While Delvonte Tisdale didn’t make a good decision when he reportedly stowed away in the wheel well of a USAirways plane at the Charlotte, N.C., airport, the 16-year-old high school…
A Texas lawyer who helped pass legislation to compensate exonerated inmates is accused in an ethics complaint of charging two men who collected millions of dollars under the new law…
Lee Harvey Oswald’s brother has sued a Texas funeral home and an auction house over the sale of Oswald’s casket and other items linked to the presidential assassin.
A former Wisconsin district attorney contends he is immune from a civil suit filed by a domestic abuse victim who claims his sexually suggestive texts…
As a tsunami of mortgage foreclosures and bankruptcies continues to sweep over many individuals who never thought they would ever be in this situation, a California lawyer feels his clients’…
A former police chief was acquitted today by a Springfield, Mass., jury in a high-profile criminal case brought over the death of an 8-year-old boy who accidentally killed himself in…
Apparently distraught about his divorce case, an armed man entered a South Florida courthouse this morning through an unsecured exit and demanded to speak with a judge while pointing the…
A Georgia lawyer has been accused of usury in a malpractice suit that claims he advised two clients to take out a loan at a 50 percent interest rate through…
Last year, a decision to cooperate with a filmmaker making a documentary about a $113 billion Ecuadorean environmental case cost plaintiffs’ counsel their attorney-client privilege.
A Columbia law professor isn’t concerned about recent comments by President Obama that contradict the criminal complaint filed against the suspect in the shooting death of U.S. District Judge John…
A federal judge in California with experience in death-penalty trials has been tapped to preside over the trial of the suspect in the Tucson, Ariz., shooting spree that left six…
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