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April 20, 2026
Netflix's attorneys at Baker Botts and Perkins Coie are asking a California federal court to order a Finnish national and his former attorney at Ramey LLP to pay $3 million in fees the streaming giant incurred in defending a patent suit.
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April 20, 2026
CNN has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a petition to revive Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz's $300 million defamation suit, calling Dershowitz a "uniquely unfit petitioner to force a constitutional showdown" over the high court's First Amendment jurisprudence.
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April 20, 2026
Stone Hilton PLLC asked a Texas federal court on Monday to toss an employment lawsuit brought by a former office manager, saying in a bid for summary judgment that the evidence just isn't there to support her claims of sexual harassment and a race-based hostile work environment.
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April 20, 2026
A New York attorney has filed a $3.1 million contract suit against her former employer, accusing an Oklahoma-based national litigation firm of terminating her employment after she requested an overdue invoice, following more than three years of full-time contract work without benefits.
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April 20, 2026
An attorney suing her ex-mentor and former law firm lost her bid to add a defamation claim and make other changes to her long-running sexual harassment and retaliation suit, with a Michigan federal judge saying she waited too long and failed to show good cause to reopen the pleadings.
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April 20, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge said she was "appalled" by a lawyer's repeated use of bogus citations in court documents generated with artificial intelligence and has ordered a $5,000 sanction and additional classes in AI ethics for the attorney.
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April 20, 2026
Illinois Supreme Court justices have no authority to remove a state judge from the bench for alleged misconduct, so their effort to dismiss a retired state trial judge's claims that his removal for penning a political opinion column violated his constitutional rights should be rejected, the retired jurist has said.
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April 20, 2026
A New Jersey federal judge rejected on Monday a former state jurist's bid to revive civil rights claims against a Garden State municipality and its former police director, finding the plaintiff failed to show any new evidence, change in law or clear error justifying reconsideration of the court's summary judgment.
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April 20, 2026
Washington, D.C., ethics officials have asked a federal court to send U.S. Department of Justice official Ed Martin's ethics case back to the D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility, arguing the D.C. federal court lacks jurisdiction over a disciplinary matter, which is neither a civil action nor a criminal prosecution.
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April 20, 2026
A man accused of pocketing $12 million as a part of a larger $140 million scheme to defraud public and private healthcare programs can't get out of a second trial, as the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review his case on Monday.
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April 20, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a former Cornell University graduate student's petition trying to revive his malpractice suit against Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP stemming from patent litigation against Illumina Inc. over DNA sequencing intellectual property.
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April 17, 2026
The Fifth Circuit on Friday vacated a National Labor Relations Board order that dinged Starbucks for sending overbroad subpoenas to pro-union employees, saying in a published opinion that the board applied the wrong legal standard for determining whether the coffeehouse chain committed an unfair labor practice.
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April 17, 2026
A Texas appeals panel will not revive a woman's legal malpractice suit alleging her former attorney botched a hearing, leading to an unfavorable settlement in a defamation case, saying she provided no proof that the attorney's conduct had any such negative effect.
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April 17, 2026
A veteran judge who used the N-word among colleagues and claimed in court that a Black defendant was likely to be violent and "played the race card" has been suspended without pay by New York's highest court.
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April 17, 2026
Georgia-based cybersecurity firm HyperSphere Technologies Inc. on Friday escaped a suit alleging infringement of a developer's copyrighted software code but was denied a request for sanctions for having to defend itself from what it called a "frivolous" lawsuit.
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April 17, 2026
A former paralegal and a Houston personal injury law firm have agreed to settle the worker's lawsuit in Texas federal court accusing the firm of failing to pay overtime, ending a case that later expanded to include the firm's counterclaims alleging the ex-employee lied about the business on TikTok.
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April 17, 2026
National law firm Polsinelli PC was accused of sending letters to two medical device companies with meritless claims of patent infringement, the companies claimed in a pair of malpractice suits.
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April 17, 2026
South Jersey power broker George Norcross and his attorney brother pushed back at a developer's bid to drop a civil racketeering claim against them after an appeals court backed the dismissal of a related criminal case, telling a state court that the proposed amendments to his complaint are futile.
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April 17, 2026
A scaffolding company has hit Adams & Reese LLP with a legal malpractice suit in Texas state court that accuses the firm of botching its defense in a Louisiana workplace injury case, leading to a roughly $411 million jury verdict and ultimately forcing the business to settle the matter for millions.
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April 17, 2026
The parties in a consumer lawsuit challenging Alaska Airlines' 2024 acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines have been notified that the federal judge recently assigned to the case intends to disqualify himself unless they sign a waiver over one of his retirement accounts being tied to O'Melveny & Myers LLP, which is representing Alaska Airlines.
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April 17, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge agreed to step aside from a criminal case involving a man accused of threatening to kill judges after the man pointed out that the jurist had presided over a related bankruptcy matter.
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April 17, 2026
A Maryland federal court has resumed a lawsuit accusing a D.C. corporate tax attorney and his former law firm of a $19 million captive insurance scam following notification that the bankruptcy proceedings of the attorney and the firm have concluded.
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April 17, 2026
Two commercial real estate law firms headed by Mark J. Nussbaum filed for Chapter 11 protection in New York, listing at least $353 million in disputed unsecured claims tied to the firms' hard money lending practices that have been described in litigation as a Ponzi scheme.
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April 16, 2026
Semiconductor company Everspin Technologies Inc. has asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to end a memory chip patent suit against it by Avalanche Technology Inc., saying Avalanche's patents are unenforceable because the company wrongly claimed a "small entity" discount on patent fees for years.
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April 16, 2026
A man convicted of possessing an untraceable gun should have been reexamined for competency and potentially prevented from representing himself after repeatedly making nonsensical legal statements that sounded like what an attorney might say but did not relate at all to the case, a New York state appeals court found.