By Ben Hancock | November 3, 2017
An annual meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ended Friday without resolving a looming standoff between European privacy law and ICANN rules that help right holders identify IP infringers on the web.
By Josefa Velasquez | November 3, 2017
Two Big Law associates are behind the blog tracking a series of loans involving properties owned by Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman.
By C. Ryan Barber | November 3, 2017
Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has been cleared of allegations that he improperly positioned himself to run in Ohio's gubernatorial contest while leading the Obama-era agency, according to a newly disclosed letter from the government office that enforces restrictions on federal employees' political activity.
By C. Ryan Barber | November 3, 2017
A federal magistrate judge has struck a key witness and ordered the U.S. Justice Department to pay legal fees to HCR ManorCare Inc., one of the country's largest providers of skilled nursing facilities, for alleged missteps in a case the government touted in the crackdown on fraud in the health care industry. “I don't think this case should have ever been brought,” a federal magistrate judge in Virginia said at a recent hearing. “I have looked at this stuff, and I'm appalled, I'm embarrassed, I'm ashamed that the Department of Justice would rely on this kind of nonsense." The government indicated this week it will appeal the decision.
By Charles Toutant | November 2, 2017
Friendship and bribery are not mutually exclusive, prosecutors told the jury during Thursday's closing arguments in the two-month-long trial of U.S.…
By Cogan Schneier | November 2, 2017
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson warned lawyers to follow the court's local rules about handling highly publicized cases.
By Marcia Coyle | November 2, 2017
Miller & Chevalier's Barry Pollack goes to court to argue for the release of Brig. Gen. John Baker, chief defense counsel of the Military Commissions Defense Organization System. A commission judge held Baker in contempt and ordered him confined for 21 days for refusing to rescind his Oct. 11 decision to excuse three civilian lawyers from their defense of a detainee. The dispute centers on concern about adequate protection of attorney-client privileges at the naval base.
By Amanda Bronstad | November 2, 2017
In just three sentences, a judge in Colorado shot down an unpaid wage settlement, stating that “the parties and counsel should be ashamed of themselves for asking a federal court to approve this settlement.”
By Scott Flaherty | November 2, 2017
A superseding criminal complaint filed against Jeffrey Wertkin on Wednesday includes three new counts—two for obstruction of justice and a third for interstate transport of stolen goods.
By Amanda Bronstad | November 2, 2017
Plaintiffs lawyers have asked a Missouri court of appeals to reconsider its reversal of a $72 million talcum powder verdict as more cases are sent to a multidistrict litigation docket in New Jersey federal court.
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