Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is reportedly only one of nearly a dozen area lawyers whose conduct concerning a police whistle-blower case is mushrooming into a major scandal.
After resigning as Miami’s city attorney earlier this month, at the same time that a misdemeanor plea agreement concerning his office expenses was announced, Jorge Fernandez is reportedly still hoping…
Updated: An executive arm of the European Union has fined Microsoft Corp. a record $1.35 billion for failing to cooperate with a 2004 antitrust decision. It required the company to…
A Houston district attorney who resigned earlier this month, ending an investigation over his use of the office e-mail system, is out of a job but not out of a…
Sweeping new DNA searching techniques are leading authorities in the United Kingdom to violent criminals who have evaded detection for years. Among them: a man who raped a 36-year-old woman…
Unless you buy for cash, purchasing a home involves signing a mountain of mortgage paperwork detailing the terms of the loan. Ironically, this means that many buyers don’t understand even…
Following criticism last year over his lavish spending of city money on municipal legal perks, Miami’s city attorney has agreed to resign and plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of…
Seeking to coordinate state and federal efforts to reduce gun crime and control firearms trafficking, a group of East Coast cities and a federal agency have announced a new tactic…
A top immigration official admitted in congressional testimony yesterday that the U.S. has detained American citizens on mistaken claims that they are illegal immigrants, but says this is “extremely” rare.
In a highly unusual move, six members of a 12-person grand jury that indicted a Texas Supreme Court justice are suing the county prosecutor and the state for permission to…
Under federal law, creditors aren’t supposed to be able to seize social security payments, or disability or veterans benefits to pay a debt, and the government won’t send their checks…
Still reeling from last week’s murder of five citizens at a Kirkwood, Mo., municipal council meeting by a disgruntled litigant, officials in other St. Louis area municipalities are now discussing…
A child pornography case concerning illicit images allegedly stored in the defendant’s laptop computer has created what experts say is a novel Fifth Amendment issue. Can the defendant assert his…
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