Ex-Katten Atty Betrayed Client, Feds Say As Trial Starts

A California judge on Friday tossed a jury award of $417 million from Johnson & Johnson to a woman who claimed the company's baby powder gave her ovarian cancer, finding the plaintiff relied on speculative expert testimony that failed to link talcum powder to cancer.

A three-judge panel for the D.C. Circuit on Friday nixed a lower court order requiring the federal government to allow an immigrant teenager to have an abortion, giving U.S. Health and Human Services until the end of the month for the young woman to be released to a sponsor.

A Hawaii federal judge on Friday extended a temporary restraining order blocking much of the Trump administration’s third travel ban by converting it into a preliminary injunction, saying he would not stay his ruling for the Department of Justice’s anticipated appeal.

A Federal Circuit panel affirmed Friday a Delaware federal jury’s finding that a mapping patent Art+Com Innovationpool GmbH had accused Google Earth of infringing in a $106 million case was invalid as anticipated.

The Ninth Circuit on Friday affirmed a district court’s finding that Sony Computer Interactive Entertainment’s “Gran Turismo” video games are protected by the First Amendment as expressive works and haven’t infringed trademarks owned by a European flooring company, Virag SRL.

The Delaware Chancery Court can hear Dow Chemical's claims that Turkish paint company Organik stole its trade secrets by hiring its ex-employees, a judge ruled Thursday, finding that Organik's Delaware subsidiary gives the court jurisdiction. 

President Donald Trump lost his bid to escape Seattle and Portland’s lawsuit over his executive order limiting federal funds to so-called sanctuary cities, after a Washington federal court ruled Thursday that the order’s future consequences have already affected both cities.

Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday appealed his criminal contempt conviction to the Ninth Circuit, after an Arizona federal judge didn't buy his argument that a presidential pardon should completely void the case.

A senior investigative reporter for BuzzFeed News on Thursday filed suit against the CIA in D.C. federal court seeking documents related to alleged U.S. payments to Syrian rebels referenced in a July tweet by President Donald Trump.

The Second Circuit reversed one aspect of the confirmed Chapter 11 plan of silicone maker Momentive Performance Materials Inc. on Friday, saying a New York bankruptcy court wrongly calculated the interest due on notes held by senior secured creditors and telling it to try again.

The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday pledged to maintain the proposed amount of renewable fuels that must be blended into the nation's transportation fuel supply in 2018 and hold off on major changes to the agency's renewable fuels program, bowing to pressure from Midwestern senators representing corn-producing states.

A California federal judge on Thursday rejected Google affiliate Waymo’s latest bid to get its hands on Uber’s self-driving car source code in its trade secrets suit, saying that a magistrate judge’s recent decision calling the request “profoundly overbroad” was neither clearly wrong or contrary to law.