From North Carolina, at 6'6", Michael Jordan took the stand Friday in his race team's antitrust trial against NASCAR, telling a jury that he would never jeopardize the sport but that the teams and their drivers deserve more credit from their sanctioning body.
From North Carolina, at 6'6", Michael Jordan took the stand Friday in his race team's antitrust trial against NASCAR, telling a jury that he would never jeopardize the sport but that the teams and their drivers deserve more credit from their sanctioning body.
Skybound Game Studios stole video game designer iam8bit's trade secrets and confidential information to negotiate a deal behind its back to launch "Stray" for the Nintendo Switch with a publisher while cutting iam8bit out of the profits, according to a $4 million fraud suit filed in California state court.
The Ninth Circuit striking down a class action win for transgender employee health plan participants who said their gender-affirming care denials were discriminatory is just one noteworthy Employee Retirement Income Security Act ruling from November. Here's a recap of that ruling and three others.
A California state appeals court has reversed a lower court's decision denying an injury firm co-founding partner's petition to compel arbitration in a dispute with his former law partner over referral and attorney fees, finding that an arbitration clause may be enforceable.
A Washington federal judge has found American Bridge Co. "solely responsible" for months of delays in a Seattle convention center project, concluding that the firm botched a steel work subcontract from the start and broke its promises to the general contractor, a joint venture between Clark Construction Group and Lease Crutcher Lewis.
A power plant owner hit Factory Mutual Insurance Co. with a suit in New York federal court alleging the insurer wrongly withheld at least $14 million in coverage for lost revenue following an outage.
Insurance brokerage Trucordia told the Delaware Chancery Court that it has lost tens of thousands of dollars in annual commission revenue after two former producers diverted clients, employees and confidential information to a competing firm and their new venture in violation of various employment and equity holder agreements.
A North Carolina federal judge trimmed two of four claims in a COVID-related insurance coverage lawsuit filed by four restaurants against Cincinnati Insurance Co. after the insurer denied coverage for financial losses during the pandemic, but told the restaurants they could refile their complaint.
A cannabis entrepreneur can't proceed with a lawsuit accusing the city of Los Angeles of wrongfully taking away her business license, preventing her from operating three long-standing medical marijuana dispensaries, a California state judge has ruled, finding that she never owned most of the licenses.
A Texas federal judge has ruled that a patent-holding company did not actually own a patent it was asserting against a Canadian bank since the agreement transferring the patent rights to it was void as a matter of law, dismissing the company's allegations of infringement.
Pharmaceutical supplier New Life Medicals (USA) Inc. told a North Carolina state court that a former warehouse manager, a freelance contractor and a business partner conspired to steal confidential information to form a competing venture only 10 miles away.
Though agentic artificial intelligence has demonstrated significant promise for optimizing legal work, it presents numerous risks, so specific ethical obligations should be built into the knowledge base of every agentic AI tool used in the legal industry, says Steven Cordero at Akerman LLP.
The number of U.S. lawyers showed marked growth for the first time since 2020, due to a 2024 graduating class that was nearly 12% larger than any other class since 2012, a study from the American Bar Association released Monday showed.
Alina Habba stepped down Monday as acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey following a Third Circuit ruling that she was unlawfully appointed to the position, with the U.S. Department of Justice unveiling that a trio of officials will take on her responsibilities.
The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority pushed back Monday against the 90-year-old precedent permitting the removal only for cause of Federal Trade Commission members, and perhaps those serving other independent agencies, calling those safeguards a "dried husk" and wondering where to draw the line for protected agencies.
The former president of the company behind the Josh Cellars wine brand disputed Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's version of events around his allegedly unpaid legal bills, saying he has questions about the reasonableness of the firm's charges, which must be arbitrated per his contract with the firm.
A Florida federal judge allowed Carlton Fields and its attorneys on Monday to withdraw from representing the plaintiffs in a dispute over the ownership of the Miss America pageant, after the firm said "irreconcilable differences" drew it to ask to step down.
A New Hampshire defense attorney representing a defendant charged for crimes related to the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been sued in D.C. federal court for allegedly stealing a copyrighted study analyzing attitudes in the jury pool of the District of Columbia.
A Florida-based litigation funder has sued two California attorneys and a law firm, alleging they secretly settled a client's civil dispute and steered the money so they wouldn't have to repay over $1.5 million.
The pandemic and initiatives from the second administration of President Donald Trump challenging decades of established scientific norms have made science more politicized, and attorneys say picking a jury and presenting scientific evidence is increasingly challenging.
After appearing in a video encouraging members of the military and intelligence community to not follow illegal orders, Sens. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., and Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., have established legal defense funds.
The National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2026 released Sunday night extends U.S. Supreme Court police protection for retired and former justices and their immediate family members.
The Delaware Chancery Court delivered a busy first week of December, featuring commercial disputes, post-closing merger and acquisition battles and renewed scrutiny of fiduciary conduct ranging from oil and gas investments to healthcare acquisitions.
