A Colorado judge has nixed seven perjury counts against a Fort Collins police investigator blamed for the wrongful 1999 murder conviction of Timothy Masters, finding that the state had brought…
A South Carolina attorney has been publicly reprimanded by the state supreme court for overselling his small firm’s experience and expertise by exaggerating and making statements that could not be…
Casey Anthony, a Florida woman accused of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, doesn’t want her parents at her trial, and argued to keep them out, on the basis of her right…
Assistant prosecutors in Milwaukee County are set to take a 20 percent pay cut starting May 8, following a negotiation breakdown with the state of Wisconsin.
An Oklahoma appeals court has overturned a woman’s murder conviction because a judge advised jurors not to be “hardheads” and told them to reach a quick verdict.
A Philadelphia judge admits she called a defendant “vile,” but it got deleted from the transcript because of her request for deletion of “nonjudicial” comments, according to a Pennsylvania Supreme…
After a Muslim woman was arrested and jailed for refusing to remove her hijab as she tried to enter a Douglas County courtroom, the Georgia Judicial Council adopted a policy…
For the second time, a murder trial of a relative accused of killing two California lawyers in the vacation home that was the subject of a legal dispute has ended…
Fed-up with mistakes and missed appearances, a judge on the west coast of Florida called the heads of two east coast foreclosure law firms into court to explain themselves.
Actress Donna Douglas, who played buxom, none-too-bright Elly May Clampett on the 1960s television hit The Beverly Hillbillies, has filed a federal lawsuit against Mattel Inc., over the toymaker’s new…
Four Miller & Chevalier lawyers who often worked on International Trade Commission intellectual property disputes couldn’t take as many as they were offered because of conflicts of interest.
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