It was a time when courthouse metal detectors and bag searches were not yet commonplace. So when Thomas Provenzano walked into the Orange County Courthouse on Jan. 10, 1984, no…
After a summer in which gun violence in Chicago claimed more American lives last year than the war in Iraq, the National Rifle Association has gained an unlikely ally in…
A California appeals court ruling on the responsibilities of departing partners is causing headaches for partners at the dissolved law firm Heller Ehrman.
Those who saw Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde probably think of the notorious Depression-era criminal couple as glamorous gangsters.
On the day the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, in a salvo that began the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln’s gold pocket watch happened to be in a repair shop…
Critics are calling for punishment of the Justice Department author of several memos backing harsh interrogation techniques and broad presidential powers. They raise the specter of prosecution, civil liability and…
Earlier this month, it was a rare ancient mammoth’s fossilized bones. But it was soon followed by another whale of a find at a construction site for a California law…
Upping the ante in a likely U.S. Senate showdown, Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) suggested to his junior colleague, newly appointed Sen. Roland Burris (D.-Ill.) in a one-on-one meeting today…
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