Contending that their First Amendment right to religious freedom is being abridged by too-zealous enforcement of a New York municipality’s building codes, a group of Amish families plans to file…
Eliot Spitzer, whose law-and-order image was tarnished earlier this year when his reported use of high-class prostitutes made international headlines, won’t be federally prosecuted.
Nearly 25 years after a catastrophic accident in Bhopal, India, killed thousands of people, a federal appeals court in the U.S. has reinstated a 2004 lawsuit concerning those allegedly exposed…
A federal magistrate in Brooklyn is recommending a default judgment against defendants who sought to destroy evidence by secretly replacing his computer.
If the recommendation is adopted, the sanction would…
Updated: As a longtime law professor and now dean, Erwin Chemerinsky is a regular on the pro bono scene. So when he read news reports that 2nd U.S. Circuit Court…
A federal appeals court has refused to vacate a trial judge’s sanctions against three lawyers found to have filed a meritless lawsuit. The court also criticized their attempt to remove…
The chief judge of the New York City-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blasted pro bono work as “anti-social” and “self-serving” at a Federalist Society meeting this week.
Nice work if you can get it: In a fee application filed yesterday in federal bankruptcy court in New York, one of the nation’s most renowned corporate bankruptcy law practice…
Because the jury was allowed to hear inflammatory testimony, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday tossed out the convictions of two men who had been found guilty…
A New York civil rights practitioner was sentenced to two years of probation on Friday in a criminal contempt case that resulted from the way she handled a federal court…
Finding that a trial judge had mistakenly applied the statute of limitations, a federal appeals court has reinstated the racketeering convictions of two retired New York City police detectives who…
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