Once again, the question of corporate liability for alleged human rights abuses is being teed up for possible appellate review.

Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department PETER B. SKELOS, J.P. DANIEL D. ANGIOLILLO RUTH C. BALKIN CHERYL E.

The truly fascinating discovery controversy developing in the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust case against Cephalon, proves, once again, that litigation sometimes makes for very strange bedfellows.

After seeing a racketeering suit against Alcatel-Lucent dismissed last January, El Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, a Costa Rico public utility, tries this time to get compensation as a crime victim.

Mutual funds suffered sickening losses in the market collapse of the last six months. That must mean enterprising plaintiffs lawyers are thinking about testing their vulnerability to securities class actions. Will the suits succeed?