A 23-year-old beautician with no legal training who made headlines by defeating a big British property developer in a High Court case earlier this month is now headed to law…
An insurance company that not only refused its contractual duty to defend a policyholder but appealed a trial court’s ruling that the duty to defend was not a close case…
A little-noticed opinion by a New York judge earlier this month didn’t simply free Fernando Bermudez after 18 years in prison in a murder case. It found that…
A Kentucky appeals court cut from $1 million to $400,000 a punitive damages award to a McDonald’s manager who was fired and charged with a crime after she says she…
A California judge abused his discretion by effectively denying a tax attorney who took the Fifth during discovery in a civil case brought by a former client the opportunity to…
For the third time, the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and restored the death penalty for a man convicted of the…
Reversing the drunken-driving conviction of a woman who wasn’t allowed to argue at trial that she had to flee a dangerous bar fight, the Montana Supreme Court has ruled that…
A juror caused consternation by sending a note to the judge in a fatal New York child-abuse case, asking for the name and number of the “cutie” assistant district attorney–and…
Although every situation must be considered based on its own individual facts, at least one retired former judge in Massachusetts will still be expected to continue paying his wife $42,000…
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…
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