Granting 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.
Read moreTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton got his wish Friday when the trial judge in his drawn-out criminal securities fraud case relinquished control to be replaced by another judge in Houston.
Read moreA state judge declined Wednesday to move the trial of a former Catholic priest charged with the 1960 murder of a South Texas beauty queen outside of the county where the crime occurred.
Read moreThe former Catholic priest charged with the 1960 murder of a South Texas beauty queen could find out this week if his trial will be moved out of the county where his attorneys claim an impartial jury is impossible to find.
Read moreA federal judge tossed two lawsuits this week against an Arizona flight school that trained the Germanwings pilot who deliberately flew a commercial jet into the French Alps, finding Germany is the better venue for the claims.
Read moreThough a judge refused Monday to change the venue of Bill Cosby’s upcoming trial, jury selection will occur outside Montgomery County, Pennsylvania – the site of the alleged sexual assault.
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