In the latest development in a continuing legal battle over a controversial Wisconsin law that eliminated collective bargaining rights for most local government and school workers, a state court judge…
A blind lawyer injured when a bicyclist struck him in Central Park has drafted a suit from his hospital bed claiming New York City is violating the Americans With Disabilities…
In a move critics call an excessive governmental intrusion, the New York City Board of Health on Thursday adopted a regulation that prohibits the sale of large, sugary drinks at…
Representing himself and his wife pro se, an Oregon attorney told a municipal court judge that they had built a $100,000 backyard swimming pool without a required wetlands permit because…
A stately Chinese pine is at the center of a tree dispute that could be the first adjudicated under a Seattle suburb’s 20-year-old law intended to help neighbors resolve such…
A Texas lawyer accused of stealing some $2.3 million from 49 disabled veterans whose finances he handled, has taken a plea as a trial was about to begin in federal…
Upholding a federal court’s injunction that prevented the city of Los Angeles from treating as trash the personal belongings that homeless individuals left unattended for a short time, a federal…
Controversial Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joseph Arpaio must stand trial on allegations that he had two alternative newspaper executives jailed in retaliation for articles criticizing his activities, a federal appeals…
A defense lawyer’s handling of what could have been a routine probation-revocation hearing resulted in a huge shake-up in Harris County, Texas, after witnesses responding to questions by Lisa Andrews…
A New York judge who has been threatened several times during his nearly 20 years on the bench decided he wanted to get a concealed-carry permit and take a loaded…
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