Still several months short of the one-year anniversary of its IPO, what has been billed as the world’s first publicly owned law firm, Australia’s Slater & Gordon, has been growing…
Following a Congressional hearing earlier this week in which some observers felt committee members took sides along party lines with famed pitcher Roger Clemens and his former trainer, Brian McNamee,…
A top immigration official admitted in congressional testimony yesterday that the U.S. has detained American citizens on mistaken claims that they are illegal immigrants, but says this is “extremely” rare.
The House has voted to hold former White House counsel Harriet Miers and chief of staff Josh Bolten in contempt for failing to cooperate in a probe of the firing…
Someone had to be lying, as a former trainer testified before a congressional committee yesterday that famed major league baseball pitcher Roger Clemens had repeatedly used steroids, and Clemens insisted…
The Senate voted yesterday to expand the government’s wiretap authority and to protect telecommunications companies that participated in the administration’s surveillance program.
The House did not include telecommunications immunity in…
Physicians are protesting what they say is a new and unprecedented plan by Blue Cross of California to require doctors to collect and report to health insurers patient information that…
A proposal to ban illegal music and film downloaders from using the Internet that has been under discussion for months by Hollywood entertainment industry officials and Internet service providers may…
As six major banks and federal officials announced a relief plan today for delinquent homeowners, critics were already saying that the Project Lifeline program doesn’t do enough to help those…
Prodded by politicians and perhaps seeing a potential benefit to themselves, six major banks are expected to announce a new program tomorrow morning to help seriously past-due mortgage debtors climb…
Still reeling from last week’s murder of five citizens at a Kirkwood, Mo., municipal council meeting by a disgruntled litigant, officials in other St. Louis area municipalities are now discussing…
A defendant in a capital murder case who was represented for more than a year by private lawyers paid for by the state of Georgia has sued his trial judge…
The leading donor to UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute has reportedly pledged another $2 million to its endowment. The groundbreaking think tank focuses its research on sexual orientation law…
In a 6-1 decision today, the Nebraska Supreme Court held that the use of the electric chair is unconstitutional under state law, effectively imposing a death penalty moratorium since this…
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