massive” change, a lawyer argued before the U.S. Supreme Court…
Virginia Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, will stay busy despite giving up control of Liberty Central, a website and group for “citizen activists.”
The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing an investor lawsuit that claims the makers of Zicam should have disclosed reports that the cold remedy caused a loss of smell, even though…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that workers are protected from retaliation when they voice complaints about labor law violations, but fail to commit them to writing.
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a investigator in a Georgia district attorney’s office has absolute immunity in a civil suit claiming he gave false testimony to…
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a mailroom mix-up at Sullivan & Cromwell that resulted in a missed deadline bars the habeas appeal of a death row…
The U.S. Supreme Court has reversed the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a per curiam decision that hits the San Francisco appellate court for an “inexplicable” three-paragraph decision…
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