A California mom successfully used Facebook to search for the two children she hadn’t seen in nearly 15 years, after their father allegedly took them and told her she would…
A magistrate judge and a court clerk were shot to death today in Belgium as they were in a courtroom working on a civil case near the Palais de Justice…
An Arkansas mother who posted messages on her 17-year-old son’s Facebook account, making it look as though social networking messages she wrote came from him, has been convicted of harassment…
Angry over the property settlement in his divorce case three years ago, a bank guard shot and killed three judges in a different court in China today as they met…
Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel has fired a longtime real estate partner after questions were raised about his dual role, as an attorney and as a developer, concerning a planned…
After being held for months, an American Baptist missionary accused of attempting to take dozens of Haitian children out of the country illegally after the devastating earthquake in January has…
A judge in Utah has dismissed a protective order giving the state custody of a baby whose Arizona parents are accused of arranging to sell it for $6,000 to a…
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is defending the state’s payment of more than $120,000 for expert witness testimony by an anti-gay psychologist now caught up in the so-called Rentboy scandal.
Two years ago, it was Dominic Barbara’s wife who was arrested after the well-known New York matrimonial lawyer claimed she threw a plate of pasta at him. (The case was…
The attorney general of Texas is a staunch supporter of the state law requiring marriage (and, he says, by extension divorce) to be between a man and a woman.
As the disgraced former mayor of Detroit faces a possible jail term for having violated his probation in a political corruption case by not making required payments toward his $1…
A Virginia father’s fight to regain custody of a daughter adopted without his consent highlights Utah’s pro-adoption laws in cases of children born out of wedlock.
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