A federal appeals court in San Francisco has rejected an argument by the Obama administration that a lawsuit by a Muslim charity is blocked by the state secrets privilege.
Over the objections of an attorney representing U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent in a criminal case, the federal jurist hearing the case today lifted an unusual gag order that had…
A New York judge has ruled that trustees of a fund established under the will of hotel heiress Leona Helmsley have sole discretion to determine how much of her multibillion-dollar…
Five former executives and the company that employed them, W.R. Grace & Co., went on trial today in federal court in Missoula, Mont., in what observers say is the most…
Asked by a friend who is a lawyer to write a statement saying that she wasn’t drunk when she left a bar, New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Makowski reportedly…
Rejecting a disbarment recommendation, the Nevada Supreme Court has suspended for five years a 53-year-old Las Vegas attorney who admittedly stole nearly $400,000 from clients to support a gambling habit.
An Arizona boy accused of shooting his father and his father’s roommate to death when he was only 8 pleaded guilty today to one count of negligent homicide concerning the…
The State Commission on Judicial Conduct filed an ethics complaint today against the presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals concerning her controversial refusal to accept a late…
A prominent Democratic political fundraiser has been convicted by a Texas jury on 14 of the 22 counts he faced in an unusual criminal trial for allegedly practicing law when…
A South Carolina judge has ruled that Texas Hold ’em is a game of skill, but that fact doesn’t require the acquittal of five men nabbed in a poker bust.
Contending that a Swiss bank’s plan to name client names to U.S. regulators as part of a $780 million settlement of a criminal tax probe violates Switzerland law requiring secrecy,…
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