Prosecutors trying Casey Anthony, a 25-year-old Florida woman charged with murdering her young daughter, were armed with Internet information during a special Saturday jury selection, checking out panel members’ social…
A lawyer who was dissatisfied with the sexual enhancement pills he bought over the Internet will be able to proceed with his lawsuit because of a favorable ruling by a…
If an officer illegally enters an Indiana home, the resident has no right to resist, the state supreme court there ruled Thursday, on the basis that allowing resistance would increase…
After a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court opinion that found Chicago’s entry-level firefighter test had a disparate impact based on race, the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today ordered…
Judicial Watch, which describes itself as a conservative education foundation, filed a lawsuit today seeking the release of Osama bin Laden’s death photos and videos. It is one of many…
As jury selection continued in the Casey Anthony case on Thursday, lawyers hinted at strategies and a defense lawyer complained about media reports of a client scolding.
Updated: A federal judge in Utah has asked the FBI to explain why it hasn’t searched all possible databases and evidence rooms for surveillance tapes related to the 1995 bombing…
A Minnesota judge accused of a “vitriolic attack” on a court-monitoring group and its members’ intimidating red clipboards has won dismissal of ethics charges stemming from the incident.
An embattled California attorney known as the tax lady says she is broke and is closing her law firm of 20 years, which at one point employed 200 people.
A postal inspector and a paralegal who allegedly had a secret romance while working on opposing sides during a lawyer’s mortgage fraud trial have been charged with perjury and obstruction…
Corrected: A lawyer representing the defendant in an ongoing felony murder and child-abuse trial was taken from a Michigan courtroom in handcuffs and jailed over the lunch hour after refusing…
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