After a change in dean, Harvard Law School is reportedly making it difficult for a student to continue working on a high-profile file-sharing case that she says she has “lived…
An attempt by a Boston University graduate student who is a defendant in a high-profile music downloading case to turn the tables on the Recording Industry Association of America has…
A Massachusetts lawyer prominent in the state Republican party has been sentenced to 87 months in federal prison concerning his representation of a jailed client in a federal narcotics case.
Ruling on a writ of mandamus seeking to quash a federal judge’s plan to allow a gavel-to-gavel webcast of a hearing in a hard-fought case over music downloading, the Boston-based…
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she is baffled by the controversy surrounding some justices’ reference to foreign law in their U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
It was initially U.S District Judge Nancy Gertner’s idea that a pro se defendant in a high-profile file-sharing case should seek help from a renowned Harvard Law School professor.
Yesterday the Boston Globe reported about a federal plea deal in which an alleged prostitute accused of extorting a six-figure sum from a married businessman is to get…
It’s a bad time to be a bank with any connection to the alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme that Bernard Madoff is accused of running, or any other such claimed…
The chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts has issued a 42-page ruling blasting the U.S. attorney there over an alleged pattern of violations by…
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