A husband and wife pleaded guilty today in a California court concerning the 1991 abduction of 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was allegedly held captive at their home for 18…
A federal judge in Tennessee has ordered attorneys involved in a sex-trafficking case not to listen to recordings of almost 300 phone calls between Bell Tennent & Frogge and the…
Updated: A onetime Pentagon worker and her lawyer who alleged in a suit that the Sept. 11 attacks were arranged or allowed by U.S. leaders could face sanctions as a…
A federal judge in Manhattan doesn’t want the last Sept. 11 wrongful death trial to drag out for too long, so he is placing strict time limits on the lawyers.
Finding that the Florida attorney general isn’t authorized to regulate a law firm under the state’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, a state appeals court has nixed an effort…
After news yesterday that hackers may have obtained personal information, including credit card numbers, of up to 75 million Sony PlayStation Network customers comes news today of the first litigation…
A Florida lawyer known for his work on drunken-driving cases has sued a Miami strip club alleging that it charged nearly $19,000 on his credit card in November 2010 when…
A New Jersey mother says in a lawsuit that she had to explain the facts of life to her 6-year-old daughter after a stock photo of the girl appeared on…
Litigation over the National Football League lockout is headed to the conservative-leaning 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but the experts say that doesn’t necessarily mean an NFL victory.
An unidentified law student who sued his parents for a $588-a-month stipend after they cut off his allowance has been ordered by a family court judge in Malaga, Spain, to…
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