Kenya’s Supreme Court has ruled that banks and financial institutions must get approval from the Treasury before altering interest rates, a decision likely to expose them to litigation as customers reassess existing loan agreements. More than 39 commercial banks, including Standard Chartered, Diamond Trust and Co-op, operate in Kenya with…

An attorney urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Friday to uphold a district judge’s ruling in favor of a group of publishers who filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the nonprofit Internet Archive for its e-book offerings. Elizabeth McNamara of Davis Wright Tremaine. Courtesy photo…

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A team at Steptoe secured a $ 171.6 million judgment for client Eddystone Rail Company LLC against propane company Ferrellgas Partners and certain of its affiliates. After a 19-day bench trial handled in spurts dating back to September 2022, U.S. District Judge Joshua Wolson in Philadelphia found in a decision…

A civil settlement between Parkland school mass shooter Nikolas Cruz and a student who survived the massacre means Cruz is now prohibited from granting any interviews without the written consent of Anthony Borges, the young man he attempted to murder on Feb. 14, 2018. And the deal also controls what happens to…

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has announced plans to implement amended regulations governing the entry of U.K. lawyers and law firms to the Indian legal market. The update follows the authority’s move last March, announcing the liberalization of the Indian legal market after more than two decades of restrictions.