A Ninth Circuit appeals panel on Wednesday sent a lawsuit over an asylum officer’s alleged bribery and sexual misconduct back to trial court and ordered a California federal judge to reconsider her previous award of nearly $1 million in attorney fees in light of a 2017 U.S. Supreme Court ruling…
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A woman who says Alan Dershowitz sexually molested her when she was a child hit the prominent attorney and retired Harvard Law School professor with a defamation suit Tuesday in New York federal court, accusing Dershowitz of lying for years about the abuse…
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Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday that asylum-seekers in expedited immigration removal proceedings who pass “credible fear” interviews and are then given a full deportation hearing cannot be released on bond, overturning a long-standing decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals…
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Cisco Systems Inc. and Aptiv Services U.S. LLC urged a California federal court on Monday to reject a proposed settlement between direct purchasers of capacitors and Japanese manufacturers accused of price-fixing, calling the deal “unfair, unreasonable and inadequate.”
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Two California mothers launched a proposed class action in Utah federal court on Friday alleging Owlet Baby Care Inc. misleadingly marketed a “Smart Sock” baby monitor that didn’t accurately track infants’ heartbeats or oxygen levels and sometimes burned their feet…
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An Empire State federal judge has given initial approval to an $11 million deal between New York City and the union representing its administrative workers, which aims to resolve claims the city underpaid more than 1,500 nonwhite female employees by thousands of dollars a year…
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A Connecticut federal judge on Monday preliminarily signed off on a $10 million deal between manufacturer Terex Corp. and investors led by a sheet metal union pension fund in stock drop litigation over the company’s alleged failure to disclose declining demand for its services…
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