A Minnesota mother who allegedly fled last week with her 13-year-old son after a state-court judge said he must have potentially life-saving chemotherapy for a highly treatable form of cancer…
A West Virginia lawyer has surrendered her license to practice after state bar authorities accused her of “settling” two bogus cases that she falsely claimed to have filed on behalf…
After three current and former Chicago police detectives took the Fifth rather than testify in a post-conviction case concerning their alleged abuse of a capital murder suspect nearly 20 years…
A federal judge in South Carolina has granted an injunction sought by Craigslist Inc. in a declaratory judgment action against the state’s attorney general.
A lawsuit filed by the son of former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani over his dismissal from Duke University’s varsity golf team last year is in the rough, reports the…
Five lawyers who helped craft a controversial $8.4 million settlement by the city of Detroit that papered over then-mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s perjury in police whistle-blower litigation are now facing ethics…
A $150,000 shopping spree at Neiman Marcus, Victoria’s Secret and other well-known department stores by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her family was a legal use of political funds, the…
A scheduled sentencing today has been postponed for a 50-year-old Missouri mom convicted of violating a federal statute in an unusual cyberbullying case.
A group of nuns covered almost from head to toe in black-and-gray habits came to the Kane County Courthouse in suburban Chicago today to attend a criminal trial concerning a…
A clothing company known for its racy advertising and aggressive litigation tactics has agreed to settle for $5 million a lawsuit by Woody Allen over its alleged unauthorized use of…
In an unusual case involving a colleague, a divided Washington Supreme Court today upheld an appellate decision that denied reimbursement for legal defense fees to Justice Richard Sanders.
He’s the CEO of Credit Suisse Group AG. So investment banker Brady Dougan should have understood the terms of a divorce settlement with his ex-wife, a Connecticut appeals court says.
Intentionally scraping a “metal object” along the passenger side of a U.S. Marine Corps sergeant’s BMW, in addition to claimed client neglect, could result in a one-year suspension for a…
Updated: After their recent conviction in a criminal copyright prosecution in Sweden, owners of a well-known file-sharing website have reportedly come up with a plan to pay back a law…
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