Despite an apparent pleading error by the appellants’ counsel, a federal appeals court today reversed the federal program bribery convictions of two Mississippi judges and a trial lawyer. This is…
Although most senior lawyers at the now-defunct Heller Ehrman firm apparently have yet to agree to a payout to the bankrupt law firm’s creditors, a group of 62 primarily junior…
An Ohio judge’s e-mails to a newspaper about an alleged serial murderer whose case he was later assigned have reportedly led him to step down from the upcoming trial.
After an investigation into the sudden death last month of a 37-year-old Russian lawyer jailed on tax evasion charges after pointing the finger at claimed government corruption, the Kremlin has…
A Georgia judge this morning found a 12-year-old boy not guilty of murdering his baby cousin, saying that the defendant hadn’t intended to kill the five-week-old girl.
Embarrassed by London’s reputation as a libel mecca that draws litigation from purportedly aggrieved claimants from around the world, British lawmakers appear poised to make changes to the 19th-century libel…
After yesterday’s announcement of felony charges against the presiding criminal court judge in Maricopa County, some lawyers in Arizona are questioning the ethics of a county attorney involved in bringing…
A hardworking financial analyst for the University of Idaho routinely chugged coffee and energy drinks and may have been under the influence of “caffeine psychosis” during an erratic-driving incident that…
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., held the U.S. Department of Defense in civil contempt of court today for disobeying a prior court order that required “the appropriate agency” to…
Concerning that a client’s corpse is “decomposing by the minute,” a cryogenics company today asked a Florida judge to stop a planned autopsy to determine why a 48-year-old Navy veteran…
Because he earlier accepted $2 million from the government for being mistakenly arrested in an international terrorism case and is barred by the terms of the settlement from seeking new…
A jury this week took only 15 minutes to convict a 25-year-old man of animal cruelty for running over a mother duck, in front of her 12 ducklings, in a…
A second attorney who formerly worked at Ropes & Gray has been criminally charged in a federal case related to the alleged Galleon Group insider-trading scheme.
Nearly 18 months ago, Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry Samueli pleaded guilty to a felony charge of lying to securities regulators about his role in an alleged company stock options backdating…
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