New York beat back a federal lawsuit challenging the state's policy barring immigration officials from arresting people near its courthouses, after a federal judge rejected the U.S. Department of Justice's preemption claims.
New York beat back a federal lawsuit challenging the state's policy barring immigration officials from arresting people near its courthouses, after a federal judge rejected the U.S. Department of Justice's preemption claims.
The District Attorneys Association of the State of New York said in a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday that its offices across the state are experiencing a "recruitment and retention crisis," requesting $5 million in funding for a program to address it.
New York Attorney General Letitia A. James has told a Virginia federal court to dismiss the U.S. government's indictment of her, calling it "patently unconstitutional" and "outrageous conduct."
A New York bankruptcy judge gave a bench ruling Tuesday explaining his decision to confirm Purdue's $7.4 billion Chapter 11 plan, which transforms the pharmaceutical giant into a public benefit company, ruling that liability releases fully comply with new restrictions imposed by the U.S. Supreme Court last year.
A New York federal judge on Tuesday rejected Reed Smith LLP's latest effort to intervene on behalf of the purported former owners of international shipping company Eletson Holdings in Eletson's $102 million breach-of-contract litigation with rival Levona, saying the firm can't represent the holding company post-bankruptcy "by repeated incantation."
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday turned their focus to tracing the proceeds from a purported scheme by a former top New York state government staffer to secretly further the interests of the People's Republic of China, calling the defendant's own mother to the stand over a bank account alleged to have been used to move criminal funds.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on Tuesday was hit with a proposed class action stemming from a data breach the firm says happened in April, adding to the growing litigation firms are facing in the aftermath of cyberattacks.
Buyers of the "Hawk Tuah" themed-meme coin want to expand their securities suit with new claims and defendants, including naming the social media star behind the viral phrase, Haliey Welch, as well as her managers.
A Massachusetts federal judge on Tuesday lamented a lack of clear guidance from higher courts as she considered whether wind farm permits can be put on hold indefinitely based solely on a directive from the president.
The Federal Circuit won't rethink any part of a panel's decision that overruled most of a New York federal judge's $4 million infringement judgment against two hospitality providers in a multifaceted appeal over hookless shower curtains.
Drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb and its investment manager can ask the Second Circuit to review a decision from September denying their motion to dismiss a pension dispute for lack of standing, a New York federal judge ruled.
A restaurant worker who claimed he was sexually harassed on the job and underpaid can keep his suit in New York federal court after a judge found that a law barring mandatory arbitration for sexual harassment disputes also shields his wage claims.
A New York state appeals court on Tuesday ordered a new trial for a man sentenced to 14 years in prison in 2022 for attempted murder and other crimes in New York City, finding that the discharge of a juror for allegedly not speaking enough English wasn't supported by the record.
Market makers Citadel Securities LLC and Virtu Americas LLC face a proposed class action alleging they used the illegal trading strategy known as spoofing to manipulate trading prices for a technology company, depressing the issuer's market capitalizations while enriching themselves.
Perrigo Company PLC faces a shareholder class action alleging the company and its top brass failed to disclose critical issues with infant formula operations that it purchased from Nestle and caused stock prices to drop as the issues came to light.
Enhanced US LLC, a sporting event organizer that lets athletes use performance-enhancing drugs, failed to plausibly allege that World Aquatics and others broke antitrust laws by conspiring to thwart its competitions, a New York federal judge said Monday.
A California federal court granted a request on Tuesday from state enforcers asking to participate in a review of the U.S. Department of Justice's controversial settlement allowing Hewlett Packard Enterprise to move ahead with its $14 billion purchase of Juniper Networks.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. asked the Delaware Chancery Court on Monday to cut off any more legal fee advancements to Charlie Javice, the convicted founder of college financial aid startup Frank, saying her demands for fees to appeal her criminal conviction "exceed any semblance of reasonableness."
New York is opposing a recommendation that would give a win to the Seneca Nation and force negotiations over a portion of a thruway that runs through the tribe's reservation, arguing that the report relies on a narrow interpretation of Sherrill laches in contrast to Second Circuit characterization.
A New York federal judge has ordered the Cayuga Nation and defendants in a racketeering suit to submit additional briefing over the Nation's experts in a suit alleging that the defendants conspired to deprive the Nation of funds through an unlicensed tobacco outlet.
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP announced that its mergers and acquisitions group has added a former Proskauer Rose LLP attorney who will also lead the firm's sports practice.
A litigation investor’s recent complaint claiming a New York mass torts lawyer effectively ran a Ponzi scheme illustrates how litigation funding arrangements can subject attorneys to legal ethics dilemmas and potential liability, so engagement letters must have very clear terms, says Matthew Feinberg at Goldberg Segalla.
Multiple firms swiftly fell in line Tuesday evening just hours after Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP announced associate bonuses in line with those offered last year, continuing a long tradition of BigLaw firms following Cravath's lead on compensation.
Perkins Coie LLP's ongoing fight with the Trump administration did not deter a proposed combination with British law firm Ashurst, signaling that the legal community is not worried about fallout from the president's suspension of the firm's security clearances.
Six Republican senators, three of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee, are asking that Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg of the District of Columbia be administratively suspended while Congress considers his impeachment.
A Missouri federal judge sanctioned former counsel for Liberty Mutual Personal Insurance Co. Monday for including citation errors in a motion this fall, finding that, although the attorney likely inserted the errors herself without the use of AI software, "such carelessness, exacerbated by a lack of internal guardrails, is entirely unacceptable."
In an order that noted an attorney's remorse, a Connecticut federal judge sanctioned a solo practitioner $500 this week for submitting a brief packed with false, AI-generated case citations, finding the fake authorities wasted court resources, risked misleading a pro se litigant and undermined trust in the judicial system.
A disbarred attorney was ordered to pay $5.2 million in restitution and serve four years of probation during a Tuesday sentencing hearing in North Carolina federal court, after he pled guilty to a criminal wire fraud charge related to the misuse of escrow funds.
The former CEO of a managed care organization who alleges McGuireWoods and one of its ex-partners defamed him during a press conference more than seven years ago has told North Carolina's top court not to take up the case, panning their petition as yet another stalling tactic.
U.S. District Judge Douglas Harpool of the Western District of Missouri has given notice he will take senior status upon the confirmation of state Judge Megan Benton, whose nomination to the federal bench President Donald Trump announced Friday.
Geof Gradler, a former industry lobbyist who recently joined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's front office, said that he is taking over as the agency's deputy director, a job that positions him as a potential successor to acting director Russell Vought.
