Reversing a trial judge, a Washington appeals court struck down today as unconstitutional a state law permitting a juvenile accused of chronic truancy to have his or her case initially…
A former public defender in North Carolina who became a game developer for Microsoft’s Xbox division was shot and killed by her husband in a murder-suicide.
In the largest compensation claim ever paid by the Washington State Bar Association’s client protection fund as a result of misconduct by a single lawyer, clients of former attorney Barry…
Although Joe Conway Elder has dementia and some delusions, the 91-year-old is competent to stand trial in a second-degree murder case for allegedly shooting to death a staffer at the…
Washington State Supreme Court Justice Richard Sanders now admits he stood and called Attorney General Michael Mukasey a “tyrant” during a speech last week, but he says some time elapsed…
A gubernatorial candidate in Washington maintained he didn’t violate campaign finance laws during a deposition Wednesday that was marked more by the lawyers’ rancorous disagreements than revealing testimony.
A Washington judge dismissed charges this week against a lawyer who was arrested at an anti-war protest when he refused to produce identification for police to review.
Perkins Coie wooed Heller Ehrman’s entire Madison, Wis. office, including 16 intellectual property litigators and 10 staffers, with its winning bid in an auction-style process the Oct 20, 2008 8:37 PM CDT
The state of Washington plans to monitor electronically all newly released sex offenders considered potentially violent, for at least the first 30 days.
The Global Positioning System tracking bracelets that…
The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday revived a suit brought by a mother who objected to the removal of her deceased son’s brain for medical research.
It seemed like a good idea to some: Police in Seattle would wear small video cameras to record crime scenes and their interactions with suspects during arrests.
Jurors in a medical malpractice case against a prominent Washington state physician accused of abusing his minor patients weren’t told at trial about an important issue concerning the plaintiffs’ damages.…
It started out as a protest of what Jan Balogh thought were lax voter registration standards. But it turned into a drawn-out legal ordeal that finally ended this week when…
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