Saying that three jurors had “expressed some concerns” about the acquittal this week of a former Alabama judge in a prisoner-paddling case, Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson Jr. told…
Two excess insurers for Pepper Hamilton don’t have a duty to indemnify the law firm and a partner in a malpractice case. That’s because they didn’t disclose a known risk…
A perfect storm of political unrest, generational conflict and a biased judge set the stage for a 1969 trial that is still memorable 40 years later for its drama and…
A New York immigration lawyer has been barred from appearing again before the New York City-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals due to missed deadlines that resulted in the…
Two dissenting justices argue the U.S. Supreme Court should have heard a case on the power of police to pull over drunken-driving suspects based only on anonymous tips.
Responding to a claim that Anthony McKinney has spent 31 years in an Illinois prison for a murder he didn’t commit, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office has asked for…
In a new twist on a controversial case involving what some believe was the execution of an innocent man for setting the 1991 fire that killed his children, it is…
Saying that statements made on social networking sites are admissible as evidence of a defendant’s character, the Indiana Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the conviction of a Northern Indiana man…
Sentenced to a 120-day jail term for harshly criticizing a judge, other court officials and a prosecutor in a legal filing, attorney Carl Smith, 62, is asking the Missouri Supreme…
Even though his employment file at Moser Patterson & Sheridan contained a note “older & better paid/younger & cheaper,” attorney John Kelly’s age discrimination suit against the New Jersey law…
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