In the latest development in an escalating war between celebrities and paparazzi, rap artist and producer Kanye West and his road manager have been criminally charged over an incident at…
Married since 2002 to George David, who is now chairman of the board of United Technologies Corp., Swedish countess Marie Douglas-David is entitled to a $43 million divorce settlement under…
Seeking to reduce his divorce settlement in a state that still attributes fault between spouses in divorces, a New York lawyer tried to get “liberal discovery” concerning his claim that…
A lawyer who sued his sister for defamation after she filed three disciplinary complaints against him has received a reprimand from the Louisiana Supreme Court.
A new indictment against New York lawyer Marc Dreier now alleges he sold $700 million in phony promissory notes to investors, an amount $300 million higher Mar 18, 2009 11:15 AM CDT
It appears unlikely that an effort to introduce a new No-Lie MRI test as evidence in a California juvenile sex-abuse case will succeed: To be accepted as evidence, such tests…
As one member called a Louisiana doctor who at one point was accused of criminally euthanizing patients in her care a hero, a panel today recommended that the state should…
When U.S. District Judge William Zloch recently learned last week that a juror in a big federal drug trial in Florida had been doing Internet research, in violation of the…
The judge overseeing the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy no longer faces misdemeanor charges stemming from accusations that he slapped his wife during a quarrel.
Prosecutors sought dismissal of charges yesterday against…
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