A defense lawyer says a “tainted” case should be dismissed against a sergeant accused, along with five other current or former New Orleans police officers, in the killing of civilians…
In a blistering opinion (PDF) today, a federal appeals court not only stated or implied that a lawyer had been untruthful in his certification that a brief met…
Courts that oversee the thousands of foreclosure cases being pursued by the Law Offices of David J. Stern are reportedly in chaos, following news this week that the firm is…
A federal judge in New Jersey has refused to grant class action status to a lawsuit that claims law firm management software contained a hidden “time bomb” that caused it…
Former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Harvey Pitt was testifying in a deposition as an expert witness for securities class-action plaintiffs suing Fannie Mae when he apparently decided he had…
The U.S. Supreme Court says the family of a Korean War veteran with paranoid schizophrenia may be entitled to appeal a denial of supplemental disability benefits even though he missed…
Mass torts expert Kenneth Feinberg, in the news for overseeing the BP fund to compensate Gulf oil victims, once believed that lawyers accused of bilking their…
A federal judge in New Orleans has held the Interior Department in civil contempt for its “dismissive conduct” after he struck down its moratorium on deepwater oil drilling.
A federal judge has tossed a lawsuit challenging the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretap program because the plaintiffs—a liberal legal group and five of its lawyers—don’t have standing.
A federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit claiming Minnesota’s governor has misused the process for filling judicial vacancies to prevent elections for chief justice in the state.
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