Fired two years ago in a political purge of federal prosecutors during the Bush administration, a former U.S. attorney for Nevada has now been rehired.
A recent federal appeals court ruling provides an unusually detailed roadmap to prosecutors about appropriate electronic discovery parameters and procedures and could create a sea change in the way the…
At the same time that the United States was prosecuting five Cuban intelligence agents in Miami nearly a decade ago, the government’s Office of Cuba Broadcasting was also paying local…
Four days after the Bank of America’s shareholders approved a merger with Merrill Lynch, the bank’s general counsel, Timothy Mayopoulos, was suddenly fired and escorted from the building without being…
Bar authorities in North Dakota have extended for another year the suspension from law practice of a former federal prosecutor who admittedly shoplifted two knives in separate incidents last year.
Stymied in his efforts to determine whether the Bank of America and executives complied with disclosure requirements concerning its merger with Merrill Lynch by what he terms an “indiscriminate” use…
An individual allegedly unconstitutionally detained as a material witness under a post-Sept. 11, 2001 anti-terrorism policy implemented by ex-U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft can sue the nation’s former top law…
A hard-fought campaign for the office of New Jersey governor has put the driving records of two major party candidates under a spotlight. And, since one of them is a…
Perhaps seeing the handwriting on the wall, the U.S. Department of Justice asked a federal judge to dismiss a major drug case with prejudice, and the judge has agreed.
Federal authorities had warrants authorizing the seizure of steroid-test results for less than a dozen Major League Baseball players. But, in “an obvious case of deliberate overreaching by the government…
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