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By B. Colby Hamilton | July 6, 2017
Plaintiffs attorneys are able to collect fees for an appeal initiated by the defendants in back-and-forth litigation between the Second Circuit and the Northern District, the circuit held.
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By Cheryl Miller | July 6, 2017
California and seven other states on Thursday moved to defend Obama-era ozone pollution standards that Attorney General Xavier Becerra said may be left to die under Scott Pruitt's leadership of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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By Katheryn Hayes Tucker | July 6, 2017
The question of whether a caterer can be sued over food poisoning suffered by wedding guests produced a 5-4 split and two strong dissents at the Georgia Court of Appeals.
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By Charles Toutant | July 6, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court's 2016 holding in that a technical violation of a statute is insufficient to establish Article III standing does not preclude a suit over a potential disclosure of information by barcodes on debt collection letters, a federal judge in Newark has ruled.
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By njlawjournal | New Jersey Law Journal | July 6, 2017
State Court Judges Not Proper Parties to §1983 Suits Where Judges Acted as Neutral Arbiters
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By Katheryn Hayes Tucker | July 5, 2017
The doctrine of sovereign immunity has produced a hangover for Clayton County and the city of College Park over how to split taxes on alcohol sales at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. This bar tab dispute is worth $2.5 million.
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By Charles Kagay | July 5, 2017
'Ryan v. Rosenfeld' illustrates that a good place to look for judicial mistakes is in California's labyrinth of post-trial motions, which can be a source of vexation for trial practitioners.
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By JOHN COUNCIL | July 5, 2017
Houston lawyer Bill Luyties represents a small Chicago law firm that does no business in Texas, other than when it unwittingly attempted to deposit a huge counterfeit check drawn off an account in the Lone Star State as part of a bank scam. And Luyties recently convinced Houston's First Court of Appeals that the mere act of depositing a phony check is not enough reason to allow a bank to sue the Illinois law firm in a Texas court. And that ruling will be a great relief to other out-of-state law firms who get used by crooks in illegal Texas financial schemes, he said.
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By Charles Toutant | July 5, 2017
Defunct Philadelphia law firm Wolf Block's corporate registration in New Jersey and its acceptance of service there for a malpractice suit against it did not give a New Jersey court jurisdiction to hear the case, the Appellate Division has ruled.
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By Scott Graham | July 5, 2017
The Federal Circuit on Wednesday ordered Judge Rodney Gilstrap of the Eastern District of Texas to award attorney fees to Newegg, writing that deference to district court judges "is not absolute."
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