The House of Representatives voted 412-0 today to approve the first of four articles of impeachment against New Orleans District Judge Thomas Porteous.
A retired New Orleans police officer pleaded guilty today to conspiring to obstruct justice concerning a cover-up of the shooting deaths of two unarmed civilians on the city’s Danziger Bridge…
After waiting more than four years for a ruling in an interlocutory appeal before the Texas Supreme Court, the plaintiffs in a class action case have made a federal case…
Staying a federal district court’s order that a renowned insurance company must pay for R. Allen Stanford’s defense in a criminal case, a federal appeals court today scheduled oral arguments…
Two executives of the Hartford insurance company pleaded guilty today in federal court in Houston in a conspiracy case concerning the millions of dollars worth of kickbacks they allegedly received…
A suspended lawyer who got widespread publicity for refusing to abandon his home during Hurricane Katrina is back in the news, this time for an alleged e-mail threat to a…
Accused of operating a $7 billion Ponzi scheme under the guise of running his Texas-based investment company, billionaire R. Allen Stanford has been fighting to force renowned insurer Lloyd’s of…
Granting a motion filed by insurer Lloyd’s of London, a federal judge in Dallas today found billionaire and accused swindler R. Allen Stanford and his counsel in contempt.
Despite an apparent pleading error by the appellants’ counsel, a federal appeals court today reversed the federal program bribery convictions of two Mississippi judges and a trial lawyer. This is…
A federal judge has agreed that billionaire Mark Cuban, who owns the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, can proceed with discovery in his effort to force the feds to pay his…
A ruling blaming the federal government for flooding in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina could lead to a flood of lawsuits and affect funding for a coastal restoration project.
A federal judge in Louisiana racked up $150,000 in credit card debt, largely to cover his gambling, as he routinely solicited cash and gifts from lawyers appearing before him, witnesses…
Contending that a top Texas appellate judge misled a federal appeals court that dismissed a wrongful death claim by the wife and daughter of an executed inmate, a civil rights…
A justice of the peace in Louisiana who originally defended his views that an interracial couple shouldn’t marry and refused calls to resign reversed course today and stepped down.
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