U.S. District Judge Richard Kyle says he didn’t have any idea that his son’s law firm had performed work, in unrelated matters, for a defendant in a massive case he…
A trial of free Pacer service at 17 public libraries shut down last fall after public records advocates downloaded an estimated 20 percent of the entire database.
Two former judges from northeastern Pennsylvania pleaded guilty yesterday in a scheme to accept $2.6 million in kickbacks from the owners of a juvenile detention facility.
A Mississippi judge who presided over a bitter multimillion-dollar legal fees dispute concerning asbestos litigation has been indicted for allegedly secretly funneling information about the case to one of the…
Escalating violence in Mexico and Latin America from a failed U.S.-led war on drugs is putting democratic governments and their judicial systems and police forces at risk, says a report…
A Dallas lawyer has filed a libel suit against a judge overseeing a case involving the dissolution of his law firm for expressing concerns that the lawyer was stalking him.
Accustomed to accolades earlier in his career, a Florida appeals court judge hit a roadblock after he was accused of helping a longtime friend who is a stripper shield her…
A Pennsylvania lawyer who formerly was a co-owner of juvenile detention facilities implicated in a jail-for-pay case that has brought down two senior judges was a victim of their kickbacks…
Hiring—and trusting—a disbarred lawyer known for his 1980s involvement in a bizarre condoms-for-chickens scam was a mistake, a retired Michigan judge says.
“Former Clinton Township district court judge William Cannon…
A federal appeals court has overturned the assault conviction of a Montana man, saying he doesn’t qualify as an Indian under a statute giving jurisdiction to the federal courts.
A federal judge is so fed up with what he labeled a prominent defense firm’s history of “vexatious” litigation tactics that he has threatened to bar all 20 partners and…
Already serving a five-year prison term for his role in a scheme to bribe a Mississippi judge concerning a dispute over Hurricane Katrina legal fees, once-renowned trial attorney Richard “Dickie”…
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