Another case concerning employment tests for firefighters is back before the U.S. Supreme Court, but the issue is the timing for filing a complaint. A decision for the city of…
An Indiana law firm accused of refusing to rehire a staff lawyer who served in Iraq has agreed to pay $40,000 to resolve a suit filed by the Justice Department.
The general counsel of Hertz Global Holdings Inc. has filed a suit claiming a research firm defamed the auto rental company by issuing pessimistic statements about Hertz’s financial condition.
After initial protests over the what some see as the unfairness of the arrest last week of fugitive film director Roman Polanski in a decades-old California…
Unhappy with his counsel’s legal strategy in a first-degree murder trial in Washington state, the defendant apparently decided to seek a mistrial using his own tactics.
The family of an autistic teen who died in his sleep of ketamine and Fentanyl intoxication after his mother applied a topical painkiller patch prescribed after dental work has filed…
A New York City man facing robbery charges escaped from the 12th floor of a Manhattan courthouse during a pretrial hearing today by simply walking out, surveillance footage shows.
A Florida lawyer has accused the local sheriff’s office of an unethical and potentially criminal practice of secretly recording—and forwarding to its own legal counsel for review—jailhouse phone calls made…
A former consumer reporter for the Hartford Courant claims in a lawsuit that his free speech rights were violated when his job was eliminated before he could write a critical…
A former Paul Hastings associate who pleaded guilty to securities fraud and conspiracy in a $4.8 million insider trading scheme won’t have to go to jail.
A Texas lawyer briefly jailed for contempt after he refused to testify against his client has been acquitted under an agreement approved by a judge on Tuesday.
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