In court in the Chicago area yesterday to represent the defendant in a hearing over a woman’s request for an order of protection in a domestic relations case, Dan Florey…
A federal appeals court has upheld an injunction that bars the child pornography prosecution of a teen girl in Pennsylvania who appeared topless in a photo that ended up on…
Updated: A federal judge hearing a challenge to California’s gay-marriage ban listened to more than 90 minutes of arguments in a dispute over documents on Tuesday, but abruptly left the…
After a whirlwind romance, an Ohio ophthalmologist says, he proposed to the woman he met at a Labor Day party in New York’s upscale Hamptons at a Diamond Cellar store…
The attorney general of Texas is seeking to intervene in a divorce case involving a same-sex couple, arguing that the two women can’t be legally divorced in the state because…
Today a judge freed eight of the 10 American missionaries being held in Haiti in a child-kidnapping case in which they were accused of trying to take 33 children out…
A Chicago law student who took his 3-year-old daughter to Holy Name Cathedral as a television news crew recorded the event has been arraigned on charges of violating a court…
A woman who was convicted of child abuse in West Virginia and sentenced to one year in jail after she was caught on tape in a hospital trying to smother…
For nine months, Supervising Judge Edwina G. Richardson-Mendelson has overseen the New York City judges who detain juveniles, many of whom suffer from some sort of mental illness.
When real estate investor Max Sakow died in 1956, his handwritten will left one-third of his estate to his wife and said the other two-thirds should be divided equally between…
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