Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, a former legal adviser to Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy who famously faced off with then-Gov. George C. Wallace in 1963 at the main building…
A veteran prosecutor in Alameda County, Calif., has been put on administrative leave while a potential violation of attorney-client privilege is probed.
At first, a 23-year-old engineering student at the University of California-San Diego says he was simply annoyed to be left for hours in a federal Drug Enforcement Administration holding cell…
Calling the conduct of the San Diego City Attorney’s office “shocking,” a California judge dismissed an entire jury panel Tuesday after finding that prosecutors violated the defendants’ rights in a…
Updated: A longtime New York state government lawyer until he was embroiled in a criminal case for making racist, threatening phone calls in 2010 to his black neighbors in Albany…
One of Kentucky’s most prominent civil rights lawyers has been disbarred after failing to remit to three clients over $150,000 to which they were entitled.
An opinion by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says discrimination against transgender workers amounts to sex discrimination that violates federal law.
In a landmark North Carolina ruling that is the first to apply the state Racial Justice Act to the case of a death row inmate, a Cumberland County judge has…
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