Lawyers who won $183,000 for the family of a man who died in 2005 after being Tasered dozens of times by Salinas, Calif., police have now been awarded $1.4 million…
Ruling yesterday on free-speech grounds, the New Jersey Supreme Court said a municipal ordinance banning a labor union from displaying a 10-foot-tall inflatable rat at protest sites was a violation…
A perp walk on Wednesday featured more than 200 individuals in shackles and prison stripes headed to a new tent city for illegal immigrants in Phoenix.
Those in the CIA who followed legal directives of the U.S. Department of Justice won’t be prosecuted under official White House policy, even if they crossed the line into what…
Like another alleged white-collar criminal who has been much in the news lately, attorney Marc Dreier will soon be out of jail and under house arrest. He is to be…
A suspended judge who formerly served as the president judge of Luzerne County had been changing sentences for some convicted felons, often without the knowledge of the judges who originally…
A California judge has rejected a Sixth Amendment challenge to the local district attorney’s practice of data-mining phone calls from county jails for information about criminal cases.
Two federal judges on the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have required payment of health insurance benefits to same-sex spouses of lawyers employed by the U.S. government.
Updated: A 20-year-old student got an icy retort from Justice Antonin Scalia on Tuesday when she asked why cameras are not permitted in the U.S. Supreme Court.
After news that two now-suspended senior Luzerne County judges have agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges, Pennsylvania state lawmakers plan to discuss possible compensation for juveniles that the two…
Updated: The toy maker that sells Beanie Babies has retired two dolls that raised the ire of first lady Michelle Obama, leaving one less issue for the president’s lawyers to…
In the entire world, only eight people reportedly are serving life terms for rape that were imposed for crimes committed when the defendant was 13 years old. All are in…
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