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U.S. Justice Department lawyers argue that last month's ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit was "fundamentally misconceived" because it conflated his private account with his role as a public officeholder.

Judge Kenneth Powell filed an opinion earlier this week contending that defendant Ethicon's numerous issues on appeal are "meritless," and asking the appellate court to affirm the verdict in Emmet v. Ethicon.

That feature, called Audible Captions, is being challenged over copyright infringement by the publishers, who claim Audible is unlawfully reproducing the work of authors without permission.

Law professors, Big Law lawyers, plaintiffs-side trial lawyers and others weigh in on a proposal to cut "corporate" lawyers from Democratic presidential hopefuls' lists of potential nominees to the bench.

"We are satisfied that Qualcomm has shown, at minimum, the presence of serious questions on the merits of the district court's determination that Qualcomm has an antitrust duty to license its [standard essential patents] to rival chip suppliers," wrote the court.

Judge Jane Kelly said in her dissent: "Nothing stops a business owner from using today's decision to justify new forms of discrimination tomorrow."

'While foreign courts need not mirror the U.S. legal system in every respect, those core due process rights are a prerequisite before American courts can enforce a foreign judgment.'

Honorable mention goes to lawyers from Selendy & Gay; Pepper Hamilton; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Bracewell and Latham & Watkins.

The Burning Man festival bills itself as "an exercise in Radical Self-Reliance," but two deaf California men think the organizers' decision to drop interpretive services for the deaf is a bad sign.

Judge Kevin Newsom of the Eleventh Circuit highlighted the "schoolyard scrap" between sisters underlying a Fourth Amendment case.

The lawyer who has represented foes of President Donald Trump is facing a November 12 trial date on charges he tried to shake down the shoe company.

Second District Court of Appeal Justice Jeffrey Johnson denied sexual harassment allegations on Thursday, testifying: "I'm at risk of losing my job, because someone's saying I'm talking about the color and size of my penis. It's insulting."

The Rosen Law Firm in New York seeks to represent investors who claim they were damaged by Burford Capital's allegedly false and misleading statements that artificially inflated securities.

"It almost brought tears to my eyes that anybody, any elected official, much less a judicial officer, would behave in such a manner," said Waco solo practitioner Doug Froneberger, who filed a judicial complaint against Bell County Justice of the Peace Pct. 4, Place 1 Judge Daryl Peters.

The dispute stemmed from the separation and distribution agreement between DXC Technology and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company.

Gibson Dunn's Theodore Boutrous Jr. and Daniel Swanson reclaim their hero status--though a stroke of luck also had something to do with it.

“This is not right and it is a serious problem for me. All was clear between us," Craig, a former Skadden partner, said in one email exchange that prosecutors showed jurors Wednesday at trial in Washington.

“We are proud of the greater transparency. We want people generally to see what's going on in their courts. This just enhances that," said Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Nathan Hecht.

Co-leader of Ballard Spahr's consumer financial services group said his law firm has not seen any continued drop in the number of investigations under President Donald Trump's administration.

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan granted the Justice Department's request to stay the lawsuit and allow the circuit court to review his previous rulings that allowed the case to proceed.