Apparently frightened by her mother’s driving, an unidentified 12-year-old girl in New York reportedly called 911 repeatedly from the car on a cell phone to report her parent as an…
Agreeing with defense lawyers that a claimed marital rape involving two teenagers hadn’t been properly focused upon in jury instructions, the Utah Supreme Court has overturned unusual felony accomplice rape…
In an apparent effort to extend the frontiers of defamation law where cyberbullying is concerned, a New York law firm sued four former classmates of an Oceanside High School student…
A basic principle law students are taught in first-year torts class is that defendants who happen to injure a fragile plaintiff can’t point to the victim’s weakness to excuse their…
Career-damaging audiotapes of Mel Gibson using racial slurs and telling his girlfriend she deserved to be hit were apparently recorded without his permission, making it unclear whether they could be…
A lawyer who was blinded after being shot along with his wife at their South Florida home in 2004 in an alleged contract hit testified today against his 31-year-old son…
A 42-year-old California lawyer has agreed to plead no contest to one of three felonies he faced after allegedly filing a civil suit against a witness in a stalking case…
The former co-chair of the antitrust practice at Gray Plant Mooty in Minnesota, set to go on trial Monday on a charge of criminal sexual conduct with a teen boy,…
To the extent that impeached former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich may admit any mistaken conduct on the stand if he testifies, as expected, in his ongoing political corruption trial, there…
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