Updated: The Department of Justice is trying to get an unprecedented federal court order requiring a Switzerland bank to turn over the names of wealthy U.S. residents who maintained secret…
A 1986 lawsuit by New York City alleging falsification of evidence by attorneys at what was once a top personal injury law firm there isn’t yet completely resolved. The accused…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that collection companies can sue on behalf of pay phone providers disputing charges by long-distance companies, even though the collection companies had promised…
The Securities and Exchange Commission thought Donald Lines had been served with witness subpoenas, since a process server said he had. But Lines said he wasn’t, and the server, Boston-based…
A Manhattan judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a former gossip columnist for the New York Post that alleged Hillary and Bill Clinton conspired to ruin his reputation.
A special prosecutor has been appointed to pursue a sanctions case against two plaintiffs lawyers in connection with misstatements made in a toxic-tort case.
The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that state courts must enforce a child custody order issued by a Vermont court in the dissolution of a same-sex civil union.
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