Two Pennsylvania judges accused by federal prosecutors of accepting $2.6 million in kickbacks to jail juveniles in privately owned detention facilities are now being sued for damages.
A Pennsylvania lawyer who formerly was a co-owner of juvenile detention facilities implicated in a jail-for-pay case that has brought down two senior judges was a victim of their kickbacks…
A federal appeals court has ruled trial judges may increase awards to compensate for taxes a plaintiff will have to pay on lump-sum awards for back pay.
Because an in-house lawyer didn’t research whether a pregnant worker was covered by the Family and Medical Leave Act before her employer fired her, a federal judge has doubled a…
Accusations that two now-suspended Pennsylvania judges accepted $2.6 million in kickbacks in exchange for incarcerating juveniles at specific detention facilities have spilled over into another multimillion-dollar case.
Acting within days of news that two longtime Pennsylvania judges have agreed to plead in a case alleging that they accepted $2.6 million in exchange for jailing juveniles in specific…
Public outrage and potential litigation are being sparked by news that two longtime Pennsylvania judges have accepted a plea that includes prison time in a case alleging that they incarcerated…
Two judges in Luzerne County, Penn., have reportedly agreed to plead guilty and resign from office in an ongoing federal investigation of $2.6 million that authorities say the judges were…
A Delta Airlines flight attendant who contends she was denied opportunities to travel for free on a rival airline to her job assignments because she wasn’t dressed provocatively enough has…
A longtime Pennsylvania senator wielded his power, in part, by pressuring companies to send legal work to certain law firms, including his own, according to testimony yesterday at his federal…
It reads like a chapter from a hard-boiled detective novel: Narcotics officer Sean Devlin is working undercover in a neighborhood “tough as a three-dollar steak. Devlin knew. Five years on…
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