A new homeless shelter expected to open in a month on Florida’s west coast will arguably offer those down on their luck something of a Hobson’s Choice.
A talking parrot provided what could be taken as chilling