A federal judge has handed the White House a legal victory in battle with the Democratic National Committee over e-mails related to U.S. attorney firings. District Judge Ellen Huvelle of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled on Thursday that the DNC does not have a right under the Freedom of Information […]
Xerox Corp., the world’s largest maker of high-speed color printers, said it received preliminary court approval to settle an eight-year-old investor lawsuit for $670 million. Xerox will take a $491 million first-quarter charge to cover the settlement and other cases, the Norwalk, Connecticut-based company said today in a statement. Xerox will pay the settlement into
Heather Mills has hired a new team of forensic accountants to try to prove that ex-husband Paul McCartney is worth double the £400 million he claimed in their divorce struggle, according to friends of the former model. The Daily Mail reports that Miss Mills has told friends she cannot support daughter Beatrice on the £35,000
In the late summer of 1985, Kurt Parrott, a 15-year-old who loved baseball and Pac-Man, was thrown from his motorcycle in Opelika, Ala. The buckle of his helmet failed, and he died when his bare head hit the pavement. Mr. Parrott’s mother sued the Italian company that made the helmet, and an Alabama court awarded
Duane Quaini, former chairman of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, took the witness stand last week and had to answer questions about a subject most people would find uncomfortable: his salary. He testified in a case in a Washington, D.C., court brought by a former partner who is suing the firm over inadequate pay. The trial,
She claimed it was the “power of one” that did it — and that it saved her more than £600,000 in legal fees. But was Heather Mills’ decision to act for herself a triumph or disaster? And should it pave the way for a surge in DIY litigation? Lawyers, Mills said as she celebrated her
On a warm fall evening in 2004, not long after he was elected to the U.S. Senate from Illinois, Barack Obama attended an intimate Washington dinner party. Seated next to him was Covington & Burling’s Eric Holder Jr. — a high-profile litigation partner and former deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration. The two men
A San Diego Superior Court judge ruled yesterday that Starbucks has to pay nearly $106 million in restitution to an estimated 120,000 current and former baristas in California because the coffee company illegally allowed supervisors to share in tip pools over the past eight years. The four-paragraph ruling by Superior Court Judge Patricia Cowett capped
Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was stripped of his ability to practice law on Thursday as a result of his conviction in the CIA leak case. The former White House aide was found guilty a year ago of obstruction of justice and lying. Those are considered crimes
The bargain-basement sale of Bear Stearns to JPMorgan Chase brought out some of the biggest names in the legal profession. Sullivan & Cromwell; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft represented Bear Stearns in its sale, subject to shareholder approval, to JPMorgan Chase for $236 million, or $2 a share. Wachtell,
