Children aren’t allowed to live in houses in the Lakes Homeowners Association in Pinellas County, Fla., which is designated a 55-and-older community in accord with federal fair housing law.
Nokia Oyj has sued Apple Inc.over the technology used in the company’s iPhone, contending that it infringes on 10 patents held by the world’s largest phone manufacturer.
Dimitrios Biller describes himself as an emotional guy. He says he sometimes cried for the plaintiffs who lost lawsuits he defended as an in-house lawyer for Toyota. But plaintiffs lawyers…
A top judge in the United Kingdom is calling for courts to consider whether oral testimony is becoming obsolete as the younger generation increasingly relies on the Internet to communicate.
A former deputy head of the legal department defrauded the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi out of some $12 million (7.4 million in British pounds, at the current exchange rate) by conning…
Lawyers defending five former Blackwater Worldwide contractors in an Iraq manslaughter case are calling for the U.S. government to provide the same kind of security for their work that the…
Citing two unidentified sources, the Washington Post reports that the head of the public integrity unit of the U.S. Department of Justice plans to relinquish his role…
Two excess insurers for Pepper Hamilton don’t have a duty to indemnify the law firm and a partner in a malpractice case. That’s because they didn’t disclose a known risk…
A medical malpractice lawyer at Fulbright & Jaworski wasn’t entitled to a portion of the estate of her late companion, Henry J.N. Taub, a Houston area judge has found.
A New York City court erred by requiring a transgender man to provide medical documentation before permitting him to change his name, a Manhattan state appeals court panel ruled today,…
Cocaine was so prevalent in Bernard Madoff’s office that it was once called the North Pole, according to an expanded lawsuit that alleges a culture of “sexual deviance” and drug…
A perfect storm of political unrest, generational conflict and a biased judge set the stage for a 1969 trial that is still memorable 40 years later for its drama and…
A New York judge cut former prosecutor Paul Bergrin a break today on his sentence for operating a Manhattan brothel, ending the defense lawyer’s probation in the misdemeanor case and…
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