1+ week, 6+ day ago  (858+ words) The Supreme Court struggled with appeals by a death-row inmate fighting his capital conviction because of a pattern by a local prosecutor of striking Black people from his trial's jury pool. Hearing arguments Tuesday, the justices heavily scrutinized the actions…...

2+ week, 18+ hour ago  (889+ words) Joseph Perkovich first got involved in representing a prisoner on death row as a pro bono assignment while working at a corporate law firm. "The more I saw," he said, "the more upsetting and baffling it became in terms of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (112+ words) JPMorgan Chase & Co. lost its bid to knock out Wells Fargo & Co.'s breach-of-contract case over a defaulted $481 million commercial real estate loan. Wells Fargo's allegations that the largest US bank allowed the loan to move forward despite knowing financial…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago  (135+ words) Northwestern University was ordered to defend a proposed class action saying its health plan wrongly offers a high-cost benefit tier that provides no extra benefits. Daniel's order, issued in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, allows…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (135+ words) A company that spent $250, 000 on a nonfungible token project promoted by Earvin "Magic" Johnson opted to walk away from its suit against the basketball legend and the project's creator. Done Right & Co. , Johnson, and Carrie Lyn Henman'who offered the Magicverse…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago  (110+ words) Bloomberg Law News As more distressed borrowers enter bankruptcy with arbitration clauses in their financial agreements, judges are weighing whether such disputes can proceed before arbitrators or remain under the court's control. Arbitration and bankruptcy rules, the products of federal…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (478+ words) Meta Platforms Inc. isn't immune from claims it designed Instagram to addict youth, Massachusetts high court said Friday, rejecting the Facebook parent's invocation of a federal legal shield to block the lawsuit. The Supreme Judicial Court said Friday in a…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (146+ words) The specter of a dead Ohio utilities regulator loomed large during opening statements Tuesday in a trial for two former First Energy Corp. executives accused of state charges stemming from what prosecutors said was a $4. 3 million bribe. The actions of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (599+ words) Nearly six years after the FBI broke open a massive corruption probe in Ohio'one involving top state officials, the head of a Fortune 500 company, and tens of millions in alleged bribes'the public is no closer to definitively knowing the extent…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (103+ words) The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation faces a lawsuit from an anti-affirmative action group that claims its scholarship program tailored for Black students is racially biased. The foundation's Spouses Education Scholarship violates Section 1981 because it discriminates by race in favor of…...