A federal judge has tossed a lawsuit challenging the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretap program because the plaintiffs—a liberal legal group and five of its lawyers—don’t have standing.
Finding that a blanket ban on results-oriented attorney advertising violates the First Amendment, the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today struck down a challenged Louisiana rule of…
Huntington, N.Y., divorce lawyer Gary Field suspected the husband of an ex-client was responsible for anonymous online rants deeming him “dumb” and “the most worst attorney.”
Koch Industries is asking a federal court in Utah to force two Internet companies to reveal who issued a fake press release suggesting an unexpected about-face in environmental stance by…
An Ohio lawyer serving as an expert witness appropriately became a defendant in criminal and civil cases when he created child pornography by digitally altering stock photo images of children…
A Pennsylvania state court judge has dismissed criminal charges against an inmate accused of harassing and threatening the prosecutors who put him behind bars on a parole violation concerning an…
A onetime lawyer who was disbarred in 1992 cannot use the initials “JD” after his name because his apparent intent was to convince others that he was a licensed attorney,…
Two teenage girls in Florida apparently may have thought it would be an amusing prank when they allegedly pasted a high school classmate’s head atop a nude photo of an…
A federal appeals court has upheld a law authorizing police officers in Narragansett, R.I., to post bright orange stickers on homes that have hosted unruly gatherings.
A disbarred lawyer who once ran for Connecticut attorney general has lost an appeal that contended she had a free speech right to accuse three trial judges of having the…
An avowed neo-Nazi who posted the photo, name, home address and phone number of a juror who helped convict self-proclaimed white supremacist Matthew Hale in 2004 of soliciting the murder…
ABC television stations won’t have to pay a combined $1.21 million penalty for broadcasting an NYPD Blue episode with a shot of a female character’s nude buttocks.
Arrested, cited for contempt and jailed after she tried to wear a headscarf into a Douglasville, Ga., court two years ago, a Muslim woman filed a federal civil rights lawsuit…
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