Former U.S. bankruptcy judge David Jones confirmed he was under criminal investigation at a recent court hearing in which he tried to ward off public questions about his once-secret romantic relationship with a Houston bankruptcy lawyer.
William Ramey, a Houston-based patent lawyer who has filed more than 100 lawsuits this year alone, is on the hook for Volkswagen‘s legal bills after a federal judge dismissed his client VDPP‘s lawsuit against the automaker, marking the latest in a series of sanctions against him or his clients for litigation misconduct. David Thomas has more.
Every time the U.S. Supreme Court agrees to review a ruling in a securities class action case, defendants assert that the issues transcend their case and should be of concern to other businesses. So with the justices scheduled to hear two cases involving pleading standards for shareholder fraud complaints — one against Facebook and the other against Nvidia — Alison Frankel took a look at amicus filings by pro-business groups in the two dockets.
