A New York lawyer who practices in upscale Westchester County has been charged with bribery and witness-tampering concerning the manner in which he allegedly handled a client’s criminal cases.
Wrongfully convicted of murdering a rabbi in 1994, a high-school dropout who served 16 years before being exonerated due largely to his own pro se legal work from prison has…
The children of a patient in a nursing home in Sugar Land, Texas, have sued the facility, alleging that they can’t visit their mother there because they have been banned…
Dick George was allegedly pulled out of his car, arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for taking cellphone photos of New York City police officers as they were stopping and…
A confidential informant helping New York authorities in a gun probe has filed a civil rights suit against the Brooklyn district attorney’s office, contending that his cover was blown by…
An immigration judge in Los Angeles has sued the Justice Department for alleged discrimination and violations of her First Amendment rights after she was ordered to recuse in cases of…
In a class action lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in Philadelphia, a civil rights group accuses city officials, including the district attorney, of operating an illegal civil forfeiture “machine”…
A federal appeals court says a district judge erred by determining in a preliminary screening that a pro se complaint had no merit and should not be pursued in court.…
Next year, Paulette Brown will become the first woman of color to be president of the ABA. In her speech to the ABA House of Delegates Tuesday morning as the…
A federal magistrate judge in New Mexico has dismissed a lawsuit claiming Albuquerque police failed to properly investigate the death of a civil rights lawyer who frequently sued the police…
In 2013, after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act in U.S. v. Windsor and cleared the way for same-sex marriages to resume in California with…
Immigration detainees face an uphill battle to avoid deportation, and oftentimes they have to face government lawyers without representation of their own.
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