Mississippi plaintiffs lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs will be arraigned next week on a criminal contempt charge for failing to return documents related to State Farm’s handling of Hurricane Katrina claims.
In testimony this week before the U.S. Sentencing Commission, experts representing the American Bar Association are among the scheduled witnesses expected to call for the reduction of relatively high prison…
Federal prosecutors are investigating an oil spill last week in the San Francisco Bay, a move that could signal charges against crew members of the damaged ship that spilled 58,000…
Several people are urging Attorney General Michael Mukasey to take a look at morale problems in the office of U.S. Attorney Rachel Paulose of Minnesota.
Securities class-action lawyer William Lerach, who pleaded guilty to paying kickbacks to lead plaintiffs, takes aim at sweet deals for corporate CEOs who lose shareholder money in a commentary published…
The U.S. Sentencing Commission reportedly is considering an unprecedented proposal for a mass commutation of disproportionately harsh sentences meted out in drug cases involving crack cocaine.
Inmates sentenced to life in prison are filing constitutional challenges to changes in parole procedures that subsequently made it tougher to win early release.
As the arraignment process got underway today in the first trial by a Guantanamo Bay military tribunal of a terrorism suspect, defense counsel complained that the deck was stacked against…
Following Pakistan’s suspension of the constitution, firing of numerous appellate judges and arrest of as many as 3,000 lawyers during the past week, bar associations throughout the United States and…
O.J. Simpson’s lawyer, Gabriel Falso, in a preliminary hearing yesterday zeroed in on a witness’s attempts to make money from the alleged armed robbery of sports memorabilia.
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