A Scottsdale man’s 2013 conviction for willfully filing false tax returns doesn’t bar him from collaterally attacking civil penalties assessed over his alleged failure to report foreign bank accounts, a federal court in Arizona said.

A Pennsylvania man convicted of cocaine possession with intent to distribute will be resentenced after an appeals court determined Friday that the government didn’t find enough cocaine to support the charge.

A judge on the DC Circuit used the crime hot spot theory as a factor to uphold a protective search in a high crime area of Washington, while the other judge that upheld the stop did all she could to distance the court from the theory.

General Motors must comply with an injured worker’s discovery requests, giving him a chance to bring a civil suit against the company and avoid Michigan’s workers compensation system, the state high court ruled Friday.

A barge owner isn’t liable to a customer’s Bobcat skid steer operator, who was injured while cleaning out the bottom of a vessel before his employer used it, the Seventh Circuit said.

Law firms that rake in dollars defending companies against cyberattack lawsuits are increasingly finding themselves targets, with five class actions filed so far this year alleging the legal operations failed to protect client data.