National Law Journal

law.com — SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. took home a defense verdict on Wednesday in its smartphone fight with Oracle Corp. after a jury rejected all claims of patent infringement.

law.com — At least four securities class action firms have said they were in the process of filing lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of Facebook shareholders.

law.com — SAN FRANCISCO - The Alameda County district attorney's office placed two more employees on leave in the wake of revelations that prosecutor Danielle London had taped a murder defendant's jailhouse conversation with a defense expert.

law.com — Some six months after the Montana Supreme Court upheld a 100-year-old state law limiting independent expenditures by corporations on behalf of political candidates or committees, a federal judge has barred enforcement of related state campaign restrictions.

law.com — According to a new law school project released May 21, exonerations in the United States since 1989 have topped 2,000 - and, as one of the registry's editors put it, those merely represent "the tip of an iceberg."

law.com — In a case at the intersection of law and modern reproductive technology, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that state inheritance laws will determine whether children conceived after their fathers' death are eligible for Social Security survivors benefits.

law.com — A former law student has won a bid in bankruptcy court to discharge nearly $340,000 in education debt because her diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome rendered her unable to repay the loans. The U.S.

law.com — According to a new law school project released May 21, exonerations in the United States since 1989 have topped 2,000 - and, as one of the registry's editors put it, those merely represent "the tip of an iceberg."