Arizona is preparing to ask an appeals court to lift a judge’s ruling that put most of the state’s immigration law on hold in a key first-round victory for the federal government in a fight that may go to the U.S.

Non-clients have no standing to disqualify attorneys from jointly representing others, a California appeals court ruled Tuesday, despite a federal trial court ruling that seemed to suggest otherwise. The ruling reverses a trial court’s disqualification of Calabasas, Calif., attorney Bruce Graham and his firm, Graham & Associates, from representing clients with some allegedly opposing interests in a libel and breach of contract suit.

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips on Wednesday lost its bid to have the California Supreme Court review a malicious prosecution lawsuit filed against the firm over Franklin Mint’s line of Princess Diana collectibles. In May, an appeals court reinstated the suit, finding that Manatt had no probable cause to bring trademark dilution or false advertising claims against Franklin on behalf of the firm’s clients, the late princess’s estate and The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund.

The New Jersey Supreme Court will decide whether drunken drivers injured in accidents they cause can sue the liquor establishments that served them. State insurance law bars them from bringing personal injury claims against other drivers, but the court has never ruled on whether that statute takes precedence over the dram shop act, which makes liquor establishments liable for serving visibly intoxicated patrons

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has reversed a federal district court’s grant of a habeas petition to a Guantanamo detainee in a ruling that relaxed the evidence standards for the government to hold men at the U.S