Jurors in a medical malpractice case against a prominent Washington state physician accused of abusing his minor patients weren’t told at trial about an important issue concerning the plaintiffs’ damages.…
Updated: A group of current and former journalists at the Los Angeles Times, including former legal writer Henry Weinstein, have filed suit against billionaire Sam Zell challenging…
A New York judge has sided with Nixon Peabody in a lawsuit brought by a European law firm over the planned defection of a dozen or so non-equity partners in…
Tallie Gainer III didn’t have any criminal record. A college graduate, a youth pastor and a happily married father of four children, he wasn’t a likely suspect in a bad-check…
A lawyer has been fined $500 for filing a frivolous lawsuit on behalf of a New York restaurateur who claimed a model damaged the limited edition designer umbrella he loaned…
A 10-year-old lawsuit filed by Missouri hospitals against cigarette makers seeking $1 billion for the cost of treating tobacco-related illnesses has been stalled in discovery.
Amidst conflicting accounts of what may have caused a head-on train collision in suburban Los Angeles that killed 25 and injured more than 130 others on Friday, two teens told…
A once-prominent California lawyer who resigned his bar membership earlier this year rather than face disciplinary charges for allegedly embezzling $1 million from clients has been shot and killed in…
The makers of Borat didn’t deceive a driving instructor and two etiquette teachers into appearing in the goofy comedy, a federal judge in New York has ruled.
Updated: The civil justice system in the United States is so bogged down in a “morass” of e-discovery that it is often too expensive for litigants to take their cases…
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