A New York appellate court has overturned a decision that ordered a Manhattan law firm to pay more than $500,000 to a former contract partner who blamed his bipolar condition for his misuse of a company credit card and attempt to pass expenses on to the firm’s clients.

A New Jersey appellate court has ruled that a woman was justly convicted, without use of Alcotest results, based on unstable driving and deficient motor skills at a traffic stop, which she blamed on a health disorder and on wearing high-heel shoes.

Does this week’s highly anticipated ruling by an Ecuadorean appellate court upholding a lower court’s $18 billion judgment against Chevron mean that Chevron and Ecuadorean plaintiffs will finally opt to settle the knock-down, drag-out Lago Agrio litigation?

On Thursday a New Jersey appellate court upheld a jury verdict that Citigroup won three years ago on Citi’s counterclaims that Parmalat defrauded the bank. The decision is a big blow for Quinn Emanuel in its ongoing pursuit of damages against Parmalat’s former bankers and advisors.

A Tennessee appellate court has vacated the 1985 felony murder conviction of a former death row inmate and remanded his case for a new trial, due in large part to new evidence turned up by a pro bono Cleary Gottlieb team that over the past 15 years has spent at least 15,000 hours on the case.