Employment litigation, in general, is increasing, and laid-off lawyers certainly should be able to recognize a possible cause of action as quickly as most potential plaintiffs.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to grant cert in a case challenging mutual fund fees highlights “judicial fisticuffs” between two law-and-economics judges, Frank Easterbrook and…
Justice Antonin Scalia says there are only two originalists on the U.S. Supreme Court, and one of them would benefit from talking more at oral arguments.
The University Club of Washington, D.C., believes it has found a way to bring back U.S. Supreme Court justices and federal judges who had to give up their free memberships…
Justice John Paul Stevens decried “the fundamental inhumanity and unworkability of the death penalty” in dissenting today from the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to accept an appeal by a convicted…
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a federal law bars mutual fund advisers from charging excessive fees if there was no attempt to mislead.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a federal court has no jurisdiction to hear a credit card company’s motion to compel arbitration of a consumer dispute that began in…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that an anti-dilution provision of the Voting Rights Act does not protect minorities in redistricting fights where they make up less than half of…
Perhaps just a bit irked by a U.S. senator’s dire prediction that she has only nine months to live, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has…
Companies arguing that their federally regulated products are not subject to state court lawsuits could face difficulties absent an express congressional pronouncement after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Mar 5, 2009 2:14 PM CST
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that pharmaceutical companies aren’t protected from lawsuits because their warning labels are approved by the federal government.
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