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Randy Mastro's townhome on the Upper East Side of Manhattan was vandalized on Tuesday night with spray paint epithets.

A 'cursory' ruling from the bench won't cut it in a challenging patent eligibility case, the appellate court rules in sending the case back for a second try.

Trying economic circumstances offer a chance to force change upon hidebound institutions. But the pain imposed by the coronavirus crisis will likely be short lived.

California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye announced plans for the group at her annual State of the Judiciary speech in March but its actual formation was delayed by the pandemic, she said.

The evaluation, which considered Barrett's "competence and merit" based on her work on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and recent testimony to lawmakers, comes just days before the U.S. Senate is expected to confirm her Monday to the Supreme Court on a party-line vote.

Herbert Smith Freehills, which represented the defendant, expects more class actions to go to trial.

The justices held that President Donald Trump's reelection campaign, which was acting as an intervenor in the matter, was pushing for ways to reject ballots that did not appear in the statute.

The panel questioned Monsanto's federal preemption argument but, in regard to the plaintiffs' expert evidence allowed at trial, raised concerns the appellate court had "departed from some of the other circuits in how it applies Daubert."

Rochlin had the distinction of having worked with each of the firm's name partners and could still remember with "uncanny detail" his interactions with all of them.

Fresh off a $650 million privacy settlement with Facebook, Chicago plaintiffs lawyer Jay Edelson says his firm is coping with pandemic malaise by "jumping into huge issues that really matter to people."

In Kent County, only one courtroom has been identified as large enough to hold a jury trial while allowing for social distancing measures to be taken.

Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said in a statement that the U.S. had uncovered "overwhelming evidence" that the insurance company's financial products unit had used the complex transactions to generate bogus credits on foreign taxes that it did not actually pay.

Karen Hewitt used to be a U.S. Attorney in California. Now the tables have turned and she's suing the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of Walmart Inc.

The lateral market saw some rare real estate movement this week, while firms continued to add government, IP and cybersecurity lawyers.

The scenario, triggered by Audrey Strauss' appointment as acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney in June, would kick in Jan. 16, at the end of her 210-day temporary term under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act.

Wilmer attorneys argued the documents on Trump's order excluding undocumented immigrations from the population count used to allocate congressional seats have to be released quickly, or risk becoming irrelevant.

The potential for medical cannabis to boost foreign earnings, contribute to export growth and promote foreign investment in the health sector is driving increased legalization across the continent.

With Amy Coney Barrett nearly confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, there's plenty of talk on how Democrats could respond.

The lawsuit was filed after an email allegedly revealed a Winston partner's undisclosed ties to a neutral in an arbitration.

"We have lived this case for so long and it feels liberating to have some of the veil lifted off of these materials," said Sigrid McCawley of Boies Schiller Flexner.