Gibson Dunn lawyers who noted that an expert witness had apparently misspelled his own name in letters to an Ecuadorean court believe the finding may have helped uncover evidence of…
A federal judge has ordered artist Shepard Fairey and his new lawyers in a copyright suit to disclose records that were destroyed, when it happened, and the persons responsible.
A Los Angeles lawyer has been charged with 28 felony counts for allegedly participating in an insurance scam involving the staging of accidents in order to collect fraudulent payouts.
A Maryland judge who dismissed a domestic abuse case after marrying the defendant to the woman he was accused of beating and kicking now says his “Catholic conscience” urged him…
A United Kingdom court has ruled that Newzbin is liable for material downloaded by users onto its website in violation of copyright law, finding that editors assisted them…
The proliferation of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter has created a tangle of ownership rights, subpoena power and even malpractice actions for botched e-discovery for lawyers and…
Suppose the defendant in a case you’re judging has produced a document with a certain hash value (used to index items in a database) that the plaintiff wants to use…
The U.S. Supreme Court stayed the execution of Texas death row inmate Hank Skinner on Wednesday evening, just one hour before he was scheduled to be executed.
A South Carolina lawyer accused of secretly staging a courtroom stunt to demonstrate an alleged design flaw in a Kia seat belt won’t be sanctioned for his actions.
A California judge has ordered the San Francisco police crime lab to turn over for a relevance review some 1,100 pages of documents related to an investigation of a veteran…
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