Legal News

NRA wins Philly challenge
They got a permanent injunction on two statutes. On others, the court held plaintiffs had no standing to sue (thus neither upholding or striking down the rules). The mayor's spokesman says the latter shows they were "legal and not actions of a renegade government...

Labor Law Class Action Filings Drop But Maintain Grip On Top Spot Of Weekly Class Action Filings In California State And Federal Courts
To assist class action defense attorneys anticipate the types of cases against which they will have to defend in California, we provide weekly, unofficial summaries of the legal categories for new class action lawsuits filed in California state and federal courts in the Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, San Diego, San Mateo, Oakland/Alameda and Orange County areas...

"Pa. high court orders removal of Philly judge"
"Pa. high court orders removal of Philly judge": The Associated Press provides a report that begins, "Pennsylvania's high court has removed a Philadelphia judge because she pleaded guilty to using a bogus Social Security number on credit-card applications 24 years ago...

Problems reported in PA primary
The Philadelphia Inquirer has a story, "Machine, registration problems in Pa. primary elections." According to this story, most of the reports of registration problems seem to stem from voters who changed their party registration, and who were not on the rolls...

Bikers and barristers | Philadelphia Inquirer | 08/31/2008
"Everyone on this show is ambitious and overworked. They're all trying to make the best of a legal system that is irretrievably broken, a bureaucracy that continually misses the forest for the thorny underbrush...

Class Actions, Post-CAFA
This month's Trial magazine has news from a March conference at the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law called "Justice and the Role of Class Actions." A quick summary-- Class actions are "evolving, not dying...

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

Paxil Lawsuit
Paxil Claims, Lawsuits, and Injuries

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (Supreme Court): Does Obama meet the constitutional requirements to be President

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

Katrina Victims See Justice, Ruling Paves the Way for Class Actions
Katrina Victims See Justice Ruling Paves the Way for Class Actions

Lipitor
Review of Studies Show No Significant Benefit in Women

Tarceva
Safety Data Show Association with Liver Failure and Death

Health Net
Settles Three Class Actions for $215 Million

Sonus, Vonage
Settle their Class Actions

Hurricane Insurer
Settles 2 Class Actions for $35 Million