By Mike Scarcella | May 19, 2017
Escape the daily flood of Trump news dominating the Washington headlines with this roundup of big regulatory developments. Zillow is facing CFPB scrutiny, Amazon mulls a pharmaceuticals play, Democratic state AGs move to defend a key part of Obamacare, and the SEC is boosting its ranks in new hires from Big Law. And here's a story about ducks at the U.S. Capitol.
By Samantha Joseph | May 18, 2017
Florida-based Am Law 200 firm Shutts & Bowen and Miami partner Kevin Cowan settled an antitrust lawsuit in a case that also raised allegations of wrongdoing against Hinshaw & Culbertson Coral Gables partner Steven Carlyle Cronig.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 18, 2017
Accused of not disclosing payments to two expert witnesses, Houston plaintiffs attorney W. Mark Lanier is throwing a similar charge at Johnson & Johnson's defense.
By Andrew Denney | May 17, 2017
Whether or not former Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard is still a man who knows too much cannot be considered in his effort to loosen the terms of his parole, a federal appellate judge said.
By Andrew Denney | May 16, 2017
Holding the Jordan-based Arab Bank liable for damages caused to the victims of terror attacks could deal a blow to legitimate banking operations in the Middle East and could negatively affect American interests in the region, an attorney for the bank argued Tuesday before a federal appeals court.
By Jason Grant | May 16, 2017
An insurer who underwrote mortgage-backed securities that failed during the 2008 housing crisis must prove all the elements of common-law fraud in its suit against Countrywide Home Loans, a Manhattan appeals court has ruled. "There is no merit to Ambac's contention that Insurance Law §3105 dispenses with the common-law requirement of proving justifiable reliance and loss causation," Justice Richter wrote for the panel.
By ROBERT STORACE | May 16, 2017
Remington and Bushmaster claim the families lack standing to bring the liability lawsuit, and that they are protected by a federal law.
By Greg Land | May 16, 2017
Lawyers on both sides of a debate over the authority of the state's sheriffs to bar private process servers from working in their counties were pressed by an active Georgia Supreme Court bench.
By Marcia Coyle | May 16, 2017
The consequences of discrimination follow transgender students and their classmates into the legal profession, warned the American Bar Association in an amicus brief that urged a federal appellate court to find that such unfairness violates federal civil rights.
By Jenna Greene | May 16, 2017
It was a sad, sordid case, and it came to a merciful end on Friday, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit dismissed it with prejudice, handing a win to lawyers from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan.
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