Several lawyers who represent Guantanamo detainees have changed the way they practice law because of concerns that the government is listening in to all of their phone conversations.
Updated: The planned execution tonight of a Georgia man is the first since a de facto moratorium on capital punishment ended last month with a U.S. Supreme Court rejection of…
A magistrate judge in New York has refused to impose a sanction on JetBlue for destroying a document in a passenger’s lawsuit against the airline for failing to protect her…
Can it really be true? A mainstay of massive document productions for decades, the Bates stamp could be going the way of the dinosaur, a legal publication says.
A New York appeals court has reinstated a $20 million malpractice and fraud suit brought by a grandson of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst against the grandson’s wife and the…
Much has been written, in recent weeks, about the number of teen girls entering into “spiritual” underage marriages at a Texas ranch from which some 462 children were removed last…
Former Milwaukee police officer Laurie Bembenek has filed a cert petition with the U.S. Supreme Court that seeks a reversal of her conviction based on new evidence of innocence.
After two men on Mississippi’s death row were cleared of their convictions, the Innocence Project, which investigated their cases and represented the men, is calling for criminal charges against a…
Memory chip technology developer Rambus protected itself from a judge’s stinging opinion when it offered to pay opponent Samsung’s legal fees after allegations Rambus shredded documents in advance of patent…
Ending speculation that not all five of the children of Russia’s last royal couple, Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra, were murdered along with the rest of the family…
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