Legal observers are agog over two very different versions of a ruling in a habeas corpus case ordering the release of a Guantanamo Bay detainee who was held nearly eight…
Six notaries who worked for two Maryland law firms have lost their commissions as an apparent result of a continuing probe into who signed documents in mortgage foreclosure cases, although…
A judge has found a Florida law firm in “deliberate, willful and flagrant” contempt and fined it $49,000 for setting—and then missing—two foreclosure hearings.
Upping the ante in a mortgage foreclosure mess that already reportedly has prompted the attorney general’s office in six or more states to initiate probes of various lenders, an Ohio…
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has sold his Pfizer stock, allowing him to participate in cases involving allegations of drug overcharges and vaccine injuries.
Conservative politicians eager to see judges strike down the new health care law and stop embryonic stem cell research are expressing a newfound appreciation for the dry legal doctrine of…
A Maryland lawyer has filed a $200,000 sex bias suit against a nail salon, claiming the establishment charged him $4 more for a manicure and pedicure than his date.
One of the nation’s largest home mortgage servicers has temporarily halted foreclosures, eviction lockouts, cash-for-keys transactions and sales of foreclosed homes in 23 states, including Florida, Illinois, New York, Ohio…
Arent Fox doesn’t have any direct role in a $20 million wrongful death lawsuit filed against former partner Joseph Price by the widow of an attorney found slain at the…
In what was described as an “overwhelming” vote, the Judicial Conference of the United States announced today that it has agreed to allow cameras in civil matters in the federal…
A $11 million libel victory scored by a schoolteacher who allegedly was falsely accused online of both an affair with a football player and having two venereal diseases may not…
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