An entire email chain cannot be withheld during e-discovery on the grounds that it contains a single email with privileged information, a federal magistrate judge has ruled in an $800,000 contract dispute between a benefits consultant and a client.

In a significant win for big pharmaceutical firms, a federal judge has refused to certify a consumer and indirect purchaser antitrust class action against GlaxoSmithKline on the grounds that the plaintiffs cannot prove each class member was affected by the alleged scheme to maintain higher prices. The plaintiffs allege that GSK set out to delay the market date for a generic version of Wellbutrin SR by using “sham” patent litigation to tie up generic manufacturers in court and patent board proceedings.

A New York federal judge has held that a baggage screener at John F. Kennedy International Airport who tested positive for marijuana cannot avoid being fired on the grounds that his test results were allegedly the product of secondhand smoke.

Houston lawyer Harry C. Arthur’s courthouse battle with Christ Church Cathedral and The Beacon, a homeless center in downtown Houston, is over

Houston lawyer Harry C. Arthur touched a nerve in one homeless man when Arthur filed a suit seeking to shut down a church-sponsored operation that provides meals and services for homeless people, on the grounds that the center is a “private nuisance.” Louis Charles Hamilton II filed a pro se suit seeking a minimum of $2.4 million in damages, alleging that Arthur “unflinchingly, courageously” and with an “audaciously bold potty mouth” accused people who are fed at the center of being “derelicts,” among other things.