An El Paso, Texas, lawyer was arrested Friday at a local restaurant and jailed, pending a Thursday detention hearing, on a sealed federal indictment that federal officials say charges him…
A federal appeals court has revived a Texas attorney’s suit against the state, over an agency’s demand that he stop using the words “Texas” and “Workers’ Comp” in the domain…
A federal law that prohibits licensed firearm dealers from selling guns to people under the age of 21 was upheld Thursday in the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of…
A federal appeals court has decided not to be too hasty in a suit challenging Louisiana regulations granting funeral homes in the state the exclusive right to sell caskets.
A jury trial is beginning this week for a Texas lawyer seeking $25 million in a tortious interference suit against an insurance company with which he formerly had dealings while…
Two Lafayette, La., lawyers are among nine individuals and one business defendant accused in a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday of operating a multistate synthetic marijuana manufacturing and distribution network that…
In a decision hailed as a victory by open government advocates, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld Texas’ open meetings law and the use of criminal penalties…
Sentenced last month to 63 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to a fraud involving the Ysleta Independent School District while he working for a health care provider, a…
A Texas man allegedly involved in a cross-border marijuana-smuggling scheme that resulted in Mexican criminal charges against several upstanding drivers whose vehicles were used without their knowledge to smuggle the…
A Texas lawyer accused of stealing some $2.3 million from 49 disabled veterans whose finances he handled, has taken a plea as a trial was about to begin in federal…
For the second time in two years, a convicted Texas triple murderer has been given a last-minute reprieve by the U.S. Supreme Court on the day he was scheduled to…
A federal appeals court has refused to vacate the 2008 guilty plea of David Zachary Scruggs, son of disgraced former plaintiffs lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, who was implicated in a…
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the sentences of two Mississippi judges and a former lawyer who prosecutors said backed loans for the judges in exchange for…
An impasse between the Army psychiatrist facing capital charges in a fatal 2009 shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, and the military judge who will preside over his court-martial has…
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