Unhappy with the mail-order penis enlargement product he bought in 2007, a New Jersey attorney was also unhappy with the initial result of the class-action consumer fraud litigation he brought…
International publicity about a published photograph in which Olympic swimming star Michael Phelps is seen taking a hit off what appears to be a marijuana pipe—as Phelps himself has admitted…
In what the U.S. Department of Justice describes as an unprecedented ruling, a federal judge in Chicago yesterday ordered the FBI to search its massive national DNA database to see…
Accusations that two now-suspended Pennsylvania judges accepted $2.6 million in kickbacks in exchange for incarcerating juveniles at specific detention facilities have spilled over into another multimillion-dollar case.
After repeated instances of police allegedly lying in court to obtain convictions, some observers would like to see stricter preventative measures. In addition to videotaping searches, some have even suggested…
An unidentified former CIA station chief in Algeria is being investigated by the U.S. Department of State and Department of Justice in at least two potential rape cases.
The chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts has issued a 42-page ruling blasting the U.S. attorney there over an alleged pattern of violations by…
A prosecutor in Kansas who suffers from a form of autism has been suspended from practice for six months for showing sexually explicit photographs to parents of some teenagers who…
A Minnesota attorney’s courthouse behavior yesterday in the midst of a client’s trial in a terroristic threats case reportedly led to an immediate investigation and the lawyer’s arrest on felony…
Authorities in Los Angeles are reviewing the fingerprint analysis in about 1,000 cases, after errors by six examiners came to light as a result of a local newspaper’s investigative report.
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