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…
A third-year student at Drexel University’s law school claims in a lawsuit against Dechert that its reliance on higher-ranked law schools in hiring discriminates against the disabled.
A jury has awarded $638,000 to the plaintiff in an unusual Connecticut lawsuit filed by a mother over claimed sexual abuse of her highly intelligent but mentally ill adult daughter.
Corrected: A disability lawyer who won election to the Michigan Supreme Court last Tuesday will become the state’s first blind state high court justice.
A Connecticut dad claims in a federal lawsuit that school officials in Milford, Connecticut, violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when they kept his daughter home from school because of…
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