Jason Grant

Reversing the lower court, the Connecticut Appellate Court ruled that continued at-will employment can be sufficient consideration for a restrictive covenant in a nondisclosure agreement.

The inmate has stated a plausible claim for relief by arguing that his use of the anticonvulsant drug gabapentin for back pain would make his brain less responsive, or possibly unresponsive, to a drug used by Georgia for lethal injections, wrote a three-judge circuit court panel.

A discriminatory policy is no less discriminatory, because it has a ‘leveling’ effect. In fact, the ‘leveling’ effect may be precisely what is discriminatory, wrote Sixth Circuit Judge Joan Larsen.

Named the Federal Court Learning Center, the new facility is aimed toward help[ing] to build trust and confidence within the community we serve,” said Chief Judge Tanya Walton Pratt of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, which is housed in same Indianapolis federal building and courthouse where the learning center opened.

The bar association task force’s proposed changes are designed to modernize, rationalize and clarify New York’s UCC, while preserving and, hopefully, expanding New York’s status as a commercial, financial and legal capital, according to a newly released 21-page report about the amendments.

A Manhattan lawyer was immediately suspended from practicing law after allegedly taking at least $78,000 from an escrow account that kept buyer deposits in advance of his client’s apartment sale and after admitting he’d personally used his client’s funds during his addiction, according to a state appeals court opinion.

Kasserman, who was installed at the Illinois Supreme Court building in Chicago, became the 147th president of the state bar association.

When Plaintiff watched videos on the Website, Defendants disclosed information that allowed Google (and any ordinary person) to readily identify Plaintiff’s video-watching behavior, the complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles alleges.

The lower court wrongly inserted an unwritten category of cases, namely proceedings that may include arguments implicating documents filed under seal, into New York’s statutory exception to the rule that court proceedings should be open to the public, an appeals panel said.

National truck rental company Penske will pay at least $3 million for not fully and lawfully conducting 189 safety and emissions inspections on trucks, under a lawsuit settlement announced by Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell.