Asked to make a recommendation to the state’s top court about allegations that two corrupt judges might have influenced the result of a $3.5 million libel verdict against a Pennsylvania…
In arguments today before Nevada’s top court, a lawyer for O.J. Simpson and a co-defendant rested their respective cases on a similar basis—his notoriety.
The U.S. Supreme Court in the Obama era may be more conservative than under President George W. Bush because retiring Justice David H. Souter was the only one who could…
In a move that could nearly halve the six-year prison term that former Qwest Communications chief executive Joseph Nacchio got for insider trading, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals…
Saying that an attorney’s representation of an 11-year-old client in a family law matter did not comply with court administrative and legal ethics rules, a New York appellate court fired…
A federal appeals court has ruled that a private arbitrator may not sue Stradley Ronon and one of its lawyers for allegations made in a quest to disqualify him.
The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has scheduled an en banc hearing in a case that applied the Second Amendment to the states, though neither side had…
Before a federal judge could hold a scheduled hearing on Monday, the top court in Pennsylvania has acceded to some of the demands made in an unusual federal filing by…
Daunting discovery sanctions imposed by a federal judge on defense lawyers who were, many colleagues say, simply doing their job in a medical insurance coverage case filed by a group…
A bizarre case in which two senior Pennsylvania judges in Luzerne County are accused of having profited from putting hundreds—or perhaps even thousands—of youths into juvenile detention for relatively minor…
A Michigan Supreme Court split 4-3 issued a one-sentence order allowing a woman who called 911 after being shot to sue the operator who thought the woman was making a…
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