Litigation

Can Judges’ “Inherent Power” Be Used To Punish Lawyers?

May 26, 2016

A federal judge in Texas this week took extraordinary actions against Justice Department lawyers he felt purposefully misled him, potentially […]

Lower Courts Making Power Grab While SCOTUS Waffles

May 26, 2016

Facing a deadlocked Congress and a Supreme Court stalling in the face of a prolonged vacancy, lower court judges are […]

Tech Billionaire Admits To Backing Lawsuits Against Gawker

May 26, 2016

Peter Thiel, a billionaire tech entrepreneur, has revealed that he funded a major damaging lawsuit against Gawker Media, the company […]

What Can A Lawyer Say To The Press?

May 26, 2016

Several media groups, the ACLU of Ohio and the Ohio chapter of the National Lawyers Guild are among those filing […]

VW Questions U.S. Standing In Emissions Lawsuit

May 26, 2016

American authorities do not have jurisdiction to sue Volkswagen over its doctored diesel emissions tests, the German automaker claims in […]

How The Eastern District Of Texas Got That Way

May 25, 2016

There is no jail in Marshall, Texas and the federal district court there hears few criminal cases. It does hear […]

Prisoner’s Petition Made It To Supreme Court

May 25, 2016

Prison inmate Antonio Hinojosa’s hand written challenge to a California law that cost him good-time credits was rejected by the […]

Lawyer’s Suicide Confession Can Stand, Though He Survived

May 25, 2016

In November 2014 a lawyer who had hit rock bottom – after duping dozens of people, including his parents, in […]

A Huge Loophole In U.S. Insider Trading Law

May 25, 2016

Columbia Law School professor John C. Coffee Jr. makes a case that U.S. insider trading laws are toothless and badly […]

Conspiracy Theories Around Lawsuits That Dog Gawker

May 25, 2016

It took Gawker Media founder Nick Denton some convincing, but he’s now among those curious if one financier is backing […]

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