A federal appeals court has ruled trial judges may increase awards to compensate for taxes a plaintiff will have to pay on lump-sum awards for back pay.
Over the past three years, Jonathan Lee Riches has filed over 1,000 lawsuits. Among the defendants were former President George W. Bush, pop singer Britney Spears and celebrity home decorator…
Because an in-house lawyer didn’t research whether a pregnant worker was covered by the Family and Medical Leave Act before her employer fired her, a federal judge has doubled a…
An insurance company that had refused to pay out on a $10 million life policy after actor Heath Ledger’s death from a drug overdose, contending that it might have been…
Accusations that two now-suspended Pennsylvania judges accepted $2.6 million in kickbacks in exchange for incarcerating juveniles at specific detention facilities have spilled over into another multimillion-dollar case.
News that a drunken-driving case against a Texas judge may have been derailed because of a defective search warrant has irked a number of observers, including a writer for a…
After repeated instances of police allegedly lying in court to obtain convictions, some observers would like to see stricter preventative measures. In addition to videotaping searches, some have even suggested…
Acting within days of news that two longtime Pennsylvania judges have agreed to plead in a case alleging that they accepted $2.6 million in exchange for jailing juveniles in specific…
A New York lawyer has been disqualified from a matrimonial case and will have to pay as much as $42,500 for depositing into his escrow account and then evenly splitting…
In a U.S. District Court decision trumpeted by a press release (PDF) for the winning law firm as “a seismic ruling for the accounting profession,” a federal judge has…
Public outrage and potential litigation are being sparked by news that two longtime Pennsylvania judges have accepted a plea that includes prison time in a case alleging that they incarcerated…
A Stanford Law School graduate who reportedly pursued a lucrative nonlegal (and illegal) career to help cover the cost of her student loans has avoided prison but will serve a…
Halliburton has agreed to pay $559 million to settle charges that its former KBR Inc. unit bribed Nigerian officials during the building of a gas plant.
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