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.
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A jury trial on Pacific Gas and Electric’s liability for the 2017 Tubbs Fire will start Jan. 7 in San Francisco, a California judge ruled Monday, after rejecting PG&E’s requests to move the case to Santa Rosa and limit the number of plaintiffs.
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A Texas judge Monday denied a motion by fired cop Amber Guyger to move her murder trial out of Dallas, rejecting her claims that the media’s “hysteria and false narratives” prejudiced potential jurors in her trial for the shooting death of an unarmed black man in his own apartment.
Read moreLawyers for actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard squared off in a Virginia courtroom Friday, as Heard sought to have a state judge dismiss her ex-husband’s $50 million defamation case.
Read moreAttorneys for the carpet industry argued before the Alabama Supreme Court Tuesday that two lawsuits alleging Georgia carpet manufacturers allowed contaminants to enter the drinking supply of Alabama cities should not be heard in that state’s courts.
Read moreIn a win for Monsanto following more than $2 billion in cancer-trial losses in California against the company’s popular weed killer Roundup, the federal judge overseeing nationwide litigation over the product said Wednesday Monsanto can choose where upcoming cases will be tried.
Read moreA Cook County judge declined Friday to transfer to another Illinois county a petition seeking a special prosecutor to investigate a state attorney’s handling of “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett’s hate-crime case, inching the decision forward after several setbacks.
Read moreTwitter has asked a Virginia judge to throw out a $250 million defamation lawsuit brought by Republican Congressman Devin Nunes of California against the social media giant and several users, arguing the lawmaker filed his complaint in the wrong state.
Read moreUnable to mediate a dispute over television fees with their cross-town rivals, the Washington Nationals asked a judge Monday to stop the Baltimore Orioles from forum shopping.
Read moreAn attorney representing a Christian athletic association in Southeast Tennessee made moves this week attempting to transfer a lawsuit over a $6 million camp out of a general sessions court.
Read moreAfter Kanye West likened his contract with music publisher EMI to slavery, EMI struck back with a federal complaint Thursday, accusing the rapper of forum shopping to get out of the deal.
Read moreDemanding a new venue for his second conspiracy trial, convicted lobbyist Paul Manafort argued Wednesday that the decks are stacked against him in the nation’s capital.
Read moreA federal judge in Manhattan pressed a prosecutor Tuesday to explain why a New York pizza deliveryman from Ecuador married to a U.S. citizen is being detained and facing deportation.
Read morePresident Trump’s embattled ex-campaign manager Paul Manafort is seeking a new venue for his upcoming trial in Alexandria, Virginia.
Read moreResponding to the deportation challenge by an Ecuadoran man whom immigration authorities snared while he brought pizza to an Army base in Brooklyn, the government says the deliveryman chose the wrong venue for his court battle.
Read moreSaying that the drug lord’s Brooklyn trial three months from now will unnecessarily feed a public spectacle, attorneys for Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman fought Tuesday to have the case moved.
Read moreGranting a Broadway production company’s request to move a lawsuit over its stage adaption of “To Kill a Mockingbird” from Alabama to New York, a federal judge said Monday that a live courtroom performance could be needed to decide the case.
Read moreThe family real estate company once run by presidential adviser Jared Kushner is shifting a federal court case to a new venue so it won’t have to reveal the identities of foreign partners behind some of its real estate projects.
Read moreA Georgia student claims in a federal lawsuit that the Ohio State University violated his free-speech rights by refusing to rent an available public room for a talk by controversial white nationalist leader Richard Spencer.
Read morePatent-law experts warned Congress on Tuesday that recent Supreme Court intervention is not enough to stop the trend of forum shopping by frequent litigants.
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