An attorney for seven Cambodian villagers forced to work in the Thai seafood industry told a Ninth Circuit panel Friday that all partners in the venture knew or should have known about the practice and therefore violated federal laws against human trafficking.
Read moreDistributors and financiers of the film “London Fields” must amend their suit against director Matthew Cullen, a federal judge ruled, dismissing the fight over the project’s delays and budget overruns for want of jurisdiction.
Read moreIndia and Italy wrapped up hearings Saturday over jurisdiction in the 2012 killing of two Indian fishermen by Italian sailors in international waters.
Read moreNative American advocates told lawmakers on a Senate panel Wednesday that tribal police should have jurisdiction over violent cases committed by non-Natives on tribal land and the federal government should improve databases tracking such crimes.
Read moreThe Second Circuit declined to recall its mandate that federal courts lack jurisdiction over the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, despite claims that Americans were killed in terror attacks in Israel.
Read moreThe Supreme Court held unanimously Monday that federal courts can exercise jurisdiction over discrimination claims that were never brought before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Read moreA federal judge refused Thursday to dismiss a class action from noncitizen soldiers who claim the Army summarily discharged them without either explanation or due process.
Read morePennsylvania state Senator Joe Scarnati need not bear the $30,000 cost of detouring a gerrymandering suit to federal court, the Third Circuit ruled Wednesday.
Read moreA federal judge dismissed without prejudice, for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, a lawsuit over the refusal by the Florida Federal Judicial Nominating Commission to release records on one nominee.
Read moreE&B Natural Resources Management must amend its claims over an oilfield permit denied by Alameda County, a federal judge ruled Friday, finding the case belongs in state court
Read moreHow — and where — should victims collect reparations for a genocide? In New York, an effort to hold present-day Germany responsible for what is grimly called the first genocide of the 20th century hit a setback.
Read moreLawyers for a pair of accused drug dealers urged the New Jersey Supreme Court to bar their prosecution for a New Yorker’s overdose, saying state law does not cover conduct across the river.
Read moreAttorneys from both sides of the Kansas-Missouri border appeared before the Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday to determine which state has jurisdiction over a wrongful death lawsuit about a boy who was starved and tortured by his father and stepmother before his body was fed to pigs.
Read moreComplaining that more than 40 percent of a settlement fund remains untouched, a lawyer told the D.C. Circuit on Wednesday that the Hilton hotel group has kept thousands in the dark about retirement benefits.
Read moreAttorneys for a former business executive sentenced to two decades in prison for tax and wire fraud asked an 11th Circuit panel Tuesday to reverse a ruling dismissing his challenges to the modification of a forfeiture order.
Read moreAn attorney for California’s tax agency on Wednesday told the Supreme Court justices a 1979 decision that allows a state to be sued in another state’s court without its consent has upended the relationship between the states that is central to the “genius” of the Constitution.
Read moreThe Trump administration prevailed this year in only one of the many lawsuits it faced for trying to end a deportation-deferral program for qualifying young immigrants. Fighting to keep that win, attorneys for the government argued Tuesday at the Fourth Circuit that the decision to end DACA is not judicially reviewable.
Read moreUpholding submissions Tuesday related to the conservation of Antarctic resources, the European Court of Justice resolved a power struggle between two of the EU’s decision-making bodies.
Read moreBecause Greece was wielding its public authority when it devalued bonds during its financial crisis, the European Court of Justice ruled Thursday that a foreign bond holder cannot rely on the EU’s commercial or civil rules to bring a suit in Austria.
Read more