A retired former partner at a well-known business law firm with offices in Utah and Nevada has had a rough go of it after he stopped taking his medication, his…
Saying that nearly $16,000 in fines imposed on an Illinois lawyer for unethical conduct in earlier federal cases didn’t have the desired deterrent effect, a federal appeals court has now…
Seeking to save money and make it easier to monitor inmate mail, a Utah jail earlier this year started limiting mail to postcards, except for communications with lawyers.
An Oklahoma senator reportedly blocked the University of Tulsa’s law dean for a federal appellate nomination because she has a background in international law.
Rejecting a shopping mall store’s arguments that a porch-like front doorway with two steps was in compliance with disability laws because handicapped-accessible doors were right at hand, too, a federal…
The nomination of a former Kansas attorney general to a federal appeals court has been scuttled amid controversy over his stance on Obama’s health care law and an abortion clinic…
A man who made headlines in recent years ago after being criminally charged for passing himself off as a decorated American war hero reportedly went on to pretend to be…
Finding that there was no legitimate basis for a Louisiana law that makes it a crime for companies not licensed as funeral directors to sell caskets, a federal judge has…
A Colorado judge has nixed seven perjury counts against a Fort Collins police investigator blamed for the wrongful 1999 murder conviction of Timothy Masters, finding that the state had brought…
A federal judge in Tennessee has ordered attorneys involved in a sex-trafficking case not to listen to recordings of almost 300 phone calls between Bell Tennent & Frogge and the…
A former linebacker for the Denver Broncos has sued Greenberg Traurig, alleging that the law firm was getting a secret 7 percent commission for steering investors to a thoroughbred breeding-rights…
Accused by the Oklahoma Bar Association of intentional misconduct in his handling of a 1993 murder case, a former Oklahoma County prosecutor says he did nothing wrong.
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