Jerry Flanory doesn’t have a lawyer—yet. But after scoring a pro se civil rights victory in federal appellate court in Detroit yesterday that could soon change.
A federal appeals court has ruled that a Utah couple is not entitled to pursue damages against state officials who sought to force their son to undergo chemotherapy for Ewing’s…
Concerned that jurors might improperly access public information from the online court docket, an Oklahoma judge ordered it taken down for the duration of the trial in a medical malpractice…
The U.S. Supreme Court has held federal medical officials are shielded from personal liability for failing to diagnose the penile cancer of a Salvadoran immigrant who died after being released…
A woman whose genetic makeup may put her at increased risk of breast cancer has reportedly filed first-of-its-kind administrative complaints in Connecticut alleging that she was illegally fired from her…
A guilty plea yesterday in Manhattan federal court by a 68-year-old safety inspector who reportedly never looked at more than 200 properties he certified to be free of asbestos and/or…
On the eve of trial, a judge dismissed a False Claims Act case against a onetime general counsel of Tenet Health Care Corp., finding that the government waited too long…
A federal judge in New Jersey is giving a former lawyer for Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom a chance to prove that it was her idea to use thalidomide…
In 1996, a Delaware hospital conducted an internal investigation of a pediatrician accused of inappropriate conduct with young patients and concluded he had done nothing wrong. Hence, administrators reportedly never…
Setting the stage for an appellate court showdown, a federal judge in Wisconsin has struck down as unconstitutional a state law that reportedly is the only one in the nation…
Updated: Facing a mandatory life sentence for the murder of a Kansas abortion doctor in a Wichita church, Scott Roeder got the harshest possible sentence today—life with the possibility of…
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