If a ballot measure is approved by voters and then declared by a court to be unconstitutional, what happens if top state officials decline to appeal that ruling?
In the first settlement of some $125 million in claims made by Maricopa County, Ariz., officials who say they suffered damages because of alleged off-the-rails prosecution and litigation by Sheriff…
The federal agency that oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is prepared to file lawsuits against more than a dozen big banks over troubled mortgage securities.
Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas took an aggressive tack earlier this year when he signaled an intent to sue Arizona ethics investigators who recommended he be disbarred and county…
Lawyers representing two companies linked to the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program are surprised the agency never objected to contract litigation that played out in an upstate New York courtroom.
Rejecting a shopping mall store’s arguments that a porch-like front doorway with two steps was in compliance with disability laws because handicapped-accessible doors were right at hand, too, a federal…
The top federal prosecutor in Arizona has resigned, effective immediately, and two other officials who oversaw a botched federal investigation of gun-running operation have been reassigned. In the probe, agents…
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed an age discrimination suit against American Samoa that claims the territory gave older government workers less desirable jobs when they refused to retire.
A federal appeals court has reversed a trial court ruling that a girl born, with the help of in vitro fertilization, two years after her dad’s death is entitled to…
A Massachusetts man who voluntarily provided DNA in 2002 to police investigating a murder may pursue a privacy invasion suit seeking return of his genetic profile, a state appeals court…
As the housing market continues to slide, the U.S. government is considering a mortgage refinancing plan and other options to help struggling homeowners.
As family and friends attended a funeral Mass today in San Francisco for attorney Donald Casper, 63, a $12,500 reward was announced for information about the hit-and-run driver who struck…
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