In a Friday ruling, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld trial-court sanctions imposed on a former corporate officer and senior engineer for filing a frivolous False Claims Act…
Suspended from practice in 2004 over his role in a kickback scheme that put a Congressman for whom he had worked behind bars, an Ohio lawyer again skirted the law.…
As Detroit’s record-breaking municipal bankruptcy case unfolded and public officials testified, citizens obviously had an interest in hearing what they had to say in court.
An en banc federal appeals court has ruled that Ford Motor Co. was not required to offer a telecommuting option to a worker with irritable bowel syndrome and whose job…
A federal court filing by a hospital litigating a failed management agreement with another medical facility says its former lawyer was secretly communicating with the opposing party during negotiations of…
The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned an appeals court decision granting habeas relief to a felony murder defendant because his lawyer was absent for 10 minutes during trial testimony.
Federal prosecutors are seeking a stiff sentence for a Palestinian law graduate in her late sixties who left out information about a 1970 bombing-related conviction in Israel when she applied…
A federal appeals court has once again reversed a one-day sentence for possession of child pornography, but this time the resentencing will be handled by a different judge.
A federal judge in Cleveland asked jurors for their opinions before he sentenced a child porn defendant to only five years in prison on Tuesday, rejecting the prosecutor’s recommendation for…
An appellate court upheld a $3.5 million verdict, as well as sanctions, against a former assistant attorney general in Michigan who became notorious for using social media to attack the…
A courthouse cellphone spat prior to a bankruptcy meeting led to a federal prison sentence of more than two years last week for a Michigan man who was growing marijuana…
The nation’s top court has declined to review a federal appeals court decision that a Detroit judge was immune from suit even though he had an affair with a woman…
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether states can prohibit same-sex marriage without violating the constitutional rights of gays and lesbians.
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