Despite a plethora of laws already on the books, there’s still plenty of bad behavior that hasn’t yet been banned. But officials in New York and Hawaii are proposing laws…
A national credit card company whose workers told a vision-impaired woman that she had to fill out a written form to make a complaint about merchandise she says she was…
Despite at least six complaints over a period of nearly a decade that Bernard Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme under the guise of a hedge fund, the U.S. Securities…
A reception for lawmakers hosted by the New York State Trial Lawyers Association may have violated a state ethics law, according to a state commission.
A state law took effect in Illinois in 2002 requiring officials to collect DNA samples from convicts before they were released from prison or county probation.
When the power failed at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit four years ago, overworked physicians and staff isolated for days in the sweltering building without…
A federal judge today began hearing arguments in a constitutional case initially brought pro se by a Georgia sex offender over a new state law requiring him to provide his…
A lawsuit filed against the Pittsburgh Public Schools claims a straight-A student developed anorexia because bullies taunted the girl about her weight and school officials did nothing to stop it.
A controversial proposal to impose a two-month curfew in Paterson, N.J., for individuals of all ages after a number of deadly shootings has been drawing fire from civil libertarians, and…
Addicted to a powerful painkiller, Kristen Diane Parker admittedly stole fentanyl from empty operating rooms at the Denver, Colo., hospital in which she worked.
Many federal courts make their case documents readily available online—for a price. And even though it’s only 8 cents a page, that can quickly add up for frequent users.
Two fired in-house lawyers who claim they were fired for raising questions about possible securities fraud at their employer may pursue their lawsuit as a result of a federal appeals…
For the third year in a row, bankruptcy filings have surged. Total filings topped 1.3 million during the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2009, a 35 percent increase over…
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