A Connecticut Supreme Court justice wondered Wednesday if a trial court should rely on expert affidavits to determine the law in a foreign jurisdiction, probing whether a "credibility contest" was the right method for deciding that a lawsuit over a massive fatal fire belongs in the Philippines instead of the U.S.
A Connecticut Supreme Court justice wondered Wednesday if a trial court should rely on expert affidavits to determine the law in a foreign jurisdiction, probing whether a "credibility contest" was the right method for deciding that a lawsuit over a massive fatal fire belongs in the Philippines instead of the U.S.
The daughter of billionaire Alexander Vik asked a Connecticut federal judge Wednesday to block Deutsche Bank from litigating a $235 million English debt judgment in Norway and force the German financial giant to accept the two losses it suffered in Connecticut state court while pursuing the money.
A tax assessment and accounting software company claims a Connecticut town gave a competing vendor access to a proprietary taxpayer database it created and the methods behind constructing and using it, improperly sharing trade secrets that the company said the product contains.
A five-attorney family law firm based in Stamford, Connecticut, told a state court that a contract attorney violated her employment agreement by failing to pay a fee for clients who went with her when she started a new practice at the end of her employment.
The owner and manager of a New York City residential property can continue to pursue their negligence claim against their insurance broker after they said the broker failed to provide notice to their insurer about lead paint at the property, the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday.
A First Circuit panel seemed poised on Wednesday to uphold a district court decision finding that the Trump administration lacks the authority to cap indirect costs for research grants at the National Institutes of Health.
The founding bassist of the Grammy-nominated metal band Hatebreed has asked a Connecticut judge not to trim claims from a lawsuit over his sudden termination, saying a new version of the complaint will cure any legal defects identified by the group's vocalist and its business arm.
Recent verdicts in different cases against Johnson & Johnson and Monsanto showcase a trend of multiple punitive damages being awarded to different plaintiffs for the same course of conduct by a single defendant, a practice that should be deemed unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court, says Jacob Mihm at Polales Horton.
Civil litigators can use artificial intelligence tools to strengthen case assessment and aid in early strategy development, as long as they address the risks and ethical considerations that accompany these uses, say attorneys at Barnes & Thornburg.
A Maryland federal judge Thursday handed SCOTUSblog co-founder Tom Goldstein a series of losses on pre-trial motions aimed at trimming the 22 federal tax charges he'll face at trial next year, ruling that many of the motions involved factual disputes fit for trial and keeping the government's case intact.
In a published opinion, the Second Circuit on Thursday ordered a federal district judge to take a fresh look at President Donald Trump's attempt to move his New York hush money conviction to federal court, citing the U.S. Supreme Court's 2024 presidential immunity ruling as grounds for reconsidering the case.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court is urging a federal court to dismiss a suit from a disbarred attorney who claimed his suspension was retaliation for public criticism of the justices and the state bar, saying the high court has sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment.
President Donald Trump has nominated Dan Burrows, a White House official and former chief deputy attorney general of Kansas, to be assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Policy.
The embattled wind-down trustee for defunct life insurance bond seller GWG Holdings in a Houston Chapter 11 case has resigned from the role amid the fallout from her secret romance with a then-bankruptcy judge in the Southern District of Texas.
Aviation expert and former U.S. Department of Transportation senior trial attorney Amna Arshad has joined Amazon as an associate general counsel in charge of the legal teams for its worldwide aviation business, after spending the last year and a half in the aviation and transportation practices at Crowell & Moring LLP.
Two Republican lawmakers have asked Chief Justice John Roberts to rein in judges who've anonymously criticized the U.S. Supreme Court's flurry of "shadow docket" rulings, but a full-on investigation appears unlikely.
