Roommates.com has scored a big victory with a 9th Circuit ruling that it can collect personal information from users and match potential roommates according to traits like gender and sexual preference. The panel held that roommate selection is covered by a constitutional right to association.

Sanctions against two attorneys who insist that former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld caused the Sept.

In a case that has returned twice in three years because of fresh case law from the U.S. Supreme Court, the 2nd Circuit keeps coming up with the same answer: A class action waiver provision in American Express contracts with merchants is unenforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act.

The White House and Georgia’s U.S. senators may agree that Atlanta lawyers Jill Pryor and Mark Cohen should be federal judges — but they apparently differ on which lawyer should fill an opening at the 11th Circuit and which should serve on Atlanta’s U.S. District Court.

In an obscure insurance fraud case that grew into a federal courthouse spectacle, the 9th Circuit has held that a party to a joint-defense agreement doesn’t unilaterally waive privilege for the other person by lodging an ineffective-assistance of counsel claim.