A former Wal-Mart pharmacist who contended she was fired on a trumped-up disciplinary charge after she complained she was paid less than male counterparts by the giant retailer is entitled…
Observers are debating how best to handle shakedown attempts, following David Letterman’s startling announcement on his Late Show television program last week that he had sexual relationships with some women…
When constitutional law scholar Ron Rotunda and his wife departed George Mason University School of Law last year for new jobs at Chapman University School of Law in California they…
An almost 25-year-old law school tenure decision is suddenly controversial, following testimony by a now-high-profile professor before a Congressional committee last month that he was denied fair consideration due to…
Another case concerning employment tests for firefighters is back before the U.S. Supreme Court, but the issue is the timing for filing a complaint. A decision for the city of…
In a ruling that a CBS spokesman called “a total victory,” a New York appeals court today reversed a trial judge and said former network anchorman Dan Rather’s breach of…
A federal judge today approved a consent decree in which Sears Roebuck & Co. agrees to a record-breaking $6.2 million settlement of an Americans with Disabilities Act case brought by…
A much-publicized hidden-camera video that led ACORN to fire two Baltimore workers and bring in a former Massachusetts attorney general to investigate on the community activist group’s behalf…
A little-noticed U.S. Supreme Court decision on heightened federal pleading standards has been cited in more than 1,500 cases, spurring trial lawyers and groups backing civil rights and consumer causes…
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has dismissed former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales from a lawsuit alleging that the U.S. Department of Justice illegally blacklisted job applicants based on…
A federal judge in West Virginia has dismissed a lawsuit against the founding partner of a Pittsburgh, Pa., law firm accused of conspiring with others to file fraudulent asbestos claims…
A lab technician was arrested today and charged with the murder of a 24-year-old graduate student whose body was found this weekend in the Yale University building in which both…
A conversation about the Yankees between a juror and a witness didn’t require reversal of an employment discrimination verdict, according to a federal appeals court.
The general counsel of Mace Security International Inc. was sentenced yesterday by a federal judge to six months of home confinement and a year of probation for his role in…
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