The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it won't decide if companies can run a credit report before the potential customer initiates a transaction, denying the review bid by a woman who claimed a solar panel scam had saddled her with $100,000 in debt.
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it won't decide if companies can run a credit report before the potential customer initiates a transaction, denying the review bid by a woman who claimed a solar panel scam had saddled her with $100,000 in debt.
The Seventh Circuit on Monday said the former Commonwealth Edison CEO and an ex-lobbyist convicted of conspiring to funnel jobs and payments to allies of ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan are entitled to a new trial, but not acquittal, after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling invalidated the legal theories behind those convictions.
A Permanent Court of Arbitration tribunal concluded in a dispute over energy and fisheries resources that Russia violated certain obligations under international law in waters surrounding Crimea, but it declined to award Ukraine any reparations in the decision that both sides characterized Monday as a win.
Aerospace engine maker Doncasters Group on Monday outlined plans to raise around $700 million in its initial public offering led by White & Case LLP and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is asking the D.C. Circuit to dismiss its appeal to a decision that found its efforts to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline were premature after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a new environmental impact statement for the project last month.
An oilfield driller who received a fixed salary alongside variable day rates was paid on a salary basis and therefore was exempt from federal overtime requirements, the Fifth Circuit held, reversing a lower court's ruling in a collective action against oilfield services giant SLB.
The master of a ghost fleet crude oil tanker with ties to Venezuela has pled guilty in D.C. federal court to ignoring U.S. Coast Guard orders during a weeklong pursuit as it was transporting Iranian oil to Asia, putting lives at risk, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
A former Apache Corp. employee asked a Texas federal judge to undo a prior order granting her employer judgment as a matter of law midtrial, telling the court that her claims should have gone before a jury to decide.
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is seeking information from several major private equity firms about their involvement in artificial intelligence data center development and operations, saying the increasing number of data centers across the country is putting pressure on American families and driving up utility costs.
Individual class members in litigation alleging General Motors sold Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles with defective batteries are urging the Sixth Circuit to reverse the decision of a Michigan federal court that rejected their opt-outs in a $150 million settlement for not being signed on paper.
A California soda ash and borate mining operation filed for Chapter 11 protection Monday in Delaware bankruptcy court with $85.5 million of secured debt and plans to sell its assets.
Bracewell LLP announced Monday that it has added a pair of former Winston & Strawn LLP lawyers to its oil and gas transactions group in Houston, including the former co-chair of the energy and infrastructure group.
Recently proposed federal legislation governing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances would not only phase out nonessential uses of PFAS and prohibit detectable environmental releases, but would also expand liability in ways that will matter to companies with current or historical PFAS exposure, says Ayodeji Ayolola at Gordon Rees.
Government lawyers had a strong success rate in federal courts over the last three years, but intellectual property litigation saw certain firms secure damage awards worth hundreds of millions of dollars for clients, according to Lex Machina's Law Firms Activity Report 2026 released on Tuesday.
A Maryland federal judge on Tuesday denied SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein's bid for an acquittal or new trial, rejecting his claims that issues with jury instructions and excluded evidence warranted a do-over in his tax evasion and mortgage fraud case.
A Democratic-led Senate resolution that would have blocked a U.S. Department of Justice rule directing its Board of Immigration Appeals to quickly dismiss cases that don't raise "novel" issues failed to pass Tuesday.
A Georgia criminal defense and personal injury attorney serving a seven-year prison term for threatening and intimidating court personnel, including members of the district attorney's office and a Superior Court judge, was stripped of his state law license on Tuesday.
Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche's nomination hearing is a month away, and the fate of his confirmation is likely in the hands of Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and John Cornyn, R-Texas.
Brazil asked Monday to intervene and dismiss a suit by President Donald Trump's media company and online video-sharing platform Rumble Inc. against a Brazilian Supreme Federal Court justice's gag orders, saying the suit cannot overcome immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
The Fourth Circuit has scheduled in-person oral arguments for the Trump administration's appeal of the dismissals of indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James for Sept. 15-18.
A State Bar of California prosecutor argued Tuesday at a disciplinary trial that ex-Girardi Keese attorney Robert Finnerty hid the firm's misappropriation of millions of dollars from a family's $53 million settlement, while Finnerty's counsel countered he's being blamed for the actions of his former boss, convicted and disbarred attorney Tom Girardi.
