The vice president of a Miami-based seafood wholesale company on Tuesday pled guilty in Florida federal court to scheming with competitors to fix the prices paid to fishermen for stone crab claws and spiny lobster.
The vice president of a Miami-based seafood wholesale company on Tuesday pled guilty in Florida federal court to scheming with competitors to fix the prices paid to fishermen for stone crab claws and spiny lobster.
Several organizations have filed a petition with the Ninth Circuit contesting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's decision to renege on a Biden-era proposal that would've levied stricter rules of how much meat and poultry slaughtering, processing, and rendering facilities could discharge pollutants into nearby waterways.
Fred Meyer broke Washington state law in barring nearly 13,000 of its low-wage workers from holding other jobs to make ends meet, according to a proposed class action removed to Seattle federal court.
A group of Democratic U.S. senators on Tuesday urged the chamber's leaders not to adopt language in an appropriations bill that would drastically redefine the definition of legal hemp and which they say could ruin the nationwide hemp industry.
A former city attorney for Miami on Monday knocked down claims against her from a pair of business owners accusing her of taking part in a political retaliation scheme when a Florida federal judge ruled that she was immune from the allegations.
A brewery owner challenging the U.S. tax code's ban on home distilleries criticized the government's claim that he isn't hurt enough by the prohibition to warrant a suit, telling the Sixth Circuit that the ban prevents him from making whiskey at home and renders him ineligible for a distilling permit.
Two Connecticut delivery drivers asked the Second Circuit on Tuesday to reverse an order sending their employment misclassification lawsuit to arbitration, arguing the Federal Arbitration Act doesn't apply to workers engaged in interstate commerce and cuts through contracts that purportedly cast them as independent contractors.
A Kentucky federal judge on Monday upheld a Federal Reserve Board cap on debit-card swipe fees that a local merchant challenged as overly generous to banks, breaking with a North Dakota federal court that recently rejected the same regulation.
For new associates joining firms this fall, stepping into the world of e-discovery can feel like learning a new language, but understanding a handful of fundamentals — from coding layouts to metadata — can help attorneys become fluent in document review, says Ann Motl at Bowman and Brooke.
The federal judiciary's leaders heard sharp criticism at a private meeting Tuesday regarding the U.S. Supreme Court's increasing willingness to block lower court decisions, according to remarks released publicly, and one of those leaders subsequently deflected requests for details during an official briefing.
John MacGregor of Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP didn't have any experience in healthcare law before taking on a pro bono client that supports people with a rare form of epilepsy. MacGregor's son is one of them.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP announced Tuesday that the nearly decade-long head of its private equity practice will step up to co-lead the firm as its joint chairman at the start of 2027.
Those looking to change the nation's laws first need to understand how they work and why they are in place, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told a packed auditorium at New York Law School on Tuesday.
The pool of patent practitioners registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has undergone a dramatic shift over the past few decades, with the number of attorneys taking the bar exam decreasing at the same time more patent agents are entering the field.
The U.S. Department of Justice has requested that assault charges not be dismissed against U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver, pushing back on claims the government is selectively prosecuting her following a confrontation with federal agents in May at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Newark.
Former Bankruptcy Judge David R. Jones wants out of a lawsuit claiming his secret romance scandal infected the restructuring of life insurance bond seller GWG Holdings Inc., arguing that he's clearly protected by judicial immunity.
A former Husch Blackwell LLP attorney sued the firm in Missouri federal court Tuesday, claiming it violated federal benefits law by delaying sending employees' 401(k) contributions to their retirement plan so that the cash could be used to pay for the firm's operating expenses.
The House Republicans unveiled their short-term spending bill Tuesday, and it includes an extra $28 million for security for the U.S. Supreme Court justices.
A former client of Hall Booth Smith PC and its attorney allege the law firm botched its legal representation in an underlying suit related to a death at an indoor shooting range and caused the insurer $10.6 million in financial harm, according to a legal malpractice suit lodged in Georgia state court.
The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review a lower court's ruling disqualifying Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the 2020 Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and his co-defendants.
