Some 400 owners of residential and commercial property in Texas and some other states, are affected by an ongoing plan to build a 670-mile fence along the Mexican border.
First licensed to practice law in 1987, Jon Alexander followed an unlikely career path to be elected the district attorney of California’s Del Norte County.
Agreeing that 3M Co. had been betrayed by a major law firm’s decision to help the Minnesota attorney general pursue an environmental suit against its former longtime corporate client, a…
The U.S. government has filed a civil suit claiming Wells Fargo engaged in reckless lending, leaving the Federal Housing Administration on the hook when buyers couldn’t pay government-insured mortgages.
In a crackdown on a problem that has aggravated fellow drivers throughout the country, Chicago has begun an aggressive program to deal with disabled parking abusers.
An assistant New Orleans city attorney received a municipal summons charging him with simple marijuana possession after, police say, a joint dropped out of his pocket as he was chatting…
Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to rule that temporary flooding caused by the U.S. government is not a taking of private property requiring…
Seeking to balance the rights of those with liberal and conservative views on public nudity, a San Francisco lawmaker last year successfully introduced an ordinance which sought to legislate a…
A Chicago lawyer who noted the federal government failed to comply with the Fair Credit Reporting Act is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow his class action suit against…
A Kentucky lawyer has been reprimanded for using his personal laptop computer during downtime at work to earn extra income by answering legal questions on JustAnswer.com.
Guantanimo Bay: Of the terrorism suspects detained at the U.S. military prison, 600 have been transferred to other countries and 169 remain, according to an analysis by the New York Times and NPR. AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File
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Guantanimo Bay: Of the terrorism suspects detained at the U.S. military prison, 600 have been transferred to other countries and 169 remain, according to an analysis by the New York Times and NPR. AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File
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