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The Business Court has socked an unduly persistent plaintiff with attorneys’ fees, because the judge concluded that “the losing party persisted in litigating the case after a point where he should reasonably become aware that the pleading he filed no longer contained a justiciable issue.”
An appeals court reversed the method of calculating lawyer fees in a settlement alleging malfunctioning Toyota headlights, saying the district court incorrectly applied federal law instead of state law to determine the amount of recoverable attorneys’ fees.
All but a handful of class-action claims against PlayStation for its massive data breach were dismissed in a recent decision, because they failed to prove damages.
There is mounting concern that e-discovery has become the tail wagging the dog in too much of today’s litigation – […]
Former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell may have passed on an offer from federal prosecutors that would have spared his wife […]
The U.S. government and the developers of the A-12 stealth attack plane have finally settled a legal entanglement that dragged […]
ShopAdvisor announced that Peter O’Kelly has joined the company as Chief Data Officer. The new position will make O’Kelly responsible […]
EXCO/HGI GP, LLC, a private oil and natural gas joint venture established by HGI and EXCO in February 2013, announced that […]
Gary D. McConnell, former vice president and general counsel of Bayergavel Corp., has joined Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott as […]
Turning his back on a lifetime appointment, U.S. district judge Sam Wilson of the Western District of Virginia has said […]
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