Plaintiffs challenging Proposition 8 may have found treasure in Monday’s Supreme Court ruling on a San Francisco law school’s discrimination policy. Lawyers for same-sex marriage proponents told the judge in the Prop 8 trial Tuesday that the majority in the high court ruling acknowledged that gays are a protected class.

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A nearly two-year-old patent malpractice lawsuit filed against Kirkland & Ellis by former client Magnetek Inc. moved from state court to federal court last week. The move was prompted by a November 2009 appellate court ruling that Illinois’ courts lack jurisdiction over malpractice suits tied to patent law issues

A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., will have the chance to examine the latest version of the District of Columbia’s gun restrictions, in a possible test of how to apply the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in D.C

The New Jersey Supreme Court is deciding if a title insurer can be held liable for a lawyer’s theft of a home buyer’s funds if it fails to tell the buyer directly it is not responsible for the lawyer’s misdeeds. The case, Lawyers Funds for Client Protection v