Expert witnesses are citing a test designed to spot those who are faking their pain in hundreds of court cases, prompting debate about its reliability.
A $1.7 million settlement was approved today in a federal civil rights case that led to the exposure of a Texas prosecutor’s personal e-mail and his eventual resignation.
When officials at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art decided to litigate against artist Christoph Büchel over an incomplete commissioned piece, they probably didn’t realize what they were getting into.
After spending about 20 years in prison for shooting a Philadelphia police officer responding to a break-in call in 1966, William Barnes seemingly had paid his debt to society.
Germany’s highest court has ruled that the government may not use spy software to access information on personal computers absent a warrant and exceptional reasons to do so.
Experts can now match an individual’s hair to the regional tap water he or she has been drinking. That offers a new evidentiary tool to prosecutors and law enforcement, because…
Updated: The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that courts need to make case-by-case determinations when deciding whether to admit “me too” evidence of age discrimination.
Former McAfee general counsel Kent Roberts’ quest for notes of a law firm’s corporate backdating probe appeared to run into a roadblock Monday in the form…
Sweeping new DNA searching techniques are leading authorities in the United Kingdom to violent criminals who have evaded detection for years. Among them: a man who raped a 36-year-old woman…
Former McAfee Inc. general counsel Kent Roberts claims notes of an internal investigation will show that other executives were behind backdating of stock options at the company.
A co-director of the Innocence Project, which uses DNA testing to free the wrongly convicted, plans to ask the state of Mississippi to review the cases of more than 20…
Have you eliminated all metadata from electronic documents you send to opposing counsel? Do you look for metadata in the documents you receive? And, in both cases, does your approach,…
Lawyers are increasingly checking out social networking websites such as Facebook.com and MySpace.com as they prepare for litigation, but two recent cases split on efforts to obtain and use such…
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