Dirty Coal
Peabody Energy Corp. sued the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, claiming it is not subject to its jurisdiction in environmental complaints, in Kanawha County Court.
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House Fights to Revive Suit Over Border-Wall Funding
The D.C. Circuit gave the Trump administration a cool reception Tuesday as it attempts to quash a lawsuit by Congress in the funding fight over the president’s long-promised border wall.
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France Assailed at UN for Prosecuting Equatorial Guinean Leader
Arguing before the highest court of the United Nations, a representative for Equatorial Guinea challenged France’s prosecution of a vice president for the only Spanish-speaking country in Africa.
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Virginia Judge Calls for Discovery in Nunes Defamation Suit
A lawsuit California Congressman Devin Nunes filed in Virginia against California-based media giant McClatchy will live to see another day after a judge called Wednesday for more discovery on personal jurisdiction.
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Panel Hears Jurisdiction Squabble in Big Oil Climate Suits
The Ninth Circuit waded into a thorny jurisdictional dispute Wednesday over whether federal or state law governs a spate of city and county lawsuits against oil and gas giants like BP and Chevron.
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Suit on Slovenia-Croatia Border Sputters at Top EU Court
Finding that a decades-running dispute over Slovenia and Croatia’s borders falls under international rather than EU law, the bloc’s highest court announced Friday that it lacks jurisdiction to hear the case.
Read moreCredible Fear Interview
A federal court in Texas ruled that it lacks jurisdiction to hear an Angolan man’s challenges to his expedited order of removal. The asylum seeker, who was beaten by police and military in his home country because of his father’s political ties, did not understand the translator during his credible fear interview because she did not speak the dialect of Portuguese he does.
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High Court to Decide Where Auto Giant Can Be Sued
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether Ford must go into courts in Minnesota and Montana to defend itself from claims that it should be held liable for car crashes that left a woman dead and a man with a brain injury.
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Trump Fails to Kill Suit From Columnist Who Says He Raped Her
With a nod to the endless stream of tweets emanating from the White House, a New York judge refused Friday to nix a defamation lawsuit from an advice columnist who says President Donald Trump raped her.
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Judge Rejects DNA Testing 13 Years After Execution
The daughter of a man executed 13 years ago for murder does not have legal standing to seek DNA testing of evidence in the case, a Memphis judge ruled Monday, but the judge said the ruling was based on jurisdiction, not on the merits of the claims.
Read moreFeds Denounce Gamesmanship in Halkbank Sanctions Case
Call it Schrödinger’s prosecution. Attorneys for a bank charged with the biggest money-laundering scheme to Iran ever alleged in a U.S. court, asserted before a federal judge Tuesday that their Turkish state-run client would not recognize the proceedings.
Read moreTop NY Court Won’t Weigh in on Tribe Leadership Fight
New York’s highest court ruled Tuesday that it lacks jurisdiction to resolve the Cayuga Nation’s long-running internal tribal leadership dispute.
Read moreWatchdog Slams Order Allowing Nunes to Sue Twitter in Virginia
A government watchdog group blasted a ruling that will keep a defamation lawsuit filed by California Congressman Devin Nunes against Twitter and several users in Virginia state court, warning it could chill free speech.
Read moreMilitary Housing Financial Fraud Suit Advances, Moves to New York
Finding she lacks jurisdiction over financial firms and advisers accused of bilking military housing projects out of hundreds of millions of dollars, a federal judge decided Thursday to transfer the case to New York instead of dismissing it for lack of jurisdiction.
Read moreTrump Tax Probe Pits State Against US Prosecutors
In the annals of federal and state court prosecutors, turf battles have cropped up occasionally over criminal investigations. What has broken out in a fight over President Donald Trump’s tax returns threatens to be a turf war.
Read moreCambodian Seafood Workers Ask Ninth Circuit to Revive Trafficking Suit
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 moreLondon Fields
Distributors 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 Fight Over Jurisdiction in International-Waters Shooting
India and Italy wrapped up hearings Saturday over jurisdiction in the 2012 killing of two Indian fishermen by Italian sailors in international waters.
Read moreTribal Advocates Urge Passage of Anti-Violence Bills
Native 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.
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