Two pharmaceutical companies are still locked in a false advertising and trademark feud over a colonoscopy bowel preparation drug, after a Massachusetts federal judge said Tuesday that there… Read More

The former head of the U.S. Copyright Office has refused to serve in her reassigned role as senior adviser for digital strategy for the Library of Congress, opting to resign instead, library… Read More

The former general counsel of a commodity trading company accused it in a Connecticut federal court suit on Tuesday of age and sex discrimination, contending she was underpaid and that the c… Read More

Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa denied reports on Wednesday that it has agreed to a $103 million settlement with Atlantic City, New Jersey, that was included in a five-year financial plan Read More

AT&T Inc. unveiled an $85.4 billion cash-and-stock takeover of Time Warner Inc. late Saturday, confirming a swirl of media reports over the weekend that the pair were putting the finishi… Read More

A California judge Friday tentatively trimmed a Dole-owned developer’s suit alleging the state wrongly held it liable for contamination at a former Shell oil company site, saying the d… Read More

A former California state senator has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in federal prison after he pled guilty to a federal corruption charge over his acceptance of $150,000 in bribes… Read More

A former aide to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Friday denied sending an email to order the closure of lanes to the George Washington Bridge as an act of political retaliation, saying her… Read More

Private equity magnate Lynn Tilton and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will finally face off Monday over claims Tilton and her firm overcharged investors by more than $200 millio… Read More

A Texas federal judge on Friday said a group of unnamed women suing Baylor University over its response to their reports of sexual assault may amend their complaint and add four additional … Read More

Two Florida counties urged a D.C. federal judge on Friday to vacate the U.S. Department of Transportation’s approval of $1.75 billion in tax-exempt bonds for a Miami-to-Orlando passeng… Read More

Former U.S. Tax Court Judge Diane L. Kroupa pled guilty in Minnesota federal court on Friday to conspiring with her husband to cheat on their taxes during a 10-year stretch, including unders… Read More

The widow of a smoker who died of lung cancer urged a Florida jury Friday to find R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. liable for his death, saying it conspired with other tobacco companies to hide the… Read More

A California judge ruled Friday that a former Blue Shield of California executive accused of divulging confidential records while publicizing the company's alleged abuses of its nonprofit st… Read More

A North Carolina Superior Court judge was found guilty on three corruption charges by a federal jury on Friday after he was accused of bribing an FBI official in exchange for his wife’… Read More

A trio of federal banking regulators recently moved to require that the largest banks and their service providers do more to ensure they can quickly respond to cyberattacks and limit their s… Read More

A Russian man stands accused of hacking into computers belonging to San Francisco-based tech companies LinkedIn Corp., Dropbox Inc. and Formspring Inc. and stealing information and user cred… Read More

Facebook Inc. has told the Delaware Chancery Court that shareholders challenging a plan to create a nonvoting class of stock are trying to “invade the attorney-client privilege wholesa… Read More

A proposed class of investors suing Wells Fargo over the bank’s alleged mishandling of its residential mortgage-backed securities investments informed a New York federal judge Thursday… Read More

Church-affiliated hospital networks in New Jersey and Illinois once again urged the U.S. Supreme Court this week to weigh in on whether employee retirement plans maintained by such organizat… Read More

A sailor whose wife who died of lung disease after decades of smoking cigarettes urged a Florida jury on Friday to award him $5.3 million plus punitive damages against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco… Read More

Renowned opera lover and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will perform for one night only in the Washington National Opera’s upcoming production of “The Daughter of… Read More

Delaware Trust Co. has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to consider pairing its appeal from a disputed $4 billion Energy Future Holdings Co. bankruptcy refinancing deal with another closely watc… Read More

Contractors and contracting officials in the U.S. Department of Defense could soon face additional requirements for cost accounting and keeping track of government property, if a pair of cha… Read More

