The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected a Harvard Law School graduate’s claims that the New York State Board of Law Examiners wrongly denied test-taking accommodations during the bar exam, affirming the board’s sovereign immunity protections. In a July 19 opinion, authored by Second Circuit Judge William J. Nardini, the…

Los Angeles firm Affeld England & Johnson secured $138 million in damages for a crypto mining entrepreneur against Las Vegas digital asset tech company Marathon Digital Holdings in a breach-of-contract suit. The unanimous jury verdict was released Thursday following a two-week trial in federal court. Plaintiff Michael Ho, formerly a co-founder and CEO…

Live Nation’s chief executive officer got a stay from a deposition order in the 2021 Astroworld Festival multidistrict litigation for what plaintiffs claim is an unjustifiable desire for international travel. On Friday, the Texas Supreme Court granted an emergency motion for temporary relief for Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino.

A jury in Union County, New Jersey, returned a $1.2 million verdict in a suit by a woman who tripped on an uneven sidewalk while jogging. According to a defense attorney, the case is now headed for the Appellate Division. Patrick Flinn, a partner with Levinson Axelrod. Courtesy photo Ellen…

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…