Jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford and three of his company’s former executives have racked up millions in legal bills as they defend themselves against accusations that they participated in…
A federal judge in Hawaii has given a green light to part of a pro se plaintiff’s lawsuit contending that he wasted some 20,000 hours playing Lineage II between 2004…
Allegedly rebuked and ordered to leave a New York City restaurant for breastfeeding her baby in public, a mother has sued, contending that she is now too traumatized to breastfeed…
Several business groups are asking the Nevada Supreme Court to reconsider a $30 million verdict against Goodyear issued after a judge struck its defenses in a rollover case because of…
A federal judge in California has ruled that Wells Fargo must repay $203 million in excessive debit-card overdraft fees to customers who were charged, without adequate disclosure, in a manner…
A federal panel of judges has decided that litigation concerning the massive undersea BP PLC oil spill that began in April will be heard by a federal judge in New…
When dealing with a sexual harassment suit, an executive of a video game giant allegedly said he wanted to spend to defend rather than settle with the plaintiff for $200,000…
In the aftermath of the deadliest workplace shooting since 2009, shocked onlookers are wondering why and what, if anything, could have been done to prevent the rampage this morning by…
As the feds prepare to step up enforcement against employers that violate the rules concerning unpaid internships, employers—including law firms—can help demonstrate their compliance by using a written internship agreement,…
A lawyer for billionaire brothers Samuel and Charles Wyly has been named, along with the two Wylys and a stockbroker, in an alleged $550 million insider-trading fraud.
Freed today from a federal prison in Florida, onetime media mogul Conrad Black is seemingly potentially on track for a possible reversal of his fraud and obstruction of justice convictions.
Finding that a law firm made a bad-faith involuntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition in an effort to force an ex-client to abandon meritorious counterclaims in a fee-dispute case, a federal…
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