Airgas Inc. can move forward with its breach of fiduciary duty claims against Cravath Swaine & Moore now that a federal judge in Philadelphia has said the company sufficiently pleaded its case to survive a defense motion for judgment on the pleadings. U.S.

A federal judge has dismissed all charges against adult film producer John Stagliano, granting a defense motion for judgment of acquittal in the closely watched First Amendment case. Stagliano and two of his companies were charged with producing two movies and a trailer that federal prosecutors said were criminally obscene. “It’s a great day for the First Amendment

A Philadelphia judge has ruled that the scientific methodologies used by key plaintiffs’ expert witnesses in the 1,500 cases pending in mass tort litigation over hormone replacement therapy are not novel and are admissible in court. Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Sandra Mazer Moss ruled from the bench Wednesday against a defense motion that challenged the differential diagnosis methodology used by plaintiffs’ expert witnesses to evaluate whether they think HRT was a substantial factor in causing a plaintiff’s cancer.