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…
A California lawyer known for failed “birther” litigation against President Barack Obama that resulted in a $20,000 sanction from a U.S. District Court judge in Georgia has now irritated another…
The chief federal criminal trial judge in Washington, D.C., yesterday rejected the city’s call for a new trial in a “contempt of cop” arrest case in which a jury awarded…
A federal judge imposed a gag order to prevent participants in the perjury trial of baseball pitcher Roger Clemens from talking about the Washington, D.C., case.
Despite an asserted work product privilege, DLA Piper has been ordered by a federal judge to turn over to famed pitcher Roger Clemens some of its investigative material from a…
A controversial tactic of suing, or threatening to sue, en masse, thousands of individuals who have allegedly violated the law by illegally downloading copyrighted material is now focusing on a…
The lying and obstruction convictions of David Safavian, a former White House procurement official involved in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, were upheld today by the U.S. Circuit Court of…
A 64-year-old criminal defense attorney in Washington, D.C., has been accused, along with two private investigators, of fabricating evidence in an effort to help a client win an acquittal in…
A federal appeals court has reinstated the manslaughter indictments of four former Blackwater security guards accused of firing on unarmed Iraqi civilians and killing 17 people in September 2007.
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