A federal judge in Newark, N.J., has ruled that a laptop confiscated by police during an internal affairs investigation doesn’t need to be returned to the officer.
Just in time for Father’s Day this weekend, a San Diego lawyer and the Oakland A’s have settled a controversial class-action lawsuit over a Mother’s Day giveaway in 2004.
A divided Michigan Supreme Court has approved a much-awaited rule of evidence revision that delineates the power of a courtroom judge to determine witness attire.
The Georgia Supreme Court has overturned a divorce court order barring a father’s three youngest children from having contact with his gay and lesbian friends.
What municipal officials in Lakemoor, Ill., consider trash is personal art as far as Tina Asmus is concerned. And she’s hired a lawyer to make a federal case out of…
The 88-year-old suspect in the fatal shooting of a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum first attracted the attention of the Southern Poverty Law Center about three decades ago.
A university art professor won an $8,000 settlement from the city of Snohomish, Wash., over her arrest in 2007 for snapping photos of power lines there.
Following news Friday that the U.S. Department of Justice would investigate the slaying of a well-known physician who performed late-term abortions in Wichita, Kan., a famous U.S. Supreme Court case…
In the latest prosecutorial embarrassment for the U.S. Department of Justice, the DOJ has admitted it may have fouled up concerning the required pre-trial provision of exculpatory evidence in the…
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