United States: Court Procedure

In Abraham Watkins Nichols Agosto Aziz & Stogner v. Festeryga, No. 23-20337, 2025 WL 2621301 (5th Cir. Sept. 11, 2025), the plaintiff law firm sued its former associate attorney in Texas...

On Monday, President Trump sued The New York Times, several authors and New York Times reporters, and Penguin Random House for defamation seeking $15 billion dollars in damages.

Learn the essential steps for completing service of process in legal proceedings.

MDL defendants should insist that Rule 16.1, properly understood and applied, requires plaintiffs' firms to make early disclosures of basic verifying information about each of their cases.

Three federal district courts held that the EO is likely unlawful and entered preliminary injunctions prohibiting executive officials from implementing the policy anywhere in the country.

In a notable shift toward final resolution, Ripple Labs and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have...

Some commentators are predicting that the declining foreclosure rates witnessed in 2024 could begin to trend upward this year.

In a recent decision from the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the district court denied Abbott Laboratories' motion for summary judgment in a patent infringement case...

On March 21, 2025, the Supreme Court continued its push back on an expansive reading of the federal criminal laws involving fraud and corruption by overturning the false statement conviction of Patrick Daley Thompson. In a unanimous ruling delivered by Chief Justice Roberts, the Court held that the federal statute of conviction, 18 U.S.C. § 1014, which makes it a crime to, inter alia, make a false statement to certain federal agencies does not criminalize misleading statements that are not false