The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has revived a legal malpractice suit after finding that the lower court improperly dismissed it for lack of expert witness support despite the plaintiff’s insistence that her claim could be proved without any experts.

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A federal appeals court has thrown out a class action settlement between freelance writers and online publishers and databases that archived the writers’ work without pay, saying that the pact approved by the lower court did not represent the interests of all class members.

Goodwin Liu’s bid for a federal judgeship may be headed for a crucial Senate vote this week, in what would be the biggest fight yet over any of President Barack Obama’s nominees for the lower federal courts.

The Federal Circuit has dealt Rambus a major setback, ruling in two cases that the technology licensing company improperly destroyed millions of pages of documents in advance of litigation, and sending the cases back to the lower courts.