Testifying in a co-defendant’s criminal trial earlier this year after he himself accepted a plea bargain, a Florida attorney said he didn’t realize that he was doing anything wrong as…
After days of deliberation, a federal jury in the Southern District of Florida returned a verdict on Thursday in a tax evasion case against Michigan attorney Alan Miller. But it…
A federal appeals court has rejected an appeal by a Georgia death-row inmate who claims the Eighth Amendment bars his execution because he is innocent.
A Georgia lawyer accused of masterminding a $28 million real estate Ponzi scheme that duped 125 investors was charged today with one count of wire fraud in a case that…
A consumer group has sued the Florida Bar on behalf of an attorney who was told client testimonials on a third-party website violated the state’s lawyer advertising rules.
A Florida accountant is now front-and-center in an ongoing United States probe of perhaps tens of thousands of individuals who may have used secret accounts at the Swiss-based UBS bank…
More than 100 female prison workers have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Florida Department of Corrections contending that they were routinely sexually harassed by inmates.
An investor who says he lost $1.85 million in a claimed $397 million fraud allegedly orchestrated by Arthur Nadel is accusing an international law firm of having helped prepare documents…
When U.S. District Judge William Zloch recently learned last week that a juror in a big federal drug trial in Florida had been doing Internet research, in violation of the…
Another federal appeals court has been heard from in an ongoing controversy over the constitutionality of crime registries, weighing in on the side of the proponents.
The chief of staff for Alabama’s state attorney general says his boss is “shocked” by news that the attorney general’s office is being federally investigated.
Sometimes a reasonable attorney fee is no attorney fee, a federal judge said when attorney Rudy Barack sought attorney fees after winning $3,500 for a paralegal seeking overtime pay from…
Had a Florida bait and tackle shop covered up an offending fish painting with the U.S. flag, it could have avoided additional tickets under the Clearwater municipal sign ordinance.
Updated: At first, it was a painting of game fish on an exterior wall of a Florida bait and tackle shop that drew adverse attention from sign code enforcement…
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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