Two brothers sentenced to 60 years to life in prison for murdering their parents as juveniles should be resentenced, the Pennsylvania Superior Court said, finding that the judge determining punishment for the 1995 crimes should have recused himself because he prosecuted their co-defendant.
Two brothers sentenced to 60 years to life in prison for murdering their parents as juveniles should be resentenced, the Pennsylvania Superior Court said, finding that the judge determining punishment for the 1995 crimes should have recused himself because he prosecuted their co-defendant.
Viamedia Inc. asked an Illinois federal judge to allow a post-discovery witness addition to an upcoming trial against Comcast over competition in the cable ad sales market, saying it discovered the man's relevant knowledge after he joined Viamedia's board.
UPS did not violate an arbitration award when it subtracted a temporarily fired worker's unemployment benefits from her back pay, since the arbitration panel later clarified that was what its award intended, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Monday.
Industrial fastener company Peninsula Components has asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to upend a jury verdict holding it liable for trademark infringement for using the PEM name in Google Ads, arguing that Penn Engineering & Manufacturing Corp., the competitor suing it, did not own the trademark.
A father and son targeted by Ecuador's state-owned oil shipping company in a $650 million lawsuit over events at the heart of a corruption and impeachment scandal involving former Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso told a Pennsylvania federal court that the dispute belongs in arbitration.
With the addition of a handful of lateral hires at the start of the new year, Chartwell Law Offices LLP has crossed the 300-attorney mark and evolved from what started 24 years ago as a four-person insurance law boutique operating in the Philadelphia suburbs into a 39-office firm.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a New Jersey man's conviction for unlawfully possessing a firearm as a felon, a case that asked if a lawyer could admit part of a crime on a client's behalf when the client himself objected.
Native American tribes' response to the expansion of sports-based prediction markets enters a decisive phase this year, with appellate courts positioned to address whether federal commodities law permits nationwide offering of sports-based event contracts free from state and tribal gaming regulation, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
Arizona Court of Appeals Judge Samuel A. Thumma writes that generative artificial intelligence tools offer a profound opportunity to enhance access to justice and engender public confidence in courts’ use of technology, and judges can seize this opportunity in five key ways.
Day two of jury selection in Tom Goldstein's tax and mortgage fraud case wrapped without a jury being seated Tuesday, but did reveal that the government could call celebrities Tobey Maguire and Kevin Hart to the stand.
A former tax partner at Duane Morris LLP's Chicago office has been charged with killing his wife a little more than a year ago, according to an announcement made Tuesday by Illinois prosecutors.
Johnson & Johnson's talc unit told a New Jersey appeals panel on Tuesday that a lower court's ruling permitting Beasley Allen Law Firm attorneys to represent plaintiffs in multicounty litigation over its talc-based baby powder "sends a very bad signal" to the state bar.
A disbarred attorney was hit with new charges claiming that he induced a witness to commit perjury and obstructed justice in the federal investigation of an insurance scam involving staged car crashes in the New Orleans area.
Lindsey Halligan said Tuesday that she is still the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia despite a recent ruling to the contrary, dismissing a federal judge's questions about why she's still using the title as an "inquisition" and a "gross abuse of power."
A Delaware bankruptcy judge Tuesday rejected a bid by two bankrupt entities tied to the former Hudson Hotel to retain DLA Piper LLP as special counsel in their Chapter 11 case, saying the law firm's work for the entities' lender presented a conflict of interest.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., ranking member of the courts panel on the Senate Judiciary Committee, is calling for Attorney General Pam Bondi to release the results of the disciplinary complaint she filed against Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of the District of Columbia when the investigation wraps up.
Former special counsel Jack Smith is slated to testify publicly before the House Judiciary Committee on Jan. 22 after, according to his attorney, having been "ready and willing" to do so for a while.
The Fourth Circuit has granted the Trump administration's request to combine its previously separate appeals of the dismissals of prosecutions against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
