When Garry Malphrus decided he wanted to be a federal immigration judge, no application or interview was required. Having worked in the White House and with D. Kyle Sampson, who…
Corrections Corp. of America, a private company that runs state prisons in Tennessee, is subject to the state’s open records law, a Chancery Court judge has ruled, because it is…
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has agreed to pay San Diego $2.8 million to settle a malpractice suit that contended the law firm failed to uncover the extent of the city’s…
It wasn’t just political affiliation that some top officials at the Department of Justice may have considered when making decisions about hiring and firing.
It took 64 years, and only two of 28 African-American soldiers wrongfully convicted of rioting charges connected with the lynching of an Italian prisoner of war in 1944, in the…
With a stroke of the pen today, California’s health-conscious Republican governor, movie actor and bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger, terminated restaurants’ use of trans fats.
Proposed revisions to the regulations implementing the Americans With Disabilities Act were published in the Federal Register last month by the Department of Justice, giving both the…
Legislators in Pennsylvania are scurrying to close a loophole in state law that recently allowed a cell phone provider to give prosecutors’ personal records to a defense lawyer in a…
The neighbors had been more or less tolerating 100 or so bronze fountains, mermaids and other figures, centered around a 12-foot Neptune, in Gerald and John Hubbs’ 50-foot-wide all-concrete front…
A railroad company has settled with the government for a record $102 million in a case over a 2000 wildfire in a forest north of Sacramento, Calif., that was especially…
Updated: An alleged war criminal arrested in Serbia yesterday after 13 years on the run disguised himself in the interim by donning a big pair of glasses, growing a…
It costs more to treat the mentally ill in jail than in a hospital setting. But jail offers the only treatment alternative for many, due to a lack of psychiatric…