Facts: South State Bank held a $4.6 million judgment against Kyle Tauch, an individual. The Bank offered to settle the judgment debt for $2 million. Before Tauch accepted the offer, the Bank entered ...

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has split with the Third Circuit, the Eleventh Circuit, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and utilized contract principles to hold that a consumer ...

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court held that courts may not take into account the so-called retributive considerations—the need for the sentence to reflect the seriousness of the offense, promote respect ...

The U.S. Supreme Court, resolving a split of authority, has ruled that a Minnesota law that automatically revokes one spouse’s designation of the other spouse as the beneficiary of a life insurance ...