WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The Antitrust Enforcement Venue Act of 2021 could create a path for aggressive state attorneys general to drive national policy, according to a conservative think tank policy director.
Disgraced plaintiff’s attorney Steven Donziger who sued a multinational oil and gas company was sentenced to six months in prison for contempt of court
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Multiple news sources are reporting that the Biden administration is resurrecting a corporate shakedown scheme established during the Obama years that funneled millions to left wing, community activist groups.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - After the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to opine on whether it was fair that no money from an $8.5 million class action settlement actually went to class members, a critic of such agreements noted that lawyers will continue to succumb to the "perverse incentive" to line their own pockets this way.
A Florida Democrat running for attorney general recently expressed an eye-opening take on what it means to be a state attorney general, showing his desire to file lawsuits with impunity.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The National
Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently asked the U.S. Supreme Court to determine
if arbitration agreements that prohibit employees from pursuing class or
collective actions are unlawful under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)
and unenforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – U.S. Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA), who is sponsoring the ACCESS (ADA Compliance for Customer Entry to Stores and Services) Act, is
testifying before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Constitution and
Civil Justice today on behalf of the bill he says will help stop plaintiffs’ lawyers
from “trying to enrich themselves on the backs of the disabled.”
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) -- The head of a New York-based legal policy center argues that passing a patent reform bill will pave the way for other upcoming, critical legislative battles.
Olens ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - A week after Mississippi added some transparency to contingency fee agreements between its attorney general and private lawyers, Georgia has done the same.
McGraw CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - Attorneys previously given state contracts by West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw have so far contributed $36,000 to his re-election campaign.
PLEASANTON, Calif. (Legal Newsline) -- A nurse has filed federal unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board against the California Nurses Association, alleging the union violated her rights as a worker by not refunding to her the appropriate amount of compulsory union dues.
Franks WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Whether state attorneys general should be allowed to hire private attorneys on a contingency fee to enforce federal law was debated last week before a House subcommittee.
Joyce WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Philadelphia's civil courts system has been named the nation's worst by the American Tort Reform Foundation for a second consecutive year.
Shein WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Independent scientific research institutes whose work influences the policies of the U.S. government as well as governments abroad, also impacts litigation in the states, an economics professor says.
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - The relationship between plaintiffs attorneys and the man President Barack Obama wants to head a key consumer protection agency is targeted in a new report by the Manhattan Institute.
Chief Justice John Roberts WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in a case that could determine the future of class action lawsuits.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - An online publication from the Manhattan Institute says for environmental disasters like the Gulf oil spill, litigation can be a crude tool for compensating those genuinely injured.
