A deaf-mute defendant facing trial in Pennsylvania after allegedly being caught ferrying a load of cocaine in his car from Las Vegas to Philadelphia area in October has tested the…
Lawyers for interested parties ranging from abuse survivors and multinational corporations to the Boy Scouts of America and media entities are battling about whether so-called “perversion files” can be opened…
In the aftermath of a massacre at an Tucson shopping center on Saturday by a Glock-wielding gunman that left a Congresswoman critically wounded and six others dead, including the chief…
A federal appeals court panel in San Francisco today grilled both sides in a battle between Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and upscale identical twins who claim he stole the idea…
The state senate of Illinois today approved a proposed ban on capital punishment by a 32-25 vote, sending the bill, which was previously passed by the state house of representatives,…
Concerning that a 52-year-old Florida jurist’s death from lung cancer last month may have been linked to courthouse mold, three of Judge Cheryl Aleman’s colleagues on the ninth floor have…
A disoriented former aide to multiple Republican presidential administrations seen wandering around Wilmington, Del., in the days before his body was discovered at a landfill late last month made a…
Updated: U.S. District Judge John McBryde of Fort Worth, Texas, has sanctioned three lawyers and recommended criminal charges against two of them for motions questioning his integrity in litigation over…
Stunned by the news that their chief judge had been gunned down over the weekend in a Tucson, Ariz., shopping mall shooting spree that left six dead and 14 injured,…
A convicted burglar allegedly passed himself off as an Illinois lawyer and represented paying clients for at least five years before finally being caught when a court clerk in suburban…
Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was sentenced to a three-year prison term today by a Texas judge in a conspiracy and money-laundering case concerning $190,000 in corporate political…
In the aftermath of a much-awaited Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling Friday rejecting a “foreclose first, assign later” policy approved by a real estate bar group, both banks…
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