Jurors in Los Angeles began deliberations yesterday in the prosecution of private eye Anthony Pellicano, accused of illegally gathering information and wiretapping celebrities…
Federal prosecutors in Boise, Idaho, filed a motion yesterday seeking to close the courtroom for a high-profile sentencing in a case that reportedly involves child sexual abuse as well as…
A Washington state man and his lawyer have been sentenced to four-year federal prison terms in a bizarre, yet sophisticated scheme to fraudulently sell the homes of judges and attorneys.
A federal appeals court has upheld a verdict by a California jury that awarded over $1 million in an employment discrimination case to a farmworker who said her supervisor repeatedly…
A busy BigLaw rainmaker who has for nearly 30 years made time to promote the rights of armed services veterans “is a big, unresponsive government agency’s worst nightmare,” a California…
Updated: Their only crime was eating salmon. So execution, at least for now, is too harsh a punishment for up to 85 sea lions scheduled for extermination this year, in…
A federal appeals court panel ruled Monday that border agents didn’t violate a traveler’s rights when they searched his laptop, finding child porn in the process.
Ten former partners of the bankrupt law firm Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and the two new firms they joined are facing lawsuits by a bankruptcy trustee.
More securities class actions, as well as increased efforts to obtain redress abroad, were predicted today by experts from the PricewaterhouseCoopers accounting firm. They also said that the growing presence…
A new federal law that requires merchants to remove from cash register receipts private information such as more than five digits of a credit card number apparently may have caught…
After a plea agreement and an apology last week by Milberg Weiss founding partner Melvyn Weiss over a scheme to pay millions of dollars in secret kickbacks to lead plaintiffs…
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