Kenneth Loewinger has written a treatise on landlord-tenant law in Washington, D.C., that is relied on by judges. But the veteran practitioner, who has been a lawyer since 1971, was…
Joining in a call by private defense lawyers representing Zhenli Ye Gon to dismiss the federal drug conspiracy indictment against him with prejudice, two Washington, D.C., public defender agencies say…
It appears that much-publicized litigation brought by an administrative law judge in Washington, D.C., over a dry cleaner’s alleged loss of his suit trousers and the jurist’s subsequent loss of…
A high-profile former staff lawyer at Covington & Burling who accused the law firm of discrimination is back in the ballgame again with a federal lawsuit she filed against the…
A federal judge is mulling possible sanctions for multiple Central Intelligence Agency lawyers and two other CIA employees including a former director after finding that the agency committed fraud while…
For the second time in less than three months, Judge Emmett Sullivan offered blistering comments from the bench yesterday castigating the U.S. Department of Justice concerning its compliance with ethical…
Finding that a captured videotape of Abd Al Rahim Abdul Rassak shows him being tortured by al-Qaida as a suspected American spy, a federal judge has rejected as ridiculous a…
In a filing on behalf of three high-level government officials—including President Barack Obama—who are named as defendants, the U.S. Department of Justice seeks to dismiss a federal lawsuit by descendants…
Updated: Citing “evidentiary concerns,” the U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to dismiss without prejudice a drug conspiracy case against a Chinese-born Mexican millionaire, saying that Zhenli Ye Gon should…
Somehow, attorney Robert Wone was murdered in the upscale Washington, D.C., townhome where he was visiting friends one sweltering summer night in 2006.
Siding with the media and lawyers representing detainees at the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., today gave the government a July 29 deadline.…
A federal district judge in Washington, D.C., has appointed a guardian to oversee a plaintiff’s interests in a more than decade-old copyright case, due to what he has described as…
A discrimination suit filed earlier this year by a high-profile former staff attorney against Covington & Burling and five current or former lawyers there has been dismissed.
An art dealer who graduated from Stanford Law School reportedly tried to bully a well-known art auction house into paying $168,000 to settle a baseless lawsuit.
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