Vietnam’s detention of a prominent environmentalist and the staff of the non-profit she founded “are part of a concerning pattern of arrests of local environmental and civil society advocates” in the Communist country, the US State Department said in a statement.
Two conservative Michigan Court of Appeals judges are seeking broader support from their colleagues for a state high court precedent challenge that could alter the course of potentially hundreds of lawsuits filed during the Covid-19 pandemic.
A Teamsters pension fund advanced its lawsuit seeking more than $250,000 in withdrawal liability from Event Productions Inc., but the Illinois company is owed nearly $50,000 in attorneys’ fees after its successful sanctions motion.
A man accused of bribing a former Illinois state Rep. Luis Arroyo (D) can’t avoid indictment based on the Constitution’s speech or debate clause, the Seventh Circuit said.
The desire of law firms and their clients for litigation finance is running into the tight financial markets, leaving too few dollars for a burgeoning demand.
Validity Capital plans to lay off half its staff after its financial backer decided to cut investments in the litigation finance firm.
A federal trial court must decide whether two men who pleaded guilty to drug charges can withdraw their pleas based on their attorneys’ purported conflicts of interest, the Eleventh Circuit ruled.
Chesa Boudin, who voters booted from his role as San Francisco’s district attorney last year, has been hired by the University of California Berkeley to run a new criminal justice center.
Former OptimisCorp board members are on the hook for trying to keep millions in damages they won on the physical therapy company’s behalf, a Delaware judge ruled Thursday.
A law firm had no way of knowing in advance one of its attorneys would sexually harass and assault a client, an Illinois appellate court said Wednesday in a decision tossing the woman’s negligence lawsuit.
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