Can a government employee be fired for truthful testimony given after being subpoenaed? The answer to this question seems obvious: Such a firing of an employee for his or her…
Predicting that monetary sanctions will prove an ineffective if a Louisiana sheriff continues to miss discovery deadlines in litigation over conditions at Orleans Parish Prison, a federal magistrate has come…
Two suspended sheriff’s officers were federally charged Friday in a claimed conspiracy to violate civil rights that is linked to a now-disbarred Florida lawyer serving a 50-year prison term in…
In a case questioning how a new Arkansas law requiring voters to present photo IDs would apply to absentee voters, a Pulaski County Circuit judge startled some onlookers by ruling…
In what is being described in news reports as a major publicity fail, the New York Police Department asked followers of its Twitter page to post photos of city officers…
Vaughn Walker, the openly gay U.S. district court judge who presided over a California trial that led to the legalization of same-sex marriage, underwent “conversion” therapy to become straight, a…
A California woman says squad car dashcam video shows Santa Clara sheriff’s deputies planted drug evidence at her home after an illegal search came up clean.
A lawyer known for his work on behalf of supporters of California’s Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in the state, says he learned while working on the case that…
A suburban Chicago man has filed a federal civil rights suit against five police officers, following a “Perry Mason” moment in court last month that resulted in the…
It took less than two hours of deliberation Thursday for a federal jury in New York to decide to award $18 million, each, to two men in a wrongful conviction…
The controversial conviction of an email hacker has been vacated by a federal appeals court, not because of issues with the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act but because Andrew Auernheimer…
The U.S. Justice Department has concluded that police in Albuquerque, N.M., committed civil rights violations by using excessive and deadly force in inappropriate situations.
Upholding an earlier summary judgment ruling by a trial judge, a federal appeals court has held that two Florida law enforcement officers who secretly watched and recorded an attorney-client meeting…
A Louisiana lawyer has been caught up in a complex legal situation after an April 2012 taxicab incident resulted in criminal charges against both the attorney, who was a passenger…
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