A mother facing deportation who feared she would be beaten or killed for trying to protect her grade school-age daughter from genital mutilation in Senegal has won a reprieve from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has decided a plaintiff’s federal claims are not precluded when the plaintiff puts the defendants in a state action on notice that the federal claims are being split off and the defense never objects.

A judge’s campaign contribution flap in the Madison County, Ill., circuit court has led the U.S.

For a second time, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that out-of-state Oracle workers can move forward with a proposed class action seeking overtime pay. The three-judge panel reversed the district court, which had granted summary judgment in favor of Oracle.

A unanimous panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that subrogation claims in cases under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 can be limited at courts’ discretion by equitable defenses and principles such as unjust enrichment.