Supreme Court ‘Buckets of Money’ Case Targets Power of SEC’s Administrative Judges April 24, 2018 By Greg Stohr The U.S. Supreme Court considered bolstering the president’s power over federal agencies in a clash over the constitutional status of...
Supreme Court Won’t Hear Sexual Orientation Job Bias Case December 12, 2017 By Greg Stohr The U.S. Supreme Court turned down a chance to decide whether the main federal job-bias law bars discrimination on the...
Supreme Court Hears Law on Human Rights Suits Against Firms October 12, 2017 By Greg Stohr U.S. Supreme Court justices suggested they may bar victims of overseas atrocities from using a centuries-old law to sue corporations...
Supreme Court Limits Out-of-State Residents Joining Class Actions June 20, 2017 By Greg Stohr The U.S. Supreme Court gave companies a new tool to defeat some legal claims, siding with Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. in...
Supreme Court Finds Government Can’t Block Disparaging Trademarks June 19, 2017 By Greg Stohr The U.S. Supreme Court said the federal government can’t constitutionally withhold legal protections for trademarks seen as disparaging, throwing out...
Supreme Court Refuses to Block NFL’s $765 Million Concussion Accord December 12, 2016 By Greg Stohr The U.S. Supreme Court let stand the National Football League’s $765 million concussion settlement, turning away contentions by former players...
Supreme Court ‘Easily’ Settles Insider Trading Liability Question December 7, 2016 By Greg Stohr, Patricia Hurtado and Bob Van Voris For two years, stock traders and the attorneys who represent them said insider-trading law was a muddle, with no one...
Supreme Court Takes Up Case on Liability When Police Provoke Violence December 6, 2016 By Greg Stohr The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to decide whether Los Angeles County and two police officers must pay a $4 million...
Supreme Court to Hear ‘Disparaging’ Trademark Case Similar to NFL’s Redskins’ September 29, 2016 By Greg Stohr The U.S. Supreme Court accepted a new case with implications for the Washington Redskins’ name controversy, agreeing to decide whether...
Supreme Court Makes Room for Triple Damages for Intentional Patent Infringement June 14, 2016 By Greg Stohr The U.S. Supreme Court eased the way for larger damage awards when a company intentionally copies a patented invention. Voting...