Two related claims in Pennsylvania state and federal courts should not automatically result in the federal court abstaining from involvement, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Aug.

RICHMOND, Va. — A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday on the legal definition of piracy, saying an armed attack on a U.S. vessel can be considered piracy even if no one ever boards or robs the ship.

A federal appeals court revived two inmates’ prison sex abuse lawsuit Tuesday, finding that the judge who threw out the case had too narrowly interpreted a 1997 ruling on what amounts to cruel and ...

In a recent case, the Fifth Circuit addressed the definition of “the return” for purposes of starting the statute of limitations. In a win for the taxpayer, the court held that the regulatorily ...