Litigation
The SEC’s recent shift in policy away from “neither admit nor deny” will make settlements harder to come by. Defendants […]
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 […]
More than 15 years after it was revealed that Stephen Glass, then a 25-year old journalist, had fabricated dozens of […]
One D.C. contractor will go to court next week, suing a woman who posted a Yelp review that he claims […]
Employers scored a big victory in the Supreme Court today with a ruling that unionized steel workers do not need […]
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