A California judge took after Google’s lawyers Tuesday for breaking rules aimed at streamlining patent-marking issues at trial. The judge even threatened to take away a key Google defense: the argument that Oracle didn’t mark, or provide notification of, some patents in the suit, a position aimed at limiting exposure for past damages.

James Bopp Jr., the lawyer who brought Citizens United v. FEC to the U.S.

Lawyers who helped defend a corporation from asbestos litigation are now defending themselves in a putative class action suit alleging they conspired to conceal evidence. The defendants argue that the suit is an improper attempt to reopen and relitigate thousands of closed asbestos cases.

Lawyers who helped defend a corporation from asbestos litigation are now defending themselves in a putative class action suit alleging they conspired to conceal evidence. The defendants argue that the suit is an improper attempt to reopen and relitigate thousands of closed asbestos cases.

A 2nd Circuit panel has reinstated a lawsuit accusing a former assistant district attorney of misconduct in the prosecution of a domestic violence case, reversing a lower court’s ruling that he was absolutely immune from the suit.