A woman who brought pro se suits against Seyfarth Shaw and a former employer is facing criminal charges of impeding, intimidating and interfering with a federal official over a letter she allegedly sent a judge and statements on a YouTube video, in which she tells the judge she will “have to answer” for her ruling.

The FTC has announced that it has ordered ProMedica Health Systems to divest an Ohio hospital it acquired in 2010, ruling that the deal was anti-competitive. ProMedica counsel David Marx, a partner at McDermott, Will & Emery, said he anticipates the ruling will be appealed to the 6th Circuit.

Merck has failed in its initial attempt to block Kentucky’s attorney general from using private plaintiffs lawyers to press the state’s claims over Vioxx, but the ruling contains a few bright spots for the company and other critics of state AGs outsourcing litigation to contingency fee lawyers.

Yet another ruling by disgraced former federal Judge Jack T.

A federal judge has dismissed claims by Ilya Eric Kolchinsky that Moody’s defamed him in the press after he testified in an investigation into the rating agencies’ role in the financial crisis.