The Fox News-Roger Ailes sexual harassment scandal has created plenty of headaches for parent company 21st Century Fox. Here’s another...
Articles by Paul Barrett
Lawyers who defend companies in product liability cases are celebrating an unusual order by a federal judge in Columbus, Georgia....
Can a debt collector accused of crossing the line avoid liability by buying a consumer’s legal claim out from under...
Chevron wasn’t the only winner in Monday’s ruling by a federal appeals court over its long-running Ecuadorian pollution litigation. The...
The U.S. Supreme Court fairly predictably sides with corporations in their clashes with consumers, but the business-friendly rulings often come...
For all the black robes and ceremony, the American legal system often operates more like a factory assembly line than...
An $18 billion liability figure attached itself last Friday to Volkswagen’s diesel disaster. This morning comes news that the German...
In early March a 30,000-pound mat of oily gunk washed up on East Grand Terre, a barrier island in the...
BP has abruptly switched legal strategies—again—in the multi-billion-dollar liability fight stemming from the April 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill....
The Supreme Court sometimes surprises. In oral arguments Wednesday about the latest conservative attempt to undermine President Obama’s health-reform program,...