For years, an Oregon justice of the peace allegedly commented to clerks and parties in cases at Central Lane Justice Court about their sex lives, among other objectionable topics.
Although the Securities and Exchange Commission suspected as early as 1997 that R. Allen Stanford was running a Ponzi scheme, and its examiners concluded four times between 1997 and 2004…
A record fine of $16.4 million that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is seeking to impose on Toyota Motor Corp. will probably help the plaintiffs…
Adding to the legal woes of the embattled Toyota Motor Corp. is facing over reported sudden-acceleration problems in its vehicles, the U.S. Department of Transportation today announced that it is…
Already in the forefront of efforts to quash a so-called Red Flags Rule promulgated by the Federal Trade Commission concerning identity theft issues, the American Bar Association is now raising…
The Federal Trade Commission says it will appeal a federal judge’s decision upholding the American Bar Association’s position that the so-called Red Flags Rule doesn’t apply to lawyers.
Although a U.S. Department of Justice report last week recommended no sanctions be pursued against two lawyers who authored controversial terrorism memos, that doesn’t appear to be the final answer…
In an about-face from earlier internal recommendations that two former Department of Justice lawyers be pursued for alleged ethics violations concerning their authorship of legal memoranda blessing controversial interrogation techniques…
It began with an administrative law judge’s request for a disabled parking space near the building where he works for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington,…
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