A federal statute barring recognition of same-sex marriage can’t prevent a legally wed same-sex couple from jointly filing for bankruptcy, a group of 20 judges in California has decided.
Charged three years ago in the 1986 death of her fourth husband, Betty Neumar was supposed to go to trial in February in the North Carolina solicitation-of-murder case.
Family members of an emergency medical technician who died in a Texas helicopter crash allege in a lawsuit that they are entitled to a refund of $5.2 million in legal…
An Illinois police chief is looking to prosecutors for guidance on whether to investigate a Leland Grove lawyer who says he paid more than $40,000 to a team of mother-daughter…
A company that buys life insurance policies and resells them to investors has sued a so-called Twittersquatter that used its name in sarcastic posts cheering mass disasters.
Deciding that he might be a better fit in another job, a young Baltimore police officer with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland found he had at least…
After pleading guilty in 2007 to an insider-trading conspiracy, a former associate at Thacher Proffitt & Wood lost a parallel civil case brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission…
A suspended Los Angeles lawyer has been sentenced to 32 months in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release for participating, along with the CEO and an attorney-principal…
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