Counsel for the tobacco industry managed to kill an ordinance in Worcester, Mass., that prohibited all cigarette advertising that can be seen from public streets. But Worcester’s city solicitor says the judge who found the ordinance unconstitutional ignored the city’s core argument for keeping it alive.

The chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered a $44.6 million judgment on Wednesday against the Iranian government for its role in the 1983 terrorist bombings at the U.S

Rajat Gupta lost his bid Tuesday to exclude government wiretap evidence from his upcoming criminal trial. However, the former Goldman Sachs director’s lawyer persuaded federal district court Judge Jed Rakoff that prosecutors must review files from the SEC’s Gupta probe for potentially exculpatory Brady material.

Rajat Gupta lost his bid Tuesday to exclude government wiretap evidence from his upcoming criminal trial.

In an unusual move, Manhattan federal district court Judge Lewis Kaplan sent the New York Attorney General’s suit against Ernst & Young over its role as auditor for Lehman Brothers back to state court, even though the AG conceded that the federal court had jurisdiction.