A Missouri lawyer accused of wielding a power of attorney as a lethal weapon in the murder of her father has sidestepped a second trial over his slaying.
A Florida dominatrix was within the bounds of legality when she advertised her availability to provide physical punishment and “financial slavery,” a lawyer for Alex Abrams says.
A lawsuit filed on behalf of two children in Kentucky claims a sheriff’s deputy handcuffed them in a painful position for misbehavior at school, violating their constitutional rights and the…
Over some opposition, the ABA’s House of Delegates passed a resolution Monday urging lawyer licensing entities to focus on behavior rather than diagnoses when asking about mental health.
In the initial phase of a post-conviction sentencing hearing, the same Colorado jury that found James Holmes guilty last week of shooting 12 people to death at a Batman movie…
An administrative law judge has slapped the California subsidiary of Uber with a $7.3 million fine for withholding information requested by state regulators, the Associated Press reports.
A client of a California law firm says insurers hacked into tens of thousands of confidential client files as part of a nationwide scheme to get an advantage in worker’s…
A former employee who claimed disability discrimination by Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice won’t be able to pursue her case, according to a federal appeals court.
A homeless deaf man spent six weeks in prison last year before pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of theft over an iPad that reportedly had not, in fact, been…
A continuing care facility in Virginia has resolved a Justice Department lawsuit claiming the facility discriminated on the basis of disability when it barred some commingling of independent living residents…
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