A federal appeals court has dismissed a suit by Michigan lawyer Geoffrey Fieger challenging an ethics rule requiring lawyers to use courtesy and civility.
U.S. District Judge Mark Bennett of Sioux City, Iowa, is a tech-savvy judge in a district with high-tech courtrooms. When he was a practicing lawyer in…
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott maintains that inauguration prayer is constitutional in an amicus brief that opposes a lawsuit by a group of atheists.
A Texas woman filed an employment discrimination lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in federal court this week, contending that the tax agency had refused to allow her to carry…
A federal appeals court has ruled the government does not have to disclose the identities of Guantanamo Bay detainees who claim they were abused in custody.
A group that doles out grants to public interest legal organizations had its money invested with Bernard Madoff, the hedge fund manager accused of losing $50 billion in investor money…
In these days of financial turmoil, bankruptcy lawyers seeking to advise clients on dealing with burdensome debt can take comfort: The first federal appeals court to rule on a controversial…
Finding that a one-year-old Amish boy will die if he doesn’t have heart surgery, a New York judge has ordered that it be performed despite his parents’ refusal to consent,…
A municipality in suburban Chicago violated the First Amendment rights of residents when it imposed greater restrictions on those who wanted to criticize the city in public protests, a federal…
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