The Department of Justice’s bankruptcy watchdog is opposing a bankrupt Johnson & Johnson unit’s proposal to retain former acting solicitor general Neal Katyal at nearly $2,500 an hour to work on its Chapter 11 case.

Social media companies are private actors whose rights are protected by the First Amendment, a three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit ruled Monday, upholding part of an injunction against a Florida law penalizing social media companies for banning political candidates from their platforms.

The US Supreme Court ruled two death row inmates can’t raise evidence of ineffective counsel during a federal habeas appeal since they didn’t present it in state court.

Calm.com Inc., the meditation, sleep, and wellness app maker, has hired Anne Hoge as its chief legal officer.

Federal officials and state lawmakers are looking at new ways to help prospective home buyers compete with investors for scarce housing in hot real estate markets.

Judge Leonard P. Stark has straddled two courts—the Federal Circuit and his old stomping ground in the District of Delaware—helping one of the busiest patent venues in the nation as he prepares to hear his first appellate cases.

3M Co. owes an Army veteran $5 million to compensate him for his hearing loss and tinnitus, along with $72.5 million in punitive damages, a federal jury in Florida decided Friday in the latest trial over allegedly ineffective combat earplugs.