lawsuit
-
California and several environmental groups sued Exxon Mobil on Monday, accusing the oil giant of running a decades-long campaign that fueled global plastic waste pollution. During Climate Week in New York City, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the lawsuit after completing a nearly two-year investigation, which he said revealed Exxon deliberately misled the public…
-
A Houston bankruptcy judge accused U.S. law firm Jackson Walker of breaching its ethical duties by failing to disclose earlier the relationship between David Jones, a former Houston bankruptcy judge, and one of its partners. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Marvin Isgur referred the entire Jackson Walker firm for disciplinary proceedings in a letter sent Friday to…
-
Authorities have arrested an Alaska man, Panos Anastasiou, 76, on charges that he threatened to assault, kidnap, and murder six U.S. Supreme Court justices and some of their family members. Prosecutors allege that Anastasiou sent over 465 threatening messages through the Supreme Court’s website, starting in March 2023, with the threats escalating in violence by…
-
The percentage of students of color in Harvard Law School’s new class dropped to 43% from 51% in 2023, according to data posted on the school’s website. This marks the first class admitted after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling that barred colleges and universities from considering race in admissions. The court’s decision came in…
-
The Supreme Court rejected the Green Party’s attempt to rejoin the Nevada ballot on Friday, strengthening the Democrats’ effort to keep the party and its presidential candidate, Jill Stein, from competing in this battleground state for the November 5 election. The justices upheld a Nevada Supreme Court ruling, which barred the Green Party after it…
-
A federal judge ruled on Thursday that George Mason University can continue its investigation into former law professor Joshua Wright, a former U.S. Federal Trade Commission member who resigned in 2023 following multiple accusations of sexual misconduct. U.S. District Court Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles, presiding in the Eastern District of Virginia, did not fully dismiss…
-
A Johnson & Johnson subsidiary filed for bankruptcy for the third time on Friday as the healthcare giant pushes forward with a proposed $10 billion settlement aimed at resolving tens of thousands of lawsuits accusing its baby powder and other talc products of causing cancer. More than 62,000 claimants have sued J&J, alleging that its…
-
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Friday that it plans to seek sanctions against Elon Musk after he failed to appear for court-ordered testimony in the agency’s investigation of his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter. In a filing in San Francisco federal court, the SEC stated it would request an order compelling…
-
King & Spalding has urged a U.S. judge to dismiss a “misguided” lawsuit filed by Sarah Spitalnick, a white, female lawyer, who accuses the firm of bias due to its diversity-focused job program for early-career attorneys. In a Thursday night filing in a Maryland federal court, the firm argued that the program is not discriminatory,…
-
Morgan & Morgan has reignited an internet advertising dispute with another Florida-based law firm, accusing it of violating an agreement to avoid misleading customers through Google search results. Billing itself as the largest U.S. injury law firm, Morgan & Morgan filed a lawsuit against the 30-lawyer Morgan Law Group (MLG) on Thursday in an Orlando…
Categories
About Us
Follow Us
Never miss a story
Get the latest news straight to your inbox.
Copyright 2024 American Law Reporter. All rights reserved.