Politicians can’t agree who should fill vacancies on the nation’s most reliably conservative appellate court. If the logjam lasts past November, the court may take a turn to the left.
Despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld a federal ban on late-term abortions, the Richmond, Va.-based 4th Circuit struck down Virginia’s late-term law as unconstitutional.
A recent law grad working on a massive diet drug case got a $3 million bonus and a Porsche when the civil fen-phen litigation settled for $200 million in 2001.
An Internet site about a federal lawsuit that 38 Duke University men’s lacrosse team players on the 2006 team filed against the school and the city of Durham,…
A federal judge in Virginia has ruled the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office doesn’t have the authority to make rule changes designed to streamline the patent process.
Defense Department officials told the New York Times that a review has turned up 50 videotapes of interrogations at military facilities that show interrogations of two…
In the latest salvo in a contentious dispute by a former Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice client over the firm’s representation of an adverse party, the former client, Advanced Internet…
The 38 members of the 2006 men’s lacrosse team at Duke University reportedly plan to sue the school in federal court today, contending that Duke officials remained silent about exonerating…
A federal judge has upheld the $2.9 million in compensatory damages awarded to the father of a fallen U.S. Marine whose funeral was picketed by a fringe Kansas church. But…
The fallout continues over a botched investigation and prosecution of an escort service dancer’s allegations—eventually determined to be false—that she was gang-raped in March 2006 by former members of the…
A $30 million payday is pending for a Virginia company that owns a patent on the “Buy It Now” mechanism that allows online eBay auction bidders the alternative of purchasing…