The Fifth Circuit's ruling Wednesday that Apache Corp. isn't covered for losses stemming from a fraudulent scheme that caused it to reroute vendor payments to a phony account curtails the us… Read More

Texas-based ICI Construction Inc. filed suit in state court Wednesday alleging it's owed at least $4.6 million from the owners of a 326-unit apartment complex it was contracted to build, cla… Read More

A New York appellate court upended a lower court determination Thursday in finding Level 3 Communications LLC's fiber optic cables can't be taxed under state law, although the panel refused… Read More

The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday affirmed a lower court’s decision to grant summary judgment to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in a dispute with insurer St. Paul Mercury&n&hell…Read More

One in two adults in the United States find themselves in an unregulated facial recognition network used by police across the country to run searches on citizens who often haven’t comm… Read More

Democratic Federal Communications Commissioner Mignon Clyburn on Wednesday staked out an ambitious agenda to foster broadband access in rural and low-income communities while promoting next… Read More

Morgan Stanley has ripped into a proposed class's claims that it discriminates against its African-American financial advisers and deprives them of lucrative opportunities, arguing in New Yo… Read More

A Georgia federal judge on Thursday halved a $4 million punitive damages verdict against a Johnson & Johnson unit in a defective pelvish mesh lawsuit, but waxed philosophical about J&amp&hell…Read More

The public has the same right to see a compliance monitor's report tracking HSBC's efforts to combat money laundering as it would a plea deal, a man seeking access to the reports told the Se… Read More

Savanna is reportedly close to paying more than $255 million for a Long Island City office building, a Westdale affiliate is said to have bought 19 properties in Miami for $16.39 million, an… Read More

The California Supreme Court has agreed to settle a question of whether insurance coverage applies to allegations that a construction company’s employee sexually assaulted a student at… Read More

U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara on Thursday said that banks must protect against a culture of silence that prevents employees from reporting misconduct in t… Read More

Recent revelations that Yahoo secretly scanned all of its users' email accounts at the request of U.S. intelligence officials is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to government surve… Read More

In a deeply divided ruling Thursday, the en banc D.C. Circuit upheld the conviction of Osama bin Laden’s former personal assistant for helping plan the 9/11 attacks, rejecting his argu… Read More

Courts have appropriately taken action against Federal Communications Commission overstepping, Republican Commissioner Ajit Pai said Thursday, but the agency continues a wrongheaded focus on… Read More

A U.S. Government Accountability Office report released on Thursday found the Department of Defense has not been assessing the readiness and budget impacts of emergency military assistance d… Read More

A New York federal judge’s decision earlier this week tossing claims against Pfizer Inc. over allegedly underfilled Advil bottles dooms a proposed class action alleging that Mondelez G… Read More

The Federal Communications Commission's recent fact sheet summarizes key points of its draft business data service reform order. Douglas Bonner of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP dis… Read More

A D.C. federal judge on Wednesday "reluctantly" agreed to let the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe file its own complaint as an intervenor in the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's challenge to U.S. Army… Read More

SunEdison has selected Chinese manufacturer GCL-Poly as the winning bidder for the bankrupt renewable energy company’s solar material business with a $150 million proposed purchase pri… Read More

Large chunks of photographer Carol M. Highsmith's 13-count suit claiming for more than $1 billion in damages against Getty Images' American arm and two other corporate defendants could be de… Read More

Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP on Monday said that it is bringing back a securities partner from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP experienced in defending clients in employment an… Read More

A New York federal judge on Monday refused to dismiss charges that a Turkish businessman violated U.S. sanctions against Iran, saying that the government had sufficiently established he coul… Read More

U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch on Sunday criticized the U.S. Department of Justice for challenging a recent Second Circuit decision favoring Microsoft that restricted the government’s ability t… Read More

The D.C. Circuit on Friday paused the American Petroleum Institute’s challenge to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to limit emissions of harmful air pollutants and… Read More

