Train Disaster Case Appears to Run Aground in 1st Circuit
Victims of a crash that virtually incinerated an entire Canadian town argued that the railroad is playing games with the courts, but the judges seemed unsure.
Read moreVictims of a crash that virtually incinerated an entire Canadian town argued that the railroad is playing games with the courts, but the judges seemed unsure.
Read moreA state judge will continue presiding over the Flint water contamination case against former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder after pausing proceedings last week to sort out jurisdiction issues.
Read moreAttorneys for author Truman Capote’s trust want a state court to resolve what they frame as a contract dispute — but they’ve already claimed copyright infringement in federal court.
Read moreThe terrorism trial of the man who inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda” can be held in Rwanda, a judge there ruled Friday, rejecting Paul Rusesabagina’s argument that a court there cannot try him because he is no longer a citizen.
Read moreAfter finding Tennessee’s new anti-SLAPP law constitutional, a judge hearing a $250 million defamation case against two TV stations said he did not have jurisdiction over the California station that reported on a Tennessee-based tiny home.
Read moreKentucky’s long-arm statute does not allow students to bring harassment claims against comedian Kathy Griffin and a New York doctor for tweets sent in the aftermath of a viral Washington Monument standoff.
Read moreFormer Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has been charged in the Flint water crisis, but his attorneys argued in a motion to dismiss the misdemeanor counts against him that “neglecting a city is not a crime.”
Read moreFiled less than six weeks before Brexit, the case may be one of the last involving the United Kingdom that the EU court considers.
Read moreThe United Nations’ top court found on Thursday that it lacks jurisdiction to hear a dispute between Qatar and the United Arab Emirates over a land, air and sea blockade.
Read moreThe refusal to reopen a benefits determination by a board that oversees decisions on railroad workers’ pensions can be challenged in federal court, a divided Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
Read moreThe United Nations’ high court ruled Wednesday that it has jurisdiction to hear a dispute brought by Iran against the United States over the reinstatement of sanctions in 2018.
Read moreA federal court in Texas ruled Samsung Electronics cannot take any action in its civil case against Ericsson in China that would interfere with the U.S. court’s jurisdiction to determine whether either company “met or breached” fraud obligations relating to 4G and 5G patents.
Read moreAn appeals court in Texas dismissed the state’s claims against Volkwagen Germany and Audi Germany over the car manufacturer’s installation of software in diesel cars that evaded compliance with federally mandated emissions standards. The companies’ activities were not “purposefully directed at Texas,” so its contacts with the state are “insufficient to confer specific jurisdiction.”
Read moreThe United Nations’ high court held Friday it has jurisdiction to hear a South American border dispute dating back to the 1800s.
Read moreA yearslong battle over a medieval collection sold to the Nazis in 1935, now estimated to be worth a quarter of a billion dollars, brought the heirs of Jewish art dealers to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday.
Read moreThe travel company Booking.com is based in Amsterdam, but it will have to go across the border to fend off a German hotel’s lawsuit, the EU’s high court held on Tuesday.
Read moreA federal court in Washington, D.C., ruled that it has jurisdiction over the Pan American Health Organization as to some of the claims brought against it by four Cuban physicians now living in the U.S. who claim it provided or benefited from their forced labor in Brazil.
Read moreA federal court in California, writing that it “takes no pleasure in this holding,” ruled it lacks jurisdiction to review the claims of 128 asylum seekers who were denied the right to apply for asylum under a Trump administration’s policy of denying asylum to anyone who did not first seek it in Mexico or another country through which they traveled.
Read moreUniversity of California officials cannot be sued on claims of cheating students out of hundreds of millions of dollars in fees for on-campus services not provided due to the Covid-19 pandemic because they are immune from federal lawsuits, a judge said in court Monday.
Read moreThe Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled Monday that state courts do not have jurisdiction over a California doctor accused by Prince’s family of failing to provide proper medical care by not recommending addiction treatment for the late pop star.
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