A Fifth Circuit panel pushed a Texas county to explain how a politician's comment that Black people tend to vote for Democrats should weigh on whether a redistricting plan disenfranchises minority voters, asking Monday whether the county acknowledges that race played a factor in the redistricting.
A Fifth Circuit panel pushed a Texas county to explain how a politician's comment that Black people tend to vote for Democrats should weigh on whether a redistricting plan disenfranchises minority voters, asking Monday whether the county acknowledges that race played a factor in the redistricting.
An antitrust case accusing social media platform X of blocking competition was transferred to Texas, after a California federal court found the developer of software used to create artificial intelligence agents that operate on the platform agreed to a forum selection clause.
Finesse Wireless LLC is urging the Federal Circuit to reconsider erasing its $181 million patent verdict against AT&T and Nokia, saying the court conflated regional law in a way that could cause "massive uncertainty."
A Texas bankruptcy judge on Monday granted confirmation of LifeScan Global Corp.'s Chapter 11 plan after the debtor reached an agreement with pharmacy benefit managers that resolved their objections, allowing the glucose-monitor maker to complete a deal to cut about $1.4 billion of debt.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has told the Fifth Circuit that Louisiana and Mississippi utility regulators have no grounds to challenge its approval of a regional grid operator's cap on electricity generation projects evaluated as part of its interconnection process.
The Delaware Chancery Court has refused to toss a suit by Johnson & Johnson, Dow Chemical and other major asbestos-defendant companies that are seeking to block a set of bankruptcy trusts from destroying decades of exposure data.
Texas is looking to intervene in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's pooling of immigrants' personal data into centralized databases to help states purge voter rolls, saying that the challenge jeopardizes a "transformational" tool for doing so.
Smart ring maker Oura has hit Samsung with patent claims in Texas federal court, alleging the Korean electronics giant had been challenging Oura's patents in the U.S. before the launch of its allegedly infringing Samsung Galaxy Ring.
A former Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC client has hit the firm with a professional negligence suit in Texas federal court, saying the firm's allegedly "shoddy, substandard" legal work led to one of the company's patents being almost completely wiped out.
Beverage giant Keurig Dr Pepper on Monday revealed it has secured additional strategic investments for a planned $18.4 billion acquisition of JDE Peet's, with private equity giants KKR, advised by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, and Apollo Global Management, led by Latham & Watkins LLP, plugging $7 billion into the drink company.
Management-side employment law firm Ogletree Deakins announced Monday that a Houston-based shareholder has returned to the firm after serving for more than a year as assistant general counsel to David Weekley Homes.
Squire Patton Boggs LLP announced Monday that it has added a Dallas-based partner to its financial services practice group from K&L Gates LLP who brings substantial experience handling cross-border transactions.
After recent reports that hackers have once again infiltrated federal courts’ electronic case management systems, the judiciary should strengthen its cybersecurity practices in line with executive branch standards, outlining clear roles and responsibilities for execution, says Ilona Cohen at HackerOne.
Bankruptcy trustees for disgraced California attorney Tom Girardi's defunct law firm and New York attorney Joseph DiNardo have filed suit to recover more than $3.1 million they allege should have been paid to a gas explosion settlement victim, but instead went to help finance food and beverage businesses.
U.S. Circuit Judge William Duane Benton of the Eighth Circuit notified the judiciary on Friday that he plans to step back from active service, opening up another seat on the court for President Donald Trump to fill, according to the federal judiciary's online list of future judiciary vacancies.
President Donald Trump has chosen a former Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP partner and top attorney on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's cryptocurrency task force to head the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, tapping the crypto industry advocate to lead an agency struggling with a leadership void.
The U.S. Senate voted on Monday to confirm Rebecca Taibleson, a federal prosecutor in Wisconsin, to the Seventh Circuit, and Justice Bill Lewis of the Alabama Supreme Court to the Middle District of Alabama.
With U.S. Patent and Trademark Office leadership limiting the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's oversight of patent validity disputes, current judges for the tribunal say they are distressed by the recent moves to curb their authority and are looking for work elsewhere amid the instability.
The Executive Office for Immigration Review has hired 11 new permanent immigration judges and 25 temporary ones after more than 100 judges were terminated, reassigned or retired early.
A Connecticut Supreme Court justice said Monday that if the state's human rights watchdog cannot address claims of racial discrimination in attorney licensing, then there is "no oversight" when bias infects the process.
