The family of a 17-year-old car crash victim had no right to be notified that his brain had been removed during an autopsy, New York’s highest court has held.
The district attorney in Albany, Georgia, has dropped a murder charge against a woman accused of ending her pregnancy with a drug she bought online without a prescription.
An Allentown, Pennsylvania, firm and one of its lawyers is being sued by the state’s attorney general for allegedly misrepresenting the law to intimidate family members into paying off relatives’…
A federal appeals court has ruled that plaintiffs challenging a surgical center requirement for Texas abortion clinics should have brought the claim in a prior suit challenging other parts of…
A federal judge has ruled that a genetic privacy law protects two employees who submitted to DNA testing during their employer’s search for a “devious defecator” leaving piles of feces…
A federal appeals court has ruled that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People can’t use trademark law to stop an anti-abortion activist from substituting “abortion” for “advancement”…
Facing sanctions over thalidomide birth-defect litigation that was determined to be either baseless or time-barred, did the plaintiffs’ law firm dismiss 27 cases for its own benefit?
A former project attorney for Pepper Hamilton has filed a pro se lawsuit (PDF) against the Philadelphia-based national law firm, contending that it violated the Americans with Disabilities…
A nearly 20-year legal battle by a convicted murderer seeking gender reassignment surgery at taxpayer expense ended Monday when the nation’s top court declined to hear an appeal by Michelle…
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