A judge who is to rule on whether four plaintiffs’ suit against Girls Gone Wild producer Joe Francis will stay alive or be dismissed has ordered that footage of the…
Neuroscientist Jim Fallon was already studying the brains and DNA samples from seven family members, as a personal project to determine relatives’ risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.
At least eight people have been cited by the La Crosse, Wis., police department for underage drinking based on incriminating photos on social media sites.
A celebrated Houston plaintiffs attorney was speeding at almost twice the legal limit on rain-slick pavement when he lost control of his SUV late last month, striking a tree and…
A little-noticed opinion by a New York judge earlier this month didn’t simply free Fernando Bermudez after 18 years in prison in a murder case. It found that…
A jury in South Florida says Philip Morris USA must pay $300 million, including $244 million in punitive damages, to a 25-year Benson & Hedges smoker who argued that the…
A hearing officer had discretion to terminate an 11-year government civil service employee over her obnoxious treatment of a co-worker, a New York appeals court has ruled.
An arbitrator, rather than a judge, will hear claims by a former Toyota in-house lawyer that the automaker destroyed evidence in more than 300 rollover suits.
After making headlines several months ago by posting a video on YouTube to bolster its defense of an Ecuador-based environmental mass tort case, Chevron is again trying an unusual litigation…
Reversing the drunken-driving conviction of a woman who wasn’t allowed to argue at trial that she had to flee a dangerous bar fight, the Montana Supreme Court has ruled that…
An Illinois judge has decided that an anonymous commenter on a newspaper website will be unmasked, even though the mother of a teen about whom “Hipcheck16” allegedly made “deeply disturbing”…
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