A truck driver who has accumulated more than a 100 parking tickets in a years-long battle with Milwaukee over where he can park his rig when at home will be…
During a hearing that began today over a controversial $8.4 million settlement by the city of Detroit of police whistle-blower cases, a lawyer representing the mayor told the city council…
Here’s the scenario that culminated in a $1.8 million settlement in New Jersey this week: Family takes plot of land that had been vacant for 20 years; developer builds condos;…
An Illinois couple who say they just wanted to enjoy seeing birds in their yard have been ordered to remove their feeders because neighbors complained they attracted too many pests…
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review the constitutionality of an Idaho law that bars local governments from making automatic payroll deductions to pay for political activities by labor…
A controversial $8.4 million settlement by the city of Detroit that critics contend was made largely for the purpose of covering up a sex scandal involving Detroit’s mayor has put…
Although an upcoming merger at the end of the month will put more than 100 lawyers at Charlotte, N.C.-based Helms Mullis & Wicker into one of the nation’s largest law…
A Washington state prison inmate serving 24 years for arranging to firebomb two lawyers’ cars has a right to seek personal information about state attorneys, prison guards and judges, a…
The corporation counsel and the deputy human resources director for the city of Detroit appeared before a Wayne County Circuit court judge today in contempt proceedings.
In a case accepted for review today, the U.S. Supreme Court has asked lawyers to address whether the justices should overrule a 2001 decision involving government officials’ qualified immunity from…
Within the past week, the governor and former attorney general of New York has resigned over a sex scandal that also reportedly may have involved illegal payments to prostitutes.
The U.S. Department of State has fired two contract workers and disciplined a third for looking through Sen. Barack Obama’s passport file without good reason.
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