A nursing home in New York has agreed to settle a lawsuit for $750,000 that claimed a former Brooklyn judge was confined there against his will for eight months prior…
An advocacy group for the deaf sued Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Thursday over a claimed lack of closed-captioning in their online educational materials.
A former Ohio National Guardsman who served in Iraq and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and depression is appealing his October municipal-court conviction for keeping registered therapy ducks.
Can a transgendered individual sue for workplace discrimination? Yes, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said last year, and the question of whether gender identity disorder should be covered by…
A Florida drug court judge resigned on Tuesday, following a call by the state Judicial Qualifications Commission on Monday for her removal from the bench.
A suspended Georgia lawyer won a delay of a contempt hearing last week by voluntarily agreeing to a psychiatric evaluation. But Christopher Nicholson was involuntarily committed the next day by…
An embattled Detroit judge who says she has already been suspended without pay, for the third time, announced Tuesday that she will retire from the bench.
Updated: A Detroit judge has declined to attend a legal ethics trial that began Monday over allegations that she has psychotic delusions and improperly claimed a medical disability to get…
Concerned about possible airline-focused terrorism targeting flights to Europe during the December holidays, officials in both the United Kingdom and the U.S. have been talking about potential enhancements in security…
Told there was no procedure for appealing a decision by Illinois bar exam authorities not to provide stop-the-clock breaks when she needed to pump breast milk, Kristin Pagano nonetheless wrote…
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