An exotic dancer with dwarfism is allowed to proceed with a defamation lawsuit alleging that HBO’s docudrama “We Own This City,” falsely implied that she engaged in prostitution with the former leader of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Task Force, a federal judge ruled last week.        

“This is the exact same product that is product and sold across Ohio under a variety of names. It’s a chicken tender, it’s a chicken finger, it’s a chicken strip … Common sense has to come in here and that’s part of the reasonable expectation test,” Byrnes said on behalf of Wayne Farms and GFS. […]

The Oregon Supreme Court has held that genetics doesn’t establish parental interest, settling a dispute between biological parents who conceived a child through surrogacy.        

It appears to be the largest Title IX verdict for a male since the law was created, The Beasley Firm’s Lane Jubb Jr., who represented plaintiff John Abraham, said.        

Nuclear reactor company NuScale Power’s failed Idaho project has spurred at least one lawsuit so far from plaintiff attorneys who say executives’ comments about the likelihood of pulling it off were overly rosy.        

Appellate lawyer M.C. Sungaila, creator and host of the Portia Project podcast, has interviewed nearly 100 women judges about their careers. In today’s guest column, she shares the types of advocacy her guests find effective and helpful in their decision-making.        

The settlement is for £1.5 million, and applies only to CSAV, one of the five defendant shipping groups which the class representative has taken action against.        

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Most of the law firms that have confirmed matches to the latest associate salary scale have PEP above $2 million a year and more than $1 dollars in gross revenue.        

The Senate on Monday confirmed federal public defender Richard Federico to a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit that has been vacant for more than two years.