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State Farm clients file suits after settlement rejected State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. was sued by at least 11 more Mississippi policyholders after a judge last month rejected a proposed global settlement of claims against the insurer in that ...

Attorney Brad Seligman continues his fight against big companies, his latest victory over Wal-Mart in winning the company’s appeal of grouping of current and former workers’ suits. Photo by Noah Berger/Bloomberg News Brad Seligman, the California attorney who last week ...

The crime-fraud exception to the attorney-client privilege permits admission of evidence when the attorney is actually an FBI agent posing as an attorney who assists in the staging of automobile accidents, the 7th Circuit held last month. In conducting Operation ...

A four-volume set of first edition copies of Winnie-The-Pooh by A.A. Milne sit on display last year in the Bauman Rare Books booth at the 52nd Annual Winter Antiques Show in New York. Photo by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg News Walt Disney ...

Wal-Mart to pay $125,000 to resolve racial-harassment suit Wal-Mart Stores will pay $125,000 to an Idaho worker to resolve a government lawsuit claiming he endured racial slurs at work and was fired after he complained. Travis Woods, a night maintenance ...

Northland lawyer Steve Sanders spent his youth conquering video games such as Pac-Man and Donkey Kong. A documentary about Sanders and other video game warriors was recently made and released at the Sundance Festival. Photo by Matt Frye Present-day lawyer ...

Top state judges voted Wednesday to oppose a proposed American Bar Association report on judicial standards of conduct following a last-minute change that diluted the obligation of judges to avoid the “appearance of impropriety.” At their midyear meeting in New ...

The Senate Judiciary Committee, concerned about a recent spate of prosecutor firings, moved to strip the Justice Department of some of its power to appoint interim U.S. attorneys. By a 13-6 vote, the panel sent legislation to the full Senate ...

Diane Sullivan, an attorney representing Merck & Co., enters the Atlantic County Civil Courts building July 13. New Jersey Superior Court Judge Carol Higbee found Sullivan in contempt of court Wednesday and fined her $1,000. She reversed the fine Thursday. ...

Cigarette makers must fund cessation plan, court rules Philip Morris USA, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and other U.S. cigarette makers must fund quit-smoking programs in Louisiana, an appeals court ruled Wednesday. The state appeals court in New Orleans upheld part ...

A federal judge gave final approval Thursday morning for a $28,000 settlement to a Black Jack family who sued the city for denying an occupancy permit because the heads of household were unmarried. Half the amount will go to Spencer ...