Overruling its own precedent governing Federal Railroad Safety Act claims, the Second Circuit on Tuesday said a jury should decide whether CSX Transportation Inc. used a safety violation to justify firing a freight train conductor who had accused two supervisors of ordering him to falsify performance records.
Overruling its own precedent governing Federal Railroad Safety Act claims, the Second Circuit on Tuesday said a jury should decide whether CSX Transportation Inc. used a safety violation to justify firing a freight train conductor who had accused two supervisors of ordering him to falsify performance records.
Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC has told the Connecticut federal court it blocked a former Webster Bank general counsel from drawing money from five accounts totaling close to $178,000 in response to recent garnishment actions, presumably filed by prosecutors to satisfy part of a $7.4 million fraud restitution order.
A New York jury had enough evidence to hold retired financier Howard Rubin liable for sex trafficking after six women testified that he lured them with promises of money, travel and modeling opportunities and then subjected them to violent, nonconsensual acts, the Second Circuit has ruled in upholding a $3.85 million civil verdict.
Washington and 19 other states launched a lawsuit Tuesday against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Rhode Island federal court, seeking to stop abrupt policy changes they claim will result in tens of thousands of formerly homeless people being ousted from publicly subsidized housing and onto the streets.
A Second Circuit panel has sided with the City of New York and a housing nonprofit in tossing arguments from a landlord that a law to prevent discrimination against the use of housing vouchers is unconstitutional.
A split Second Circuit panel revived a Guatemalan man's bid for deportation relief under the United Nations Convention Against Torture, ruling immigration courts used the wrong standard to consider whether he would be tortured by gang members if returned there.
Solar energy company PosiGen has entered into bankruptcy in Texas lugging at least $100 million in debt roughly a month after it was sued in a case alleging a breach of loan agreements.
The Second Circuit recently concluded in U.S. v. Phillips that the Commodity Exchange Act extends to entirely foreign conduct if a victim of the conduct is based in the U.S., suggesting there is a heightened risk that foreign swap transactions will be susceptible to U.S. regulation when U.S. counterparties are involved, say attorneys at Skadden.
To successfully leverage the common-interest doctrine in a multiparty transaction or complex litigation, practitioners should be able to demonstrate that the parties intended for it to apply, that an underlying privilege like attorney-client has attached, and guard against disclosures that could waive privilege and defeat its purpose, say attorneys at DLA Piper.
Two federal judges, both of whom Republicans are looking to impeach, declined to testify before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing next week on the impeachment of "rogue" judges, a source familiar with the situation told Law360 on Tuesday.
A longtime official at the U.S. Department of Justice who was fired after he was secretly recorded discussing the Epstein files has sued the agency and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi in D.C. federal court.
Senate Democrats are turning to public records requests to learn more about the controversial tenure of U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove while he served at the U.S. Department of Justice, claiming that they're being "stonewalled" by the department.
The Federal Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a California judge's decision that a client of embattled intellectual property firm Ramey LLP must pay nearly $255,000 in fees and sanctions for bringing a "frivolous" patent suit against Google, finding the award to be "entirely proper."
A Florida federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of a law school student who was expelled after he was investigated over antisemitic posts on social media, saying the university didn't prove his speech "constituted a true threat."
An attorney who sued a Houston-based law firm alleging she was fired in retaliation for having complained about age discrimination has reached "a tentative agreement" to resolve the matter, according to a filing in Illinois federal court.
A former Husch Blackwell LLP partner's claim that the firm violated federal law by withholding monthly retirement account contributions misidentified the funds in question as participant contributions, when they were, in fact, contributions from the firm's year-end profit-sharing program.
