A unemployed cell-tower technician and Marine Corps veteran got a four-month jail term yesterday for throwing a 4-pound Chihuahua off a bridge in Maryland last year, presumably causing the dog’s…
A California mom successfully used Facebook to search for the two children she hadn’t seen in nearly 15 years, after their father allegedly took them and told her she would…
More than six years before a record-breaking gender-based employment discrimination suit was filed against Wal-Mart Stores in 2001, a law firm warned in a confidential report that the goliath retailer…
A 76-year-old New York personal injury lawyer has been suspended for six months after allegedly making unwelcome sexual advances and seeking oral sex from a client.
The chief of staff for President Barack Obama has been subpoenaed as a defense witness in the upcoming political corruption trial of Rod Blagojevich, the…
A federal judge’s unusual order requiring the filmmaker who created the Crude documentary to turn over some 600 feet of raw footage to Chevron has been temporarily suspended.
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a Texas death row inmate has the right to DNA tests that his lawyer rejected because he feared they would be…
A California judge blasted the San Francisco District Attorney’s office in an opinion today, saying that high-level officials there had repeatedly failed to provide defendants with constitutionally required exculpatory information…
A federal judge in San Francisco has quashed a subpoena seeking to force Yahoo to provide the Web address for an anonymous online critic of USA Technologies, saying that “Stokklerk”…
The board overseeing a ritzy Baltimore condo put off a vote Wednesday evening on a plan to collect “doggie DNA” to identify the dog or dogs that are leaving their…
Reversing and remanding a trial court’s ruling on the appropriate legal fee for plaintiff’s personal injury lawyers who negotiated a $18 million settlement, including $6 million in attorney’s fees, a…
An Illinois attorney has had his law license suspended for two years over a combination of admitted misconduct, including two drunken-driving arrests and videotaping five women in sexual activities at…
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