The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday abandoned its lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase and other major banks over digital payment fraud on Zelle, the latest Biden-era enforcement action to be dropped by the agency's Trump-appointed interim leadership.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday abandoned its lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase and other major banks over digital payment fraud on Zelle, the latest Biden-era enforcement action to be dropped by the agency's Trump-appointed interim leadership.
Employees who claimed Fiat Chrysler and the United Auto Workers conspired to keep about three dozen of them classified as part-time temps for years despite them often performing full-time work had their case tossed Tuesday by an Ohio federal judge, who said they sued too late.
Freezer maker Chart Inc. has dropped its lawsuit alleging one of its suppliers should pay part of a $15 million verdict stemming from an implosion of Chart's cryopreservation tanks in 2018, which destroyed human eggs and embryos, according to an order Monday.
The legal industry is facing an urgent epidemic of loneliness, affecting lawyer well-being, productivity, retention and profitability, and law firm leaders should take concrete steps to encourage the development of genuine workplace connections, says Michelle Gomez at Littler and Gwen Mellor Romans at Herald Talent.
Officials from the U.S. Department of Justice were conspicuously absent Wednesday from the American Bar Association's annual white collar crime conference, leaving organizers scrambling to fill empty panel seats and practitioners guessing as to what the Trump administration's enforcement priorities will be.
Evan Corcoran, who represented President Donald Trump in his classified documents case and Steve Bannon in his contempt of Congress trial, has joined Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP's Washington, D.C., office.
Jeffrey Clark, a former U.S. Department of Justice official who is facing criminal charges in Georgia and fighting to save his law license over claims that he helped President Donald Trump try to overturn the results of the 2020 election, has returned to the federal government.
A Connecticut prosecutor has zeroed in on the vanity license plate that was on Cramer & Anderson LLP partner Robert L. Fisher Jr.'s car when he fatally shot an attacker in June 2021, asking the defendant's character witnesses Wednesday if they knew about it, and if so, what they thought of it.
With jury deliberations in the murder trial of a California judge who fatally shot his wife stretching into their sixth day Wednesday, the presiding judge allowed the prosecution and defense to make additional arguments addressing the jury's question about the willfulness requirement for second-degree murder.
Five of Delaware's most active corporate litigation plaintiffs' firms have branded pending legislation aimed at curbing stockholder suits as a "dangerous and radical" measure that attacks the state's courts and will put Delaware's nationally known incorporation franchise "at grave risk."
An attorney who is a victim of a crime perpetrated by a client or prospective client may disclose client information "to the extent reasonably necessary to report a crime," the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility has found in its latest ethics opinion, released Wednesday.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a D.C. federal judge can require the Trump administration to release up to $2 billion in frozen foreign aid funding, but told the judge he must clarify the scope of the government's responsibility and ensure it has enough time to comply with any deadline.
The House Judiciary Committee voted out of committee three bills on Wednesday along party lines, including legislation to add more federal judgeships that the federal judiciary says are needed desperately but has become subject to partisan fighting.
