Amidst a national debate over the extent to which courts and lawmakers need to put the brakes on lenders who reportedly may have filed thousands of defective mortgage foreclosure cases,…
A lawyer for the group that successfully challenged the U.S. military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gay and lesbian troops tells the Associated Press that the…
A proposal to decriminalize private use of small amounts of marijuana in California is getting the backing from the dean of the University of California’s law school at Irvine and…
Developing: Perhaps 100 people have been arrested in California, Georgia, Ohio, New Mexico and New York, in a record-breaking Medicare fraud case that allegedly involved $100 million in bogus billings…
An amended lawsuit claims Facebook disclosed users’ personal information to advertisers when it began embedding additional data in website addresses in February.
The suit by two Facebook users claims advertisers…
A transgender woman is suing the Ladies Professional Golf Association and a group sponsoring a long-drive competition because of their requirement that women competitors be “female at birth.”
A federal judge in Southern California issued an injunction today that bans the U.S. military from enforcing its 17-year-old “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy concerning gay and lesbian service members…
Accused of running her courtroom one day last year in a manner intended to maximize her calendar’s appeal to the producers of a potential Judge Judy-like show, a California jurist…
A 61-year-old lawyer facing a first-degree murder charge in a fatal identity theft scam allegedly orchestrated by a client admittedly impersonated the victim, in order to help the perpetrators gain…
Updated: Saying that consumers got little or nothing for hefty upfront fees and put their homes at greater risk of foreclosure by listening to purported home-rescue schemes marketed by two…
The State of California—from its judges to the bar association—does not take prosecutorial misconduct seriously, and the result is that an increasing number of innocent people have been sent to…
John McTiernan, who directed Die Hard and The Hunt for Red October, among other well-known movies, has been sentenced to 12 months for his peripheral role in a celebrity wiretap…
By placing her physical condition at issue in a tort claim over a fall from an office chair at work, a woman effectively waived any expectation of privacy in her…
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