Prosecutors overreached when they charged a prominent New Jersey criminal defense lawyer in a federal racketeering case, relying on unsubstantiated hearsay accusations to try to persuade a judge he is…
Embattled New Jersey criminal defense lawyer Paul Bergrin reportedly worked on at least eight state Superior Court cases in which witnesses were either murdered or allegedly paid or coached to…
A former state and federal prosecutor who is now a prominent criminal defense lawyer in Newark, N.J., has been indicted in a racketeering case. It includes allegations that he conspired…
A three-judge panel ruled unanimously Tuesday that Philadelphia’s interest in “religious neutrality” in its police force overrode the bid of Officer Kimberlie Webb, a Muslim, to wear her headscarf while…
A Pennsylvania woman criminally charged with making a false police report of being raped at gunpoint before authorities realized she was, in fact, telling the truth has lost her attempt…
Apparently unhappy about his lawyer’s handling of a federal national-origin discrimination case in which he won an $80,000 jury verdict on a retaliation count, a tenured assistant professor of economics…
A federal appeals court has ruled a female partner doesn’t have to arbitrate her sexual discrimination claim against Dickie McCamey & Chilcote, despite an arbitration clause in the firm’s bylaws.
A Pennsylvania prosecutor’s aggressive approach to so-called teenage sexting of explicit messages on cell phones has put him on the American Civil Liberties Union’s litigation list.
In an apparent expansion of an ongoing probe into judicial corruption in Pennsylvania, a federal grand jury in Scranton is now hearing testimony about uninsured and underinsured motorist arbitrations in…
In the latest developments in an expanding scandal over corruption in the Luzerne County, Pa., court system, a third judge there is now on the hot seat.
A federal judge in Erie, Pa., today sentenced a retired state court judge to nearly four years in prison for falsely claiming to have suffered debilitating injuries in a 2001…
A federal appeals court has refused to approve a lump-sum deal that cost a bombing victim around $300,000 because the Houston settlement company that struck the agreement evaded a Pennsylvania…
In a hearing today, a federal bankruptcy court judge in Wilmington, Del., said he won’t OK a top $1,100 hourly fee requested by Sidley Austin in a newspaper company’s case.
The administrator of a troubled Pennsylvania court that has recently seen two top judges plead guilty to criminal charges himself pleaded guilty today in federal court in Scranton to embezzling…
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