Law

  • A Massachusetts attorney will have his license temporarily yanked after a state appeals court on Monday agreed with previous findings that he hadn’t fulfilled his duties to clients, including one who got detained by immigration authorities after taking the lawyer’s advice… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • A Washington federal court did nothing wrong when it trimmed the attorney fees sought by a class of James Bond fans after they settled claims MGM and Fox had lied about the contents of a box set of the spy movies, the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday in a published opinion… Read this piece in its…

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  • U.S. Rep. Duncan D. Hunter plans to plead guilty in a corruption case accusing him of misusing more than a quarter-million dollars in campaign funds, one of his lawyers told Law360 on Monday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • A Seventh Circuit appeals panel on Wednesday pared back a $3 million punitive damages award won by a woman who claimed a mortgage servicer had mishandled her account, with the judges calling the award “excessive” but not letting the company off the hook completely… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • Massachusetts-based iRobot Corp., the maker of the Roomba line of robotic vacuum cleaners, has lost a bid to block its rival SharkNinja from selling a competing product while a patent infringement case plays out in Bay State federal court, SharkNinja said Tuesday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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