NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield may be the latest professional athlete to take his case to the federal courts, but one Midwest law prof expects many more to follow.
Two well-known college quarterbacks have filed lawsuits that claim a video game maker is improperly profiting from digital players that resemble themselves.
As many remember Michael Jackson for his Thriller work or read his will in the Smoking Gun today, some lawyers recall him for an innovative dance shoe…
A poverty lawyer turned to a newspaper columnist after her parents discovered their “travel protection” plan wouldn’t give them a cruise refund, despite her father’s heart attack and later death.
As an autopsy began today to determine the exact cause of Michael Jackson’s sudden death yesterday at age 50, police plan to question his personal physician further.
A 71-year-old songwriter and movie director known for his Oscar-winning 1977 pop tune You Light Up My Life has been charged with sexually assaulting 11 young women he allegedly lured…
Is Randall Kessler, the Atlanta-based celebrity lawyer, the first counsel to be dumped on Twitter? That was the question buzzing around the blogosphere.
FBI documents recently released to the Associated Press following a Freedom of Information Act request reveal a national effort by the law enforcement agency to stop the…
A former Miss California USA stripped of her title for allegedly shirking her beauty queen duties says it isn’t so and is threatening to sue for defamation.
A deposition yesterday in a lawsuit filed in an attempt to recover assets from O.J. Simpson to pay a $19.7 million civil wrongful death judgment has reportedly located the “lucky…
A new reality-based movie in which observers react to the outlandish antics of Borat actor Sacha Baron Cohen is creating work for defense lawyers even before its scheduled July 10…
A lawsuit filed by the son of former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani over his dismissal from Duke University’s varsity golf team last year is in the rough, reports the…
A California lawmaker is now facing battles on two fronts, as he seeks the Republican nomination in an effort to unseat Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) in 2010.
A baseball fan who says he was ejected from a New York Yankees game after answering the call of nature rather than staying in his seat for the singing of…
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