A federal appeals court has reinstated Keri M. Towns’ wrongful termination case against Northeast Mississippi Electric Power Association. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports that the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a Mississippi federal judge who had …
A federal appeals court says an insurance company doesn’t have to pay $1.75 million in damages as part of a settlement involving privately owned juvenile detention facilities in northeastern Pennsylvania. Travelers Property Casualty Co. claimed it was free from paying …
A federal appeals court has ruled that two veteran San Francisco, Calif., television reporters who were laid off were not victims of age discrimination. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said on Tuesday …
A federal appeals court has ruled for Hinds Community College in a workplace retaliation case. In 2010, a Mississippi federal judge ordered the school to pay a former professor $345,020 after a federal jury found she had been the victim …
A federal appeals court says an insurance company should have represented a former director of a West Virginia nonprofit organization in a civil lawsuit. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., sided with Bob Graham in a …
Car owners with warranty claims faced a setback on Wednesday when a federal appeals court withdrew a controversial ruling that had struck down a requirement for arbitration, saying it would now wait for the California Supreme Court to decide on …
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asked a federal appeals court Monday to reconsider a ruling that could hurt its ability to pursue class-action discrimination lawsuits on behalf of workers in the Midwest. The agency filed a petition asking the 8th …
A federal appeals court on Monday revived the bulk of language-software maker Rosetta Stone Inc’s trademark infringement lawsuit against Google Inc. The opinion is the first appellate decision to address whether Google’s sale of other companies’ trademarks for sponsored links …
A Louisiana federal appeals court on Monday threw out a jury’s award of more than $650,000 to two Ohio tourists who were arrested in New Orleans on public drunkenness charges two days before Hurricane Katrina’s landfall and jailed for more …
A federal appeals court is set to hear arguments in the trademark infringement case between sports artist Daniel Moore and the University of Alabama, whose football program is portrayed in a number of his works. They present their cases to …