A Rockville, Md., lawyer who reportedly collaborated with a California attorney to flout adoption and surrogacy laws in a baby-selling scheme has been disbarred.
The Indiana Supreme Court yesterday ordered the interim suspension of a lawyer accused last year of kicking in a door, committing a battery on her boyfriend and carrying a knife…
A Muslim woman who reportedly was jailed for contempt of court after she refused to remove her religious head covering when she tried to accompany a nephew to a Georgia…
In an effort to address complaints by Muslim inmates that the Ohio prison system doesn’t provide them with halal meals prepared in accord with their religion’s dietary laws, administrators decided…
Corrected: A federal judge in Akron was emotional yesterday as she sentenced a former Ohio jurist to the maximum allowed by sentencing guidelines in a political corruption case.
It appears that a convicted murderer who missed a critical death penalty appeal because of his BigLaw counsel’s failure to open the firm’s mail and see that the clock was…
Many cities and towns have passed laws banning registered sex offenders from hanging out in places where children are known to congregate, like playgrounds and community swimming pools.
When Cory R. Maples heard that he was going to be represented in his murder appeal by lawyers from one of New York’s most prestigious law firms, “I thought I…
Traditionally, as in the case of Enron’s former chief executive, Kenneth Lay, criminal convictions in many jurisdictions have been abated if the defendant died before sentencing or while his appeal…
Updated: A woman who defied a religious and cultural ban by driving in Saudi Arabia was initially sentenced to 10 lashes in a landmark case in the ultraconservative Muslim county.
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