A federal judge is mulling possible sanctions for multiple Central Intelligence Agency lawyers and two other CIA employees including a former director after finding that the agency committed fraud while…
A Manhattan judge has tossed another New York judge’s $10 million defamation claim against a lawyer thought to be the source of two critical newspaper columns in the New York…
A computer hacker accessed internal documents at Twitter and made them public, igniting debate about the legal and ethical obligations of those who published confidential material about the microblogging website’s…
A libel suit brought by billionaire—or is that mere millionaire?—Donald Trump over an author’s claim that the real estate mogul’s net worth is only about $200 million has been dismissed…
A Washington, D.C., lawyer who is chair of an ABA committee on postal matters received a new kidney in an unusual eight-way transplant thought to be the largest chain of…
A judge told Harvard University law professor Charles Nesson that he has until Thursday to explain why he should not be sanctioned for his “blatant disregard” of her court orders.
A judge in New Jersey superior court ruled last week that Shellee Hale of Washington state is not protected by New Jersey shield laws for her posts on an online…
The Recording Industry Association of America says that Harvard Law Professor Charles Nesson is violating court orders and privacy laws by posting recordings of pretrial hearings and depositions to his…
A pending settlement between Google Inc. and groups representing authors and publishers could violate antitrust law, the U.S. Department of Justice says in a letter to the federal judge in…
Defense counsel for an attorney and former New Jersey lawmaker accused in a child pornography case must be given access to the images allegedly found on Neil Cohen’s computers, a…
A Pennsylvania lawyer initially portrayed by his counsel as a victim has now pleaded guilty to criminal charges related to a $2.5 million juvenile detention judicial…
A California appeals court has ruled that MySpace isn’t liable for the rapes of teenage girls who were assaulted by men they had met on the social networking site.
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