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Instead of calling it Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts, Bob Haig, the editor-in-chief of this now 15 volume work, could just as easily ha...

My latest "Ambrogi on Tech" column for the ABA Journal looks at PacerPro, a better way to search the federal courts' Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system. Started by a lawyer ...

Susan Eisenberg, a member of Cozen O'Connor's Labor & Employment department, spoke with Yahoo! about the evolution of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

At least two federal courts saw promising applicants for employment hit the road after witnessing the “angst and stress” federal employees experienced during the recent government shutdown, one of many blows the court system took due to the lack of funding this past month.

Important changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure will take effect on December 1, 2015. From that date on, if you serve a federal complaint (or are served one), you will need to know the new r

A federal court on Tuesday ruled that random searches of international travelers' phones and computers by the government violates the Fourth Amendment.

Yikes! No practitioner wants to be on the receiving end of a decision that starts with the title of this post. And yet, that’s precisely how...

Texas is back in federal court yet again defending one of the nation's strictest voter ID laws — this time against charges that the state is violating its own recent agreement to soften the rules ahead of the November election.

A long-standing immigration law that imposes criminal punishment for “encouraging or inducing” someone to enter or remain in the United States illegally violates freedom of speech, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. People can be punished for helping others to violate the law, including the law against illegal entry, but “encouraging” and “inducing” are typically acts of expression that cannot be criminalized, said the Ninth U.S…

Updated Jan. 10: Federal courts have tacked on a week to the amount of time they hope to continue paid operations during the government shutdown. But they are still making plans for scaled-down operations after the money is expected to run out.

Not following the applicable rules and filing documents incorrectly can have consequences ranging from losing credibility with your judge to blowing your deadline to file a dispositive motion because your motion was stricken or denied.

In a series of opinions issued over the past few months, federal judges in California have reiterated that insurers must wait until they are finished defending their policyholders before they sue thos

Unless changes are made to the budget allocated to the Idaho federal courts, there could be significant delays to civil cases in Idaho’s federal courts. This may affect employers (and employees) who end up in Idaho’s federal courts. Click here for more of the story
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In a previous post , I noted the negative impact that Idaho’s federal judges are predicting because of the federal “sequestration” budget cuts. Since that time, several Idaho lawyers, including our own Craig Meadows , wrote an op-ed piece urging Idaho’s federal delegation to support efforts to address the budget issue. Click here to read the article
It now remains to be seen what actions Idaho’s…

Federal courts have broad authority to manage discovery, but when it comes to punishing litigants for discovery violations, their inherent authority is limited by rule and now Supreme Court precedent. Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court held that any sanction imposed for discovery misconduct pursuant to a court's inherent authority must be compensatory, rather than punitive, in nature and that a court may only award legal fees that would not have been incurred but for the bad-faith conduct.

The Free Law Project disclosed the existence of the security issue publicly in a blog post but did not provide details.

Earlier this month, a federal magistrate judge in the Eastern District of New York, Judge Lois Bloom, issued a report and recommendation (“R&R”) that the ultimate sanction of defaul…

A federal appeals court has ruled that Amazon can be sued over a defective product sold by one of its third-party vendors
A Pennsylvania woman sued after a retractable dog leash she bought online snapped and hit her four years ago, leaving her permanently blind in one eye.
In a 2-1 decision released last week, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia said Amazon can be classified as a seller in part because it doesn't allow customers to communicate directly with…

"...there was no clearly established law holding that officers violate the Fourth or Fourteenth Amendment when they steal property that is seized pursuant to a warrant."