Market to manage electronic documents in a state of flux

Last year, more than 30 major e-discovery companies were acquired or merged, or they disappeared. To an outside observer, it looks like an industry that is shrinking or contracting. But at the same time, venture capital firms poured millions of dollars into startups and upstart companies offering technology to manage electronic documents in litigation. It’s enough to make lawyers wonder: Is it an industry in decline or on the rise?

Nov 1, 2017 1:10 AM CDT

Sessions blasts judges issuing nationwide injunctions, calls them ‘super-legislators’

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday criticized judges who have issued nationwide injunctions that blocked Trump administration policies, calling the judges “super-legislators for the entire United States.”

Oct 26, 2017 3:22 PM CDT

Missouri appeals court tosses $72M talcum powder verdict, says suit was filed in wrong state

A $72 million verdict in a suit contending that talcum powder causes cancer has been overturned as a result of a U.S. Supreme Court decision in June that limited the jurisdictional reach of state courts. The Missouri Court of Appeals on Tuesday overturned the verdict obtained by the family of…

Oct 17, 2017 1:55 PM CDT

Injured police officer can’t sue Black Lives Matter or its hashtag, judge rules

A federal judge in Louisiana has ruled that Black Lives Matter is a social movement, rather than an entity, and it cannot be sued. The decision by U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson tossed a lawsuit by an injured police officer against the movement and activist DeRay Mckesson, report the Washington…

Sep 29, 2017 11:59 AM CDT

NFL seeks to reinstate suspension for Cowboys’ Ezekiel Elliott

The NFL is seeking to reinstate a six-game suspension imposed by an arbitrator against Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott. The NFL is asking U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant of Texas for a stay pending appeal of the preliminary injunction he issued Friday that allows Elliott to play. The request…

Sep 11, 2017 1:58 PM CDT

Law Practice: A Natural Successor

Sep 1, 2017 1:25 AM CDT

Court limits where plaintiffs can bring claims in three rulings

This Supreme Court term turned out to be important for civil procedure, with three significant rulings on personal jurisdiction—when a court has control of the particular parties in a case.

Aug 1, 2017 1:20 AM CDT

Lawyers accused of forum shopping for settlement approval win reversal of federal sanctions

A federal appeals court has ruled class action lawyers did not abuse the judicial process when they dropped a federal lawsuit and refiled it in Arkansas state court with a proposed settlement.

Jul 27, 2017 7:00 AM CDT

Patent lawsuits drop 21 percent in the Eastern District of Texas as SCOTUS ruling brings new era

Patent lawsuits in the federal court for the Eastern District of Texas are on the decline as a result of a May ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Jul 19, 2017 7:45 AM CDT

Trump administration plans to ask Supreme Court to block latest travel ban ruling

Updated: One day after a Hawaii district court narrowed the reach of President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to block the latest travel ban ruling.

Jul 14, 2017 2:14 PM CDT

Harumph! 7th Circuit chief judge displays irritation with flawed jurisdictional statements

Chief Judge Diane Wood made her frustration clear in a pair of orders on Monday lamenting litigants’ failure to follow circuit rules that help the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals screen for jurisdictional problems.

Jul 12, 2017 8:00 AM CDT

Federal judge in Hawaii refuses to clarify which immigrants are temporarily exempt from travel ban

A federal judge on Thursday refused Hawaii’s request to decide whether immigrants with grandparents and grandchildren in the United States are temporarily exempt from President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban. U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson of Hawaii said that state should seek relief in the U.S. Supreme Court since it…

Jul 7, 2017 9:50 AM CDT

Lawyer says he missed deposition because email notice went to his junk folder

A Wisconsin lawyer has informed a federal court that he and his client missed a June 6 deposition because the email notice went to the lawyer’s junk email folder. Stan Davis of the Madison-based Davis Group argues that dismissal of his client’s suit against the University of Wisconsin is too…

Jul 5, 2017 9:42 AM CDT

5th Circuit tosses challenge to Mississippi’s controversial religious freedom law

A federal appeals court ruled on Thursday that LGBT activists and other plaintiffs don’t have standing to challenge a controversial Mississippi law that allows businesses to deny marriage-related services to same-sex couples. The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a federal judge who had blocked the law,…

Jun 23, 2017 10:58 AM CDT

Supreme Court limits jurisdictional reach of state courts in Plavix class action

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that California courts did not have specific jurisdiction to hear the claims of nonresidents in a Plavix class action when those plaintiffs didn’t buy or ingest the drug in the state.

Jun 19, 2017 12:19 PM CDT