Some 100 lawsuits have been filed against Toyota Motor Corp. throughout the United States, blaming the automaker for alleged injuries ranging from fatal accidents to diminished vehicle value after widespread…
Updated: A 28-year-old computer mastermind who last year pleaded guilty in a case involving the theft of millions of credit and debit card numbers from retailers and a major credit…
Nearly 13 years ago, Armen Yousoufian made a public records request to King County, Wash., which received a partial response. Three years later, he filed suit to obtain the rest…
A federal judge has given the green light to litigation being pursued by University of Denver law students on behalf of an inmate held in solitary confinement since 1983.
A lawsuit filed by a top genetics research laboratory claims one of its patent applications was denied because a partner at Ropes & Gray lifted language from a patent obtained…
The U.S. Supreme Court stayed the execution of Texas death row inmate Hank Skinner on Wednesday evening, just one hour before he was scheduled to be executed.
A South Carolina lawyer accused of secretly staging a courtroom stunt to demonstrate an alleged design flaw in a Kia seat belt won’t be sanctioned for his actions.
After more than three years of litigation, an out-of-state law graduate has apparently tired of pursing a onetime federal class action over Wisconsin’s so-called diploma privilege, under which graduates of…
After being shot at and mortared while serving in the U.S. Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps in Iraq several years ago, the daily difficulties of fighting for consumer justice back…
The Arizona Supreme Court has appointed the head of the Colorado Supreme Court’s attorney discipline office to oversee an investigation of ethics charges against the Maricopa, Ariz., county attorney, the…
A California judge has ordered the San Francisco police crime lab to turn over for a relevance review some 1,100 pages of documents related to an investigation of a veteran…
In a decision decried by some observers as supporting a political regime that threatens judicial independence, the top court in South Carolina has upheld a legislative screening panel’s determination booting…
A lawyer representing the family of a slain exotic dancer in a suit against the city of Detroit has told police that a lawyer for the city threatened him.
A Texas death row inmate is seeking an 11th-hour reprieve from the governor or the U.S. Supreme Court so he can get DNA tests that had been shunned by his…
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