Judge Joshua Roberts, head of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas complex litigation center, on Tuesday appointed a batch of attorneys to liaison counsel posts in the hair relaxer litigation. Most of the half-dozen lawyers selected are regulars in the court's mass tort program.        

One camp wants Boeing to ante up a lot more money. The other wants the judge to force the Justice Department to take the case to trial.

       

A New Jersey state court judge overseeing talc lawsuits will hear arguments Thursday on whether to bar pro hac vice admissions to two Beasley Allen lawyers, Andy Birchfield and Leigh O'Dell.        

Wednesday's verdict, which was all compensatory damages, is the first in a talc trial against Johnson & Johnson in Boston.

       

The New York City mayor can appoint and reappoint judges to the city's criminal and family courts—which are the most salient points of contact for most residents—and may temporarily fill vacancies in the city's civil courts. But how mayors have wielded this power, and how the next one will, has received little attention, even as public safety and criminal justice have become key campaign points in the competitive mayoral race.

       

Gary Levin will help with strategy and oversee administrative aspects of the firm, which has more than 3,500 staff globally, Kirkland said.

       

U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly of the Northern District of Illinois granted defendant Virginia Surety's motion to reconsider its motion to dismiss plaintiff PMC Casualty Corp.'s breach of contract suit, where it claimed it was owed nearly $20 million, but denied the company's motion to dismiss the suit for a second time.

       

Just 11% of legal departments track the diversity of outside counsel, down from 22% a year ago, according to the 2025 Law Department Management Benchmarking Report.
       

It's believed that a knife-wielding attacker did not know he had targeted the recently nominated U.S. attorney in Albany, authorities said.

       

Multiple health providers opted out of a $2.8 billion class settlement to file separate lawsuits alleging a Blue Cross Blue Shield price-fixing conspiracy harming hospitals.

       

"With the benefit of discovery, Northwestern may be able to demonstrate that a different economic reality existed, and that Santiago was not an FLSA-employee during any of his time with Northwestern," U.S. District Judge Mary M. Rowland wrote.

       

A childish move resulted in a courtroom scolding and a dry cleaning bill. However, it's safe to say she can afford it, as it was a $96 million lottery winner suing in a Florida court.

       

Corporate shareholders have asked to certify questions to the Supreme Court involving the constitutionality of safe harbor provisions added to the Delaware General Corporation Law through legislation signed into law in March.

       

Justice Clarence Thomas announced a two-step framework for determining when challenges to U.S. Environmental Protection Action actions must be heard in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, or one of its regional circuit counterparts.

       

Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro has challenged whether the consumer products giant is living up to its "Keep Forests as Forests" environmental pledge by suing it in at least four states this year.

       

The Supreme Court said the state of Texas and a massive landowner could not challenge a federal license to store spent nuclear fuel at a site in Texas' Permian Basin.

       

During a June 10 Supreme Court of Georgia admission ceremony, Justice Verda M. Colvin encouraged 15 attorneys to focus on their character as legal professionals.

       

By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court rejected an equal protection challenge to a state ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for trans minors, which is one of more than 20 such laws around the country.

       

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Meta is trying to stamp out developers it says are slipping nudifier ads onto its platforms by duping its ad review filters.