Reversing a lower court ruling that imposed penalties on an out-of-state law firm for collecting fees on dishonored checks in excess of what is allowed under the Arkansas Deceptive Trade…
Stopped by the side of the road in Coral Springs, Fla. last October, a 59-year-old woman initially had only two flat tires to deal with, caused, she admits, by bumping…
Arrested last October on the Brooklyn Bridge along with hundreds of other Occupy Wall Street protesters, Jeff Rae expected to fight the charges against him.
Even some of the U.S. Supreme Court’s liberal justices appeared to side with the Secret Service on Wednesday as they considered whether agents should be immune from suits over protester…
Cleared in a rape case concerning a junior colleague and reinstated to his $150,000-a-year job, a 55-year-old California sex crimes prosecutor today announced his intention to sue the county and…
A former New Jersey insurance attorney has beaten the rap on constitutional grounds after getting a red-light-camera ticket from a Florida municipality in the mail.
A Louisiana district attorney can’t hire a receptionist laid off at his former private law firm, because doing so could provide an economic benefit to the firm by reducing its…
Having already been found liable in the 2006 hiking accident deaths of a Gibson Dunn & Crutcher partner and her cousin, the state of Hawaii has agreed to pay a…
Kansas City Municipal Judge Elena Franco has filed an administrative discrimination claim over a city residency probe, contending that it was conducted in retaliation for the questions she raised about…
Updated: A Michigan criminal defense lawyer was arrested in open court Monday and taken to a Wayne County Circuit Court holding area, as a hearing in his client’s capital murder…
After a local newspaper reporter told him last week that he had an unpaid $50 parking ticket from 12 years previously in Flint district court, a Michigan judge immediately anted…
In a more than 500-page report filed Thursday in federal court in Washington, D.C., a court-appointed lawyer tasked with investigating the failed federal prosecution of the late U.S. Sen. Ted…
Expressing hope that “this is a country that is governed by the rule of law, that the truth ultimately will prevail,” the impeached former governor of Illinois has headed to…
A former lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve who previously made a name for himself as a politician and New Hampshire lawyer, before being disbarred in 2006, is now gaining…
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