Prominent trial lawyer Robert Bennett, who said last week that he would defend the operators of file-sharing website Megaupload against charges that they had violated federal copyright and online piracy laws, has reportedly dropped the case due to a client conflict involving his firm.

Some harsh words shared between opposing attorneys at a meeting to discuss a case did not rise to defamation, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled, because the meeting was a privileged part of the judicial record in the case.

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The EPA faced a generally hostile Supreme Court this week in a case involving a landowner’s fight to build a home on an alleged wetland. “If you related the facts of this case to the ordinary homeowner,” that homeowner would say, “‘This doesn’t happen in the United States,’” said Justice Samuel Alito Jr.

The EPA faced a generally hostile Supreme Court this week in a case involving a landowner’s fight to build a home on an alleged wetland.