A federal magistrate judge shot down an effort by the billionaire's attorneys to limit the scope of email and Slack searches and shorten the length of depositions.

       

The New Jersey high court concluded that the municipal court judge's Facebook activity warranted suspension without pay.

       

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit departed from hundreds of district court cases and held that private plaintiffs cannot maintain a private right of action for alleged violations of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act through 42 U.S.C. Section 1983.

       

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit departed from hundreds of district court cases and held that private plaintiffs cannot maintain a private right of action for alleged violations of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act through 42 U.S.C. Section 1983.

       

King & Spalding still has about 175 products liability lawyers worldwide and another 130 specializing in toxic and environmental torts.

       

Accusers' "reluctance" to engage in sex was not enough to establish the crime of rape, Weinstein's defense attorney Arthur Aidala told jurors as the sex abuse retrial drew toward a close.

       

"That foundational principle, that functioning and independent bodies would receive, review, and decide in the first instance challenges to adverse personnel actions affecting covered federal employees, has recently been called into question,” the appellate court stated.

       

The trial in a class action alleging that Google LLC illegally collected users' cellular data through the Android operating system to subsidize its advertising business kicked off this week in California state court. Plaintiffs are seeking $816 million in damages.

       

George Casey's arrival at the firm in 2024 from Shearman & Sterling, where he served as global co-managing partner, was seen as a signal of the firm's renewed ambitions in the U.S.

       

Legislators implemented the 2024 Florida law to restrict children's access to social-media platforms for the minors' online protection.

       

Marc-Andre Blanchard brings global diplomatic experience, legal expertise, and familiarity with the ruling Liberal party to a key government role.

       

The New York Unified Court System's 49-member Judicial Task Force on Mental Illness also recommends the launch of a yearlong planning process to establish mental health courts within the Family Court system.

       

Like current Multistate Performance Test (MPT) questions, NextGen performance tasks will require examinees to demonstrate their ability to use fundamental lawyering skills in realistic situations, completing tasks that a beginning lawyer should be able to accomplish.

       

Texas legislators passed Senate Bill 293 in the final moments of the Texas 89th Legislative session. The bill provides a 25 percent increase in base pay for Texas district judges. It also imposes some new disciplinary measures.

       

“I think many people in the transportation and logistics industry were very pleased at the outset of this administration with the idea that enforcement may be more driven by common sense than by strict technical compliance, said Jonathan Todd, a partner at Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aranoff. “But there are some pockets of increased enforcement.

       

AI agents are becoming ubiquitous on the market, but how do they differ from other technology? And what do they mean for the legal market?

       

"In the government's view, so long as Harvard is punished for exercising its First Amendment rights, the ends justify the means," the memorandum in support of Harvard's motion for summary judgment claimed.

       

Tom Girardi's lawyers pleaded for the judge to impose a noncustodial sentence so that their client, who turns 86 years old Tuesday and has dementia, could serve his sentence at a memory care unit in assisted living. "Today is the last day he will ever step foot in a courtroom," federal public defender Sam Cross said at Tuesday's sentencing hearing.

       

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide next term whether to allow a lawsuit against a Pentagon contractor over a suicide bombing on a military base in Afghanistan in a case that could expose defense contractors to additional state tort litigation.

       

According to Pfizer Inc., only two Depo-Provera lawsuits had been filed in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas as of the company's May 29 petition submission. However, one of those actions had been brought on behalf of 100 individual plaintiffs.