Wal-Mart Stores Inc. lawyers have asked a federal judge to toss out the fourth version of the sex discrimination lawsuit by former female workers for
Month: January 2012
Appeals Court Limits Consumer Class Actions
Consumers in multiple states may have a much tougher time forging national class actions against companies they accuse of misrepresenting their products or lying to
Corporate Criminal Price-Fixing Trial Starts
One of the few companies to fight criminal charges of conspiracy fix prices is Taiwan’s AU Optronics Corp. in a trial that got under way
CA Voter Redistrict Challenge Aired
California’s Supreme Court grappled with how far into the political morass it should wade in a fight over state redistricting maps. No easy question. The
230 Credit Crisis Lawsuits So Far
In the five years since the first of the subprime credit crisis lawsuits began appearing there have been roughly 230 subprime and credit crisis lawsuits
Jurors Will See Incriminating Google Email
Google will have to explain to jurors in Oracle’s patent infringement trial why its own engineer sent an email saying Google needed a Java software