Two former Pennsylvania jurists whose conditional guilty pleas to corruption charges and agreed 87-month prison term were nixed by a federal judge late last month are now asking…
A famous civil rights lawyer and Harvard Law School professor is trying to hold Justice Antonin Scalia’s feet to the fire concerning a U.S. Supreme Court ruling…
The Department of Justice won’t appeal a ruling last month expected to result in a lower insider trading sentence for the former CEO of Qwest Communications.
A federal appeals court has overturned the backdating conviction of the former CEO of Brocade Communications, saying the trial of Gregory Reyes was tainted by a prosecutor’s untrue statement to…
More than 150 Americans with accounts at UBS AG are being investigated by federal authorities for potential tax fraud after a former employee of the Swiss bank helped point the…
A federal judge in Kentucky today sentenced to ex-lawyers to 20- and 25-year prison terms for bilking their former clients out of $94 million in fen-phen settlement money.
Under traditional legal standards, a pet owner entitled to damages over the death of an animal gets only what it would cost to buy another pet from a breeder.
The trauma center chief at Tampa General Hospital in Florida pleaded no contest today to two misdemeanor charges concerning a bullet he removed from a suspect during surgery in April.
Two former Kentucky lawyers will be sentenced today for their conviction on charges they kept nearly $95 million from a massive fen-phen settlement that was supposed to be paid to…
The Virginia State Bar has dropped ethics charges against a lawyer in the state Attorney General’s office who oversaw a letter discouraging jurors in capital cases from speaking to defense…
Thousands of juvenile convictions tainted by the work of a corrupt Pennsylvania judge should be dismissed and not retried, a judge appointed by the state supreme court recommended today.
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