A federal judge has ordered the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to pay an Iowa trucking company’s $4.56 million legal bill after dismissing what she characterized as a pattern and practice…
It is a bright mid-September day. Hal and Judy Graham are sitting in the living room of their restored 19th century farmhouse, which looks out over the still-green rolling hills…
As lawyers argue about the intent of the drafters of the Constitution and judges mull the issue before deciding civil rights cases, a little-noticed phenomenon also has significant influence on…
A Missouri appeals court on Tuesday overturned a $2.1 million verdict that jurors had awarded a Northland lawyer who claimed she was unfairly bypassed for a judicial appointment.
The Los Angeles County district attorney’s Public Integrity Division is looking into complaints that the mayor of Carson is using a mute button to silence those he doesn’t agree with…
Two panels in different districts of one federal appeals court made apparently conflicting rulings yesterday in cases over students in two separate Pennsylvania school districts who posted similar parodies of…
As malicious cyber attacks apparently are occurring more frequently and with more sophistication than ever before, a search engine giant has turned to a U.S. spy agency for help in…
The Securities and Exchange Commission has investigated more than two dozen employees and contractors caught viewing pornography on their government computers, including one regional supervisor who admitted his viewing habits…
In a move intended to block key provisions of proposed national health care reform legislation, the Democrat-controlled state senate of Virginia yesterday approved measures that would make it illegal to…
Inspired by a Florida municipality’s decision to ban saggy pants on city property, two South Florida men came up with a now-patented design that is intended to help fans of…
In a stinging rebuke to a federal judge who sentenced a well-known former Chicago lawyer and politician to probation in a corruption case, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals…
Already the mother of two daughters, Samantha Burton had obtained prenatal care for her third pregnancy and voluntarily went to the hospital when she experienced symptoms she’d been told to…
In a rare call by a prosecutor for a blanket boycott of a jurist, the Santa Clara, Calif., district attorney told her staff Friday not to bring any cases before…
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