Cleanup and litigation costs could amount to billions of dollars, attorneys say, given the scope of pollution and extensive use of PFAS in consumer products.

"Here, Estep contends that his accident occurred while he was loading his car with luggage, which was part of a greater mission of returning home to Chesapeake with that luggage," Judge Frank K. Friedman wrote on behalf of the majority. "Simply put, transporting luggage is a valid and expected use of a vehicle, and one cannot transport the baggage without first packing the vehicle."

A federal judge in Virginia court joined the ranks of other federal courts around the country on the issue of COVID-19 business interruption coverage, refusing to reconsider her previous ruling that the coronavirus did not cause "physical loss or damage" and declining to certify the question to the Virginia Supreme Court.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit rejected a defendant's claims that a judge in Massachusetts improperly relied on "personal observations about his own, private gun collection" during a probation violation hearing when determining that at least one weapon shown in a video was a real firearm.

"Whenever a truthful answer would reflect poorly on him, Mr. Rosebush would veer off course and reiterate—often with identical words, emphases, cadence, and gestures—his scripted, and completely non-responsive, speech about the nature of the PBM audits," the Roche motion says.

The Ohio Supreme Court has denied an affidavit to disqualify a probate court judge, chastising the plaintiff's counsel for failing to file the affidavit until nearly three years after becoming aware of a potential conflict of interest.

The panel ordered the district court to lower the service award, but upheld the $5.6 billion settlement, which is believed to be the largest antitrust class action settlement in history.

"What Marshall did not have the right to do was make serious, disparaging allegations impugning Judge Wechsler's integrity as a judicial officer without a factual basis," stated the opinion. "It was the groundless, provocative, and legally meritless quality of his allegations, not his filing of a motion to recuse, that we sanctioned."

Talent wars and remote work are pushing firms to be more systematic about understanding the dynamics that drive the way their personnel interact.

"This is of interest to everyone and my mother because it has so much potential to impact people, both good and potentially bad," Gibson Dunn's AI leader Vivek Mohan said. "People want to see responsibility and guardrails put in place, to unlock the opportunity of the tech while not having us end up like 'Terminator 2.'"

Here's a first look at the law schools that sent the highest percentage of 2022 graduates to associate jobs at the largest 100 law firms.

"The law cannot repair the harm that Jones has done to the Sandy Hook Families, but it can and must hold Jones fully accountable for the injury he has caused and the resulting judgment against him," the Connecticut plaintiffs' complaint said.

"Bank failures are rare and, given the size of these failures and the government's unusual response, these in particular will likely raise novel issues," says Complex Appellate Litigation Group's Reno Fernandez.

In developing the two new "apprenticeship" and "experiential" options, Oregon's committee says it has "examined other jurisdictions that offer multiple licensure pathways, but is creating examinations that will best serve Oregon consumers."

Foreign law firms will be allowed to establish offices on the ground for the first time in one of the world's biggest economies.

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The law firm was asked by the agency for documents following a hack of the firm in 2020. While they complied with parts of the request, the firm refused to hand over its client list.

Cleanup and litigation costs could amount to billions of dollars, attorneys say, given the scope of pollution and extensive use of PFAS in consumer products.

During a legal career that spanned 55 years, Flexner helped break up AT&T while at the DOJ and went on to advise on the country's biggest mergers in private practice.