A New York bankruptcy judge agreed to confirm the $7.4 billion Chapter 11 plan of Purdue Pharma LP on Friday, saying he would issue a formal bench ruling next Tuesday explaining his decision.
A New York bankruptcy judge agreed to confirm the $7.4 billion Chapter 11 plan of Purdue Pharma LP on Friday, saying he would issue a formal bench ruling next Tuesday explaining his decision.
Attorneys representing Camp Lejeune toxic water litigants are urging a North Carolina federal court to expedite the upcoming set of bellwether cases, saying the government shouldn't be allowed to cause delay through unnecessary and excessive briefs that together are longer than "Moby Dick."
Families of victims of the 737 Max 8 crashes have asked the Fifth Circuit to overrule the U.S. Department of Justice's refusal to criminally prosecute Boeing for conspiring to defraud safety regulators, but experts say such a move may be a long shot.
TikTok, Meta and Google filed separate suits against California Attorney General Rob Bonta in federal court on Thursday seeking to block the state from enforcing a new law's requirement for parental consent before online platforms can deliver personalized content feeds to children, saying the provision infringes on their First Amendment rights.
American Alliance for Equal Rights, a group known for challenging diversity, equity and inclusion scholarships, has set its sights on Michigan personal injury firm Buckfire & Buckfire PC for alleged discrimination via the firm's scholarship programs for minorities.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday tapped Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton to investigate Jeffrey Epstein's ties to JPMorgan Chase & Co., former President Bill Clinton and others after President Donald Trump called for the probe while claiming that his alleged links to the financier were a "hoax."
The Eleventh Circuit has confirmed the federal hate crimes and kidnapping convictions of the murderers of Georgia's Ahmaud Arbery, holding Friday that federal prosecutors had marshaled "substantial evidence" to show the men acted out of racist intent in killing the 25-year-old Black jogger.
A split Ninth Circuit panel revived a Ugandan man's removal case, with the majority ruling that immigration courts wrongly brushed off his claims of ineffective counsel.
Two gaming machine companies, a convenience store owner, and a convicted murderer have been hit with a $15.3 million verdict in a lawsuit filed by the family of a Pennsylvania store clerk who was fatally shot during a 2020 robbery alleged to have been prompted by the presence of skill games on the premises.
An Ohio appeals court on Friday reinstated a woman's medical malpractice claim alleging she suffered a brain injury as a result of a failed intubation, saying the trial court was too hasty in determining that her claims were filed outside the state's one-year statute of limitations.
Mining company Freeport-McMoRan Inc. faces a proposed investor class action alleging the company concealed safety risks at its copper mine in Indonesia, hurting investors after its trading prices fell when a landslide at the mine killed two workers and left others missing.
Junior hockey players have asked the Ninth Circuit to reverse a lower court toss of their wage suppression suit against the National Hockey League and Canadian leagues, arguing that the territorial reach of U.S. antitrust laws gives United States federal courts jurisdiction.
The merger announced Monday between British legal giant Ashurst LLP and American law firm Perkins Coie LLP is the latest in a spate of deals driven, in part, by an appetite among global firms to gain a strong presence in the U.S.
Holland & Knight LLP has forfeited a malpractice lawsuit in Alaska by refusing to turn over information to a Native American tribal corporation, with a state judge entering a default judgment as a sanction and calling the firm's conduct "a head scratcher" and "astounding."
A Virginia federal magistrate judge Monday ordered the disclosure of all grand jury materials related to the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, saying government misconduct may have tainted the grand jury proceedings.
A newly released legal opinion from the U.S. Department of Justice says the Trump administration is allowed to detail military lawyers to serve as immigration judges and special assistant U.S. attorneys in the District of Columbia.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., accused President Donald Trump on Monday of skirting the process to nominate U.S. attorneys in Wisconsin with his pick of a failed Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate for the office that covers Milwaukee.
The Delaware Chancery Court and Delaware Supreme Court last week had a dense slate of fiduciary duty battles, merger-process challenges, post-bankruptcy fights and a series of cases probing the limits of fraud pleading, credible-basis inspections and board-level disclosure duties.
The Law School Admission Council is continuing its push to toss a proposed class action accusing it of fixing application fees with its member schools, saying in a Pennsylvania federal court filing last week that the applicant's opposition to its dismissal motion "entirely fails to engage with the incoherence at the core of his case."
Melissa Holyoak left the Federal Trade Commission on Monday to become Utah's interim U.S. attorney, leaving the FTC down to two commissioners, both Republicans, in the Trump administration's latest use of interim U.S. attorney appointments.