A former Dean Foods director charged alongside a prominent sports bettor over an insider trading scheme tied to pro golfer Phil Mickelson has settled the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commiss… Read More

A consumer suing The Body Shop LLC for printing more than the allowed five digits of cardholders' debit and credit card numbers on receipts, leaving shoppers open to widespread identity thef… Read More

The architect who oversaw the demolition job in the 2013 Philadelphia building collapse that led to seven deaths and 12 injuries denied any personal responsibility Monday, testifying that he… Read More

Sen. John McCain on Monday promised that political gridlock over U.S. Supreme Court nominees will continue — or even worsen — after the election is over Read More

Massachusetts-based janitorial service American Cleaning Co. will pay $195,000 to settle claims that it unlawfully required specific documentation from workers who are non-U.S. citizens in v… Read More

A Florida federal judge held Monday that Wells Fargo can’t force unnamed class members’ claims into arbitration in five suits in multidistrict litigation accusing banks of decept… Read More

The Tenth Circuit on Friday declined to reconsider its August ruling that two Cox cable subscribers who filed putative class actions must arbitrate their claims that the media giant violated… Read More

The D.C. Circuit on Friday allowed a utility consumer advocate group to join in on challenging a move by the Federal Communications Commission to create a federal process to design… Read More

A collection of online industry trade groups asked the U.S. Trade Representative on Monday to insure that free data flows and safe harbors for services providers are included in the internat… Read More

Russian oil producer Rosneft, commodity trading company Trafigura and investment firm United Capital Partners rolled out a record $12.9 billion cash deal on Saturday for Mumbai-based Essar O… Read More

Former Joint Chiefs of Staff Vice Chairman Gen. James Cartwright pled guilty Monday to making false statements after denying to prosecutors that he had revealed classified information to jou… Read More

Princeton University has settled a yearslong lawsuit in New Jersey Tax Court brought by local residents over its property tax exemption by agreeing to pay more than $18 million, accordi… Read More

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has asked the Second Circuit to uphold the agency’s regulations requiring power plants and manufacturing facilities to minimize damage to aquat… Read More

An artist who unsuccessfully sued Jay Z over the logo for the star’s Roc-A-Fella Records asked a federal judge Friday to revive his long-running suit, saying he made a key factual erro… Read More

A group of auto body repair shops asked the Eleventh Circuit on Friday to reinstate their appeal seeking to revive claims against State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. and other insurer… Read More

Investors over the last few weeks have filed claims at the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes targeting Peru, Colombia, Mauritius and others over disputes in indu… Read More

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Friday that it has named a new associate director in its Enforcement Division, promoting a former Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP… Read More

An Illinois federal judge on Friday poured out a proposed class action accusing Starbucks of underfilling its beverages, finding that reasonable consumers would realize that an iced drink wo… Read More

Federal Capital Partners has closed a $512.1 million fund that will target commercial and multifamily properties in the eastern United States, according to an announcement on Friday from the… Read More

A Minnesota federal judge on Friday allowed former hockey players alleging the NHL hid the harmful effects of head injuries to add as a potential class representative the estate of a decease… Read More

J.B. Hunt Transport Inc. truck drivers told the Ninth Circuit on Thursday that a California district court improperly expanded federal preemption to snuff out their proposed class action all… Read More

Jevic Holding Corp. and creditors from the company’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a structured dismissal from the proceedings, pushing back ag… Read More

Citgo asked the Fifth Circuit on Thursday to set aside an $81 million fine stemming from a 2006 oil spill, saying that the federal government erred in calculating how much economic benefit t… Read More

Google Inc. and a staffing agency urged a California judge Friday to trim claims in a putative class action alleging they improperly failed to pay temporary workers owed wages, saying that a… Read More

Fidelity National Information Services Inc. forced systems administrators and hardware planners to keep their cell phones on after hours and to answer work-related calls, texts and emails th… Read More

A Russian woman who said Swedish authorities falsely accused her of tax fraud, seized her land, jailed her and ruined her business relationships has threatened to take the country to arbitra… Read More

