The New Jersey Supreme Court has denied Beasley Allen’s appeal to let the firm back into the massive Johnson & Johnson talc litigation in state court, letting stand the firm’s novel ethics breach disqualification.

Federal appeals court judges butted heads about the role of the Supreme Court’s emergency docket and how much weight lower courts should give those orders, with one judge lamenting his colleague’s “rhetorical assault” on the high court.

Mass tort plaintiffs’ firm Slater Slater Schulman LLP said a Delaware bankruptcy court lacks jurisdiction to adjudicate a feud with former clients seeking to terminate contingency fee arrangements stemming from the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor moves a bit slower than when she joined the Supreme Court 17 years ago and no longer roams the auditorium like a talk show host, something that made the pioneering Latina justice seem all the more approachable, a shift she says is at the direction of her security detail.

Hicks Thomas LLP is disqualified from a 17-year-old case in Texas after failing to disclose that one of its legal assistants previously worked on the litigation for the opposing party, the state supreme court ruled Friday.

After US Justice Department lawyers disclosed last month that they relied on incorrect information to defend migrant arrests, a federal judge in Manhattan ordered them to preserve all internal communications — often an ominous sign of a future inquiry.