Saying that an ongoing investigation of a hit-and-run accident involving a New Jersey criminal defense lawyer’s vehicle would be a distraction to him in a murder trial that was supposed…
Expecting a big payoff, the lead plaintiffs law firm in a massive class action against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. invested about $5 million in attorney and staff time and $2 million…
A Herndon, Va., cabdriver has been awarded $22,000 in a suit against a man who told police he couldn’t have been driving the speeding car that caused a crash because…
George Washington University law professor John Banzhaf has threatened a lawsuit over plans by Catholic University of America to bring back single-sex dorms.
Banzhaf sent an intent-to-sue notice to university…
JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay $153.6 million to settle a civil fraud suit by the Securities and Exchange Commission over the sale of mortgage securities that would benefit a…
A law graduate who says the hormones he took as part of a female-to-male sex change have put him at heightened risk of ovarian and uterine cancer is suing the…
Three inmates have filed a class action suit against two cities in Washington state, contending that excessive public defender caseloads in municipal court have deprived them and other defendants of…
In the latest chapter of the continuing saga of a once-prominent real estate lawyer and suburban New York lawmaker’s downfall, George Guldi was disbarred last week by the state Supreme…
The prosecution wasn’t happy about it. But, because no practical way could be found to try an agoraphobic who reportedly hasn’t left his home for four years, the British government…
Upholding a San Diego Superior Court dismissal of a shareholder derivative suit against a law firm, a state appeals court agreed that the litigation against the law firm, which served…
Both a lender and a developer involved in a failed New York City real estate project are pointing fingers at their respective lawyers, blaming a $70 million loan default on…
The city of Holland, Mich., and a former deputy city attorney have settled on undisclosed terms a federal lawsuit filed by a defendant in a drunken-driving case who said she…
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