Litigation
An antitrust lawsuit that goes back to 1994 has apparently breathed its last, as the Supreme Court this week declined […]
The Obama administration is pushing to confirm judges to federal courts ahead of the midterm elections, which could spell the […]
In the last three years, appeals court judges sat on cases in which they had a financial conflict of interest, […]
Some of Silicon Valley’s largest tech firms have reached a $324 million settlement in an antitrust class action, far less […]
A compilation of recent court actions from Sidley & Austin: In Arizona, a defendant’s “culpable state of mind” when he […]
Low-level federal judges are fighting law enforcement demands for sensitive personal data, including cell phone records and access to Facebook […]
The fraud-on-the-market doctrine could be invalidated by a decision in Halliburton v Erica P. John Fund, now before the U.S. […]
Lawyers may investigate potential jurors on the Internet, but may not engage them directly – by, for example, asking to […]
Law firms that bring in lateral hires from a firm on the brink of dissolution may risk a future lawsuit, […]
Justice Kennedy wrote for the Court that restricting Michigan voters from making their own decision on affirmative action would be “an unprecedented restriction on a fundamental right held not just by one person but by all in common.”
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