On March 31, 2025, Judge Sean D. Jordan of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ruled that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lacks the statutory authority to regulate ...

When is a final judgment not final? In an opinion by Justice Thomas unanimously reversing the Second Circuit, the Supreme Court reaffirmed on June 5 that the bar for reopening a final judgment under ...

Since OSHA published its 2024 final rule updating the HazCom standard, many business leaders and EHS professionals have had questions about its impact. Learning about these changes is critical, as the ...

Parties failed to show grounds to unwind the final judgment under Rule 60(b). Torres said final judgments are not private property but public legal assets. The judge emphasized that public interest ...

In 2020, the Supreme Court ruled that a bankruptcy court’s decision to lift the automatic stay of pending litigation imposed by the Bankruptcy Code is a final, appealable order. But what if a ...

UPDATE: May 13, 2025: The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted May 9 the Trump administration's unopposed motion to stay further proceedings in an appeal of the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 ...

E. Travis Ramey (Alabama Law) has posted to SSRN his manuscript, Interlocutory Appeals in Complex Litigation: A Rule 23(f) for Collective Actions, Tul. L. Rev. (forthcoming). Here is the abstract: The ...

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — As the Utah legislature works to appeal Utah’s redistricting ruling that created a Democrat-leaning district, the lawyers for the legislature and voter groups continue to ...