The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that a new constitutional criminal procedure rule involving eyewitness identification can apply retroactively because of the advances in science displaying the unreliability of the evidence. Edgar Tatum, the habeas petitioner, was convicted of murder in 1990 after a jury trial in relation to the shooting…

A federal judge overseeing protracted litigation in a lawsuit brought by Abbott Laboratories over intellectual property and anticounterfeiting of diabetes test strips has agreed to freeze protection trusts held by defendants that were allegedly used to dodge paying a $33 million judgment. Plaintiff Illinois-based Abbott Laboratories sued hundreds of defendants…

The New Jersey Appellate Division weighed in Friday on two putative class actions reaching different conclusions by Camden County judges in suits over contaminated water, clarifying that municipalities charging a water fee do not create an implied contract with their residents. The issue in both cases, Cerkez v. Gloucester City and Hoffman…

President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign possesses a substantial bank account that stands to aid a different candidate, whether it’s Vice President Kamala Harris or another individual, if Biden drops out of the presidential race. However, political law attorneys are divided on how easily Biden’s campaign cash could change hands. Some…

One of the Delaware defamation cases against the conservative Newsmax television network has seen filings challenging expert witness testimony pile up recently, and it’s not the one that’s going to trial in two months. Smartmatic, the voting technology company represented by Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, and Newsmax, represented by Young Conaway Stargatt…

A major IT outage caused ripple effects across the globe on Friday, as many workers awoke to find the now-infamous “blue screen of death” on their computers when they tried to start their workdays. The outage was reportedly caused by a glitch that occurred during an update to CrowdStrike Falcon,…