By Scott Graham | August 7, 2017
The Electronic Frontier Foundation scored a win Monday in its assault on a patent that claimed to cover the very idea of a podcast.
By John Council | August 4, 2017
A Texas appellate court has thrown out a legal malpractice case against Fried Frank and one of its New York-based tax partners after finding a former client could not establish jurisdiction in the Lone Star State.
By Cogan Schneier | July 28, 2017
The appeals court sided with a passengers' group that the FAA should reconsider a petition to regulate aircraft seat sizes.
By John Council | July 27, 2017
Guns and booze are a notoriously dangerous combination. But a host's decision to allow both at a barbecue wasn't negligent, a Texas court has ruled.
By John Council | July 26, 2017
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has partially upheld a National Labor Relations Board ruling that workplace rules by cell phone carriers T-Mobile and MetroPCS banning photography or recording on corporate premises illegally restricts its employees from exercising their right to unionize.
By John Council | July 18, 2017
Sometimes, having a "long-planned European vacation" is reason enough to get a person excused from attending to certain duties. But not at the Fifth Circuit.
By Scott Graham | July 10, 2017
The appeals court, doubling down on its standard for proving irreparable harm, asked U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap to reconsider blocking sales of voice-over-IP products and services offered by UK-based Metaswitch Networks.
By Cheryl Miller | July 6, 2017
California and seven other states on Thursday moved to defend Obama-era ozone pollution standards that Attorney General Xavier Becerra said may be left to die under Scott Pruitt's leadership of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
By JOHN COUNCIL | July 5, 2017
Houston lawyer Bill Luyties represents a small Chicago law firm that does no business in Texas, other than when it unwittingly attempted to deposit a huge counterfeit check drawn off an account in the Lone Star State as part of a bank scam. And Luyties recently convinced Houston's First Court of Appeals that the mere act of depositing a phony check is not enough reason to allow a bank to sue the Illinois law firm in a Texas court. And that ruling will be a great relief to other out-of-state law firms who get used by crooks in illegal Texas financial schemes, he said.
By Scott Graham | July 5, 2017
The Federal Circuit on Wednesday ordered Judge Rodney Gilstrap of the Eastern District of Texas to award attorney fees to Newegg, writing that deference to district court judges "is not absolute."
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