The federal government asked the Second Circuit on Thursday to rehear a ruling rejecting its bid to use search warrants to access consumer data stored overseas by service providers like Micr… Read More

A former chief counsel to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Friday that the governor told him that he did not recall speaking with two former public officials about the George Washington B… Read More

The federal government has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a bid by Robert Allen Stanford to appeal his century-long prison sentence for allegedly running a $7 billion Ponzi scheme, s… Read More

UBS Securities LLC and other investment banks have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Second Circuit's split ruling that the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement A… Read More

The Ninth Circuit joined two other appeals courts Friday and ruled the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act does not ban forced arbitration, upholding a decision to dism… Read More

A shareholder of computer networking technology company Infoblox Inc. asked a Delaware Chancery judge Thursday to speed her suit against the company’s directors in an effort to prevent… Read More

The Illinois attorney discipline commission on Thursday asked the state high court to suspend a county court judicial candidate and bar her from assuming the bench for previously donning rob… Read More

A California federal judge on Thursday dismissed a putative class action filed against Bank of America Inc. and others alleging violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act over background ch… Read More

A physician contact website accusing Craigslist Inc. of patent infringement hit three Latham & Watkins LLP attorneys with a motion for sanctions in California federal court on Tuesday, c… Read More

The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a $30 million verdict against two Enterprise Products Partners LP units stemming from a 2010 Texas pipeline explosion that led to the demise of a… Read More

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a Florida insurance recovery company's petition seeking to revive claims against Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida Inc. and settle whether entiti… Read More

The conservative wing of the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed concern that allowing lawyers to present testimony of racial bias in the jury room would open the floodgates to a host of… Read More

Real estate investment trust Tritax Big Box REIT PLC said Tuesday that it has struck a deal to purchase two large-scale logistics facilities in the U.K. for a total of £115.5 million (… Read More

AIG Specialty Insurance Co. asked for judgment on the pleadings Friday on two claims in a $30 million suit over coverage for an underlying whistleblower action accusing Office… Read More

Strata Equity Group Inc. has picked up a portfolio of 24 multifamily properties from an affiliate of DRA Advisors LLC for more than $720 million, according to an announcement Monday from CBR… Read More

The Foo Fighters have resolved an insurance coverage suit accusing various London insurers of failing to cover losses due to several shows that were canceled after the Paris terrorist attack… Read More

A Delaware Chancery judge late Friday gave an investor in an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group LLC another chance to challenge its $1.4 billion purchase of Home Loan Servicing Solutions… Read More

Marathon Petroleum Company LP filed a suit in federal court in Texas on Tuesday against BP products North America, alleging that BP's refinery and other properties were out of compliance wit… Read More

President Barack Obama on Tuesday renewed a call to send manned missions to Mars by the 2030s, highlighting the federal government’s recent work with commercial partners on technology… Read More

2016 is on pace to log the fewest number of new patent cases since 2011, according to a quarterly intellectual property litigation trends report released on Tuesday by legal analytics firm L… Read More

St. Jude Medical Inc. warned Tuesday that the batteries in some of its implantable heart devices can short circuit and run out of energy earlier than expected, an issue the company says is r… Read More

The U.S. Department of Commerce has canceled its review of countervailing duties on Chinese high-pressure steel cylinders, saying that all parties that had asked for the review have withdraw… Read More

Anheuser-Busch InBev's $100 billion merger with its largest rival, SAB Miller, presents all the complications of a law school final exam and rightly may be viewed as a paradigm of the modern… Read More

One law firm has handled close to $4 billion in hotel mergers and acquisitions through the first three quarters of 2016, distancing itself from its next-closest competitor by more than $400… Read More

Federal prosecutors want the former CEO of two nonprofit health clinics that received federal funds to spend 27 years in jail and pay $16.6 million in restitution, after he was found guilty… Read More