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The Alabama Supreme Court threw out a $3.5 billion punitive damages verdict against Exxon Mobil Corp. over the objections of the chief justice, who said the ruling encourages fraud. In an 8-1 decision last week, a majority of the court ...

Legal TV, the U.K. television channel devoted to lawyers, canceled a reality show where solicitors were asked to save the world from fictional disasters because it was “like watching paint dry.” The 10 U.K. lawyers selected from 200 candidates were ...

Martha Stewart settles dispute over ‘Katonah’ trademark Martha Stewart, the founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., settled claims by a coalition of residents and business owners in Katonah, N.Y., who challenged her trademark application for the hamlet’s name. The ...

Timm W. Schowalter, an attorney with Lashley & Baer, has been elected chairman of the employment and labor practice group with USLAW Network Inc., a group of 4,000 lawyers with 61 U.S. law firms in 45 states and 23 European ...

Private attorneys could be asked to lighten the load

Feds named local man a suspect in September, after seizing $295,000

Civil rights activist Percy Green II has lost another round in his employment suit against the city of St. Louis. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a jury’s decision last year that Green was not a ...

The federal government sued a Warren County landfill last week, seeking to recoup $619,000 in cleanup costs. The landfill, located about three miles southwest of Wright City, is on 120 acres of land owned by LaVerne A. Zykan. A 1996 ...

Lawrence B. Solum is the John E. Cribbet Professor of Law at the University of Illinois, where he teaches philosophy of law, civil procedure, and constitutional law. A graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, he has written extensively on ...

MILWAUKEE — Two 7th Circuit opinions issued Oct. 19 discuss the distinction between waiving and forfeiting objections. However, the court’s methodology leaves much to be desired. In the first case, Damien Brodie was convicted after trial of possession of cocaine ...

Actress Elizabeth Taylor can keep a Vincent van Gogh painting after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by three people who said their great-grandmother was forced to sell the work before fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939. The justices, without ...