Siding with death-row inmates in Arizona, California, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ruled that the Food and Drug Administration acted in a manner…
In a more than 500-page report filed Thursday in federal court in Washington, D.C., a court-appointed lawyer tasked with investigating the failed federal prosecution of the late U.S. Sen. Ted…
A lawyer who filed suit in Washington, D.C., seeking relief from a rule that requires officials at the Guantanamo Bay military prison to review attorney-client mail, is at least the…
Six doctors and scientists have sued the Food and Drug Administration after discovering that the agency snooped into their personal Gmail accounts, which the staffers accessed from their government computers.
In a brief filed this week with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, a well-known law firm accuses its opposing counsel and a major corporation of using…
In what may be the first such case ever brought, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed suit against a securities industry insurance fund, seeking to force it to…
A Washington, D.C., lawyer has been accused by the feds of helping a convicted felon bilk 13 would-be investors of $2.1 million in an alleged scheme that used her status…
Nixing, at least for now, new Food and Drug Administration rules that would have required tobacco companies to put graphic warning labels prominently on cigarette packages, a federal judge in…
A Washington, D.C., lawyer has been censured for having “intimate contact” one night with Detroit’s then-mayor while she was serving as independent police monitor for the city.
A former White House aide in the administration of President George W. Bush and onetime nominee to a seat on the Richmond, Va.-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has…
A well-known Washington, D.C., lawyer whose practice combines litigation and media relations work on behalf of clients has been sued by a major corporation for defamation, along with other defendants…
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