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…
For nearly 3,000 years, variola major—a disease known as smallpox—plagued the planet. From Europe to Africa and Asia, the disease killed as many as 30 percent of those infected. There…
Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old Baltimore man who died from a spinal injury after being arrested by police, had health problems as a child due to lead-paint exposure, according to a…
Updated: The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted to confirm Loretta Lynch as U.S. attorney general after a vote earlier today to end debate on her nomination.
Arizona appellate courts said a state agency acted within its constitutional powers by prohibiting pedicures by foot-nibbling fish and the nation’s top court apparently agrees.
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