Updated: A Mississippi lawsuit filed by Eaton Corp. in 2004 resulted in fireworks earlier this month when a judge overseeing the Hinds County circuit court case ordered a number of…
LIke a growing number of states, Illinois has a law that expressly allows mothers to breast-feed their babies in public, even if they do so in a manner that others…
A Kansas lawyer has been suspended for two years for falsely claiming that the judge mediating her divorce appeared to be masturbating under the bench.
Rudolph Tollefson is the only attorney in North Dakota who has had his law license suspended due to late child-support payments, according to the director of the state agency that…
The Philippine Supreme Court chief justice, accused of stealing money from the country and in the middle of an impeachment trial, yesterday stated that he did nothing wrong by not…
A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a lower court ruling exempting the CIA’s waterboarding records and a photograph of Abu Zubaydah during his interrogation from disclosure under the Freedom…
Five of Kansas’ seven supreme court justices have recused themselves from a pending disciplinary case against former state Attorney General Phill Kline.
The five justices voluntarily stepped aside, citing a…
A Texas man who has served almost 13 years of a 20-year prison sentence for sexually assaulting a young relative should be resentenced because of false testimony by a prosecution…
Maui will be hosting the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ annual conference this year, and two Republican U.S. Senators are questioning the wisdom of that, as the federal court…
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has relieved Justice Joan Orie Melvin of all judicial and administrative responsibilities, ordered her records secured and directed the court administrator…
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