A Kansas attorney could have his law license suspended for helping a newspaper reporter interview inmates for a story about alleged illegal sex and the trafficking of contraband within the…
Five former executives of a private security company that made headlines over its involvement in a 2007 Baghdad shooting incident that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead are now under indictment,…
A decision by a top official of the CIA to destroy 92 videotapes showing the harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects was done without the knowledge or assent of two top…
Benjamin Hooks, a minister, a lawyer and renowned civil rights leader who revitalized the NAACP while serving as its executive director from 1977 to 1992, died today at his home…
A Florida lawyer who is a resident and volunteer in Miami Lakes plans to sue the municipality over its policy of treating citizen e-mail addresses as public records.
Federal bank regulators took a lackadaisical approach as signposts loomed pointing toward Washington Mutual’s record-breaking 2008 collapse, allowing executives to continue on a course of risky subprime lending that one…
Jailhouse monitoring of prisoners’ phone conversations has previously ignited controversy from opponents of the practice over claimed violations of attorney-client privilege and inmates’ constitutional rights.
The top prosecutor in Manhattan scrambled to handle a busy misdemeanor call this morning, making plea deals in minor check forgery cases and reporting grand jury action in petty larcenies…
A deposition that has made headlines in Connecticut–especially after counsel for the deponent, secretary of state and would-be Democratic attorney general candidate Susan Bysiewicz, briefly sought a protective order to…
Noted Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe is facing some constraints in his new, specially created job in the Obama administration as “senior counselor for access…
Prosecutors in the federal corruption case against former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich have asked a federal judge to force his one-time general counsel to testify.
The state of Kentucky has sued the Full Tilt Poker website and other online gambling operations in an effort to recoup gambling losses—times three—for Kentucky residents.
The already-imprisoned founder of a the Montana Freeman militia group has been sentenced to an additional eight years for liening the property of three federal judges after winning a default…
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