A former law student who sued Florida Coastal School of Law for failing to accommodate her depression and other disabilities has lost her federal appeal.
A lawyer who until this year was a partner at Morrison & Foerster has been arrested on charges that he submitted almost $400,000 in fraudulent bills for the homeschooling of…
A Chicago area teen claims in a lawsuit that her high school violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when it barred her from playing basketball with the help of her…
A San Diego lawyer has irritated business owners in the town of Redlands, Calif., by sending out letters on behalf of clients demanding $6,500 settlements for claimed violations of the…
A basic principle law students are taught in first-year torts class is that defendants who happen to injure a fragile plaintiff can’t point to the victim’s weakness to excuse their…
The parents of child with Asperger’s syndrome have filed suit against her northern Idaho school district and the sheriff’s department for the arrest of their daughter in the third grade.
A 71-year-old solo practitioner in Texas and his 70-year-old office manager and wife are facing a 26-count federal indictment for allegedly stealing more than $2 million from the accounts of…
Four law schools have been added as defendants in a California lawsuit filed last year by a blind advocacy group against the Law School Admissions Council.
All through law school, three new graduates seeking to become members of the Maryland bar used specialized software to help them read text on their computer screens.
A Nashville songwriter declared mentally disabled in October 2007 and committed to a psychiatric ward has regained legal control of his affairs after an expensive battle.
Updated: The state department of justice is among the defendants in a lawsuit alleging that California agencies are discriminating against deaf workers by not providing them with required sign-language interpreters.
The rights of an employee who uses an allergy-detection dog are at odds with those of another worker with asthma in a complaint pending with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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