The Third Circuit on Wednesday affirmed a Pennsylvania federal judge's order sanctioning a senior Cooley LLP lawyer after he filed evidence in a patent dispute past the discovery deadline, noting that while the order was "rather harsh," the district judge had the discretion to impose the sanctions.
A woman who claims she was sexually harassed by a manager while working at Donald Trump's New Jersey golf club alleges she was fraudulently induced by an attorney who later worked for Trump into signing a nondisclosure agreement, though her lawsuit lodged Wednesday in a Garden State court doesn't name the attorney as a defendant.
One day after Binance founder Changpeng Zhao pled guilty to failing to maintain an effective anti-money laundering program at the cryptocurrency exchange, prosecutors told a Seattle federal judge Wednesday that Zhao "poses a serious risk of flight" and should remain in the country ahead of his February sentencing.
A split Fifth Circuit on Wednesday vacated and remanded six refineries' challenges to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency decision denying them a hardship exemption from a renewable fuel program, saying the denial was "impermissibly retroactive" and contrary to law, running afoul of the Administrative Procedure Act.
X Corp., formerly known as Twitter, sued a progressive media watchdog in Texas federal court on Monday, claiming it has driven advertisers from X by manipulating algorithms to make it appear the social media platform places ads for Apple, Xfinity and other major brands alongside neo-Nazi and white nationalist content.