Updated: Proskauer Rose has sued its most recent chief operating officer for allegedly downloading and printing “valuable confidential information” that would be “highly useful” to competitors.
Judge Abby Abinanti was the first tribal woman to be admitted to the State Bar of California. For almost two decades, she served as a judicial officer for the San Francisco Superior Court, and Abinanti has been a Yurok tribal court judge since 1997.
The Massachusetts Declaration of Rights does not provide a due process or equal protection right to physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled Monday.
President Joe Biden didn’t have authority under the Procurement Act of 1949 to require federal contractors to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for their employees, a federal appeals court has ruled.
A municipal judge in Philadelphia is accused of trying to cover for her upcoming absence by ruling on traffic citations before the scheduled hearing date, marking some ticketed people as “guilty in absentia.”
Updated: Three lawyers and a law professor figure prominently in criminal referrals of former President Donald Trump issued Monday by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack.
The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that a state cap on noneconomic damages is unconstitutional as applied to a woman who sued her childhood friend’s father for sexually abusing her during sleepovers when she was 11 and 12 years old.
Standing issues and a lack of notice have doomed a challenge to a transgender-inclusive sports policy. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at New York ruled Friday against four cisgender athletes in Connecticut who alleged that the policy deprived them of a fair shot at statewide track titles in high school.
Seven of 20 execution attempts in 2022 were “visibly problematic” in 2022, according to a year-end report by the Death Penalty Information Center.
The Hofstra University Maurice A. Deane School of Law is noncompliant with an accreditation standard that requires law schools to demonstrate “concrete action” by showing a commitment to having a diverse and inclusive faculty and staff, according to an ABA notice posted Wednesday.
Dr. Roger Kligler sits during a hearing in March 2017 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled Dec. 19 that allowing doctors to prescribe a lethal dose of medication to mentally competent patients with terminal illnesses is not protected by the state constitution. Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via the Associated Press.
An image with information about the criminal referral of former President Donald Trump to the U.S. Department of Justice is displayed as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol has its final meeting Dec. 19. Photo by Al Drago/Bloomberg pool via the Associated Press.
Alanna Smith (from left), Selina Soule and Chelsea Mitchell prepare to speak at a news conference in February 2020 outside the Connecticut State Capitol. They are three of four cisgender athletes who alleged that a transgender-inclusive sports policy deprived them of a fair shot at statewide track titles in high school. Photo by Pat Eaton-Robb/The Associated Press.
