When Eric Dare and Doreen Houseman first asked a New Jersey judge to determine which of the two would get custody of their pet pug, Dexter, he treated the toy…
The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee is threatening to revive stalled legislation that would give bankruptcy judges greater power to revise mortgage terms and even reduce the principal…
An apartment management company in Illinois has sued a tenant for libel over a “malicious and defamatory” tweet about the state of her apartment to her 20 followers on Twitter.
Condo buyers at a new building in New York by the Hudson River are citing a single digit error in an offering plan in an effort to rescind their contracts…
In a sad day for a man who made history as the first black graduate of Stetson University’s law school and the first black judge in his county’s circuit court,…
In what some consider an Orwellian remedy, Amazon eliminated from users’ Kindles last week electronic copies of the classic George Orwell books Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four after determining that…
As the recession puts a dent in legal work along with just about every other segment of the economy, many attorneys are being tempted by a business opportunity that shows…
Possibly tens of thousands of homes have been used to make methamphetamine, causing health problems and financial worries for new owners and unsuspecting landlords.
I write to compliment you on your excellent article on the Alaska fishing industry and its accident record, “The Cemetery Sea,” May. The extensive research writer…
If, five years ago, you asked members of local government in a major city what was likely to be one of the hot-button issues of today, it is unlikely that…
Responding to increased client demand for help with condemnation and eminent domain proceedings initiated in the nation’s capital, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.-based Ackerman Ackerman & Dynkowski has opened a new part-time…
In a filing on behalf of three high-level government officials—including President Barack Obama—who are named as defendants, the U.S. Department of Justice seeks to dismiss a federal lawsuit by descendants…
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