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…
Siding with the families of two Virginia Tech students slain in a 2007 campus massacre by another student that left 33 individuals dead, a state-court jury in Christianburg today awarded…
Sentenced to death but given a reprieve by a state governor who says there will be no executions on his watch, an Oregon inmate is challenging the suspension of his…
A Washington state judge warned in a 2007 letter that a man arrested last week in an attack on another judge and a sheriff’s deputy “could become a threat.”
A nationally known Arizona sheriff’s requirement that inmates at his jail don pink underwear could be unconstitutional, as far as those not yet convicted of a crime are concerned, a…
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has sued 12 former directors and officers at the failed Freedom Bank in Georgia, part of an ongoing effort to recover losses to its insurance…
Saying that the use of its own in-house city attorneys to fight employment-related claims conferred a benefit to its insurance carrier, the city of Portland, Ore., has filed suit against…
When police in San Francisco’s traffic division stop a motorist on suspicion of drunken driving, one of the first steps they take during a field sobriety test is to check…
A controversial Illinois state law making it a felony offense for an individual to record police in public without their permission was ruled unconstitutional today by a Chicago judge.
Criminal charges have been dropped against a New York man accused of motoring into his driveway at a high rate of speed and forcing a police officer to jump out…
The Marshall Islands—two roughly parallel chains of low-lying coral atolls that stretch across 800 miles just north of the equator—have an intensely close relationship with the Pacific Ocean that surrounds…
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(L to R) Bill Robinson, former ABA Executive Director Robert Stein and Uniform Law Commission President Michael Houghton.
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