Chinese device-maker Hikvision hoped to convince the D.C. Circuit Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission doesn't have the authority to strip a company's existing authorizations for national security reasons, but the judges did not seem persuaded.
Chinese device-maker Hikvision hoped to convince the D.C. Circuit Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission doesn't have the authority to strip a company's existing authorizations for national security reasons, but the judges did not seem persuaded.
Chief Justice John Roberts has transferred the Federal Circuit's investigation of suspended U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman to the Eleventh Circuit, the latter court said Tuesday.
A former FBI agent has come forward with a claim that when U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove was at the U.S. Department of Justice, he directed the Los Angeles field office to illegally investigate protesters.
Afghanistan's representative at the United Nations has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject requests by terrorist attack victims to review their cases seeking to secure funds held by Afghanistan's central bank, saying they cannot be compensated by the Afghan people.
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal by Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, former executive of the blood-testing startup Theranos, of his criminal fraud conviction and nearly 13-year prison sentence,
A Texas memory care facility agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging it fired an employee after trying to demote her for taking military leave, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Hess and a former munitions manufacturer will collectively pay $24 million to resolve the state of New Jersey's natural resource damages claims over alleged contamination from operations spanning five industrial sites, state officials announced this week.
The U.S. Department of Defense is appealing a Massachusetts federal court's decision awarding attorney fees to an academic organization that helped successfully argue that the department's cap on reimbursing indirect costs from universities' grant-funded research was unlawful.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office denied numerous protests over the U.S. Army's multi-award, $50 billion solicitation seeking a "marketplace" for professional services acquisition, upholding its mixed use of the Federal Acquisition Regulation and the Trump administration's "Revolutionary FAR Overhaul."
Companies outside the traditional telecommunications sector may now need to factor the Federal Communications Commission's equipment authorization requirements into supply chain compliance as the FCC covered list continues to expand as a national security tool, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
Litigation funder Omni Bridgeway has raised a new $1 billion fund from mostly repeat investors, with plans to deploy the money broadly across countries and case types while avoiding debt leverage.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said this week he "reluctantly" recused himself from a dispute that could decide whether state and local government can sue Big Oil in state courts for damages related to greenhouse gas emissions, while suggesting the high court's members shouldn't make a practice of explaining their reasons for stepping away from cases.
Nearly two dozen government accountability groups are calling for Congress to enact a law that would make U.S. Supreme Court justices' papers government property that would someday be available to the public.
Chief Justice John Roberts' order to transfer the Federal Circuit Judicial Council's disability investigation of a suspended 99-year-old judge to another court offers the neutral evaluation the judge has long been asking for, but attorneys are concerned about the transparency of the proceeding.
Senior U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White will retire at the end of the year after nearly a quarter-century on the federal bench in Northern California.
After her sudden death while leading the American Bar Association council that handles law school accreditation, Melissa Hart is being remembered as a passionate and fiercely intelligent jurist, mentor and leader who will be missed as the council navigates numerous challenges to its accreditor status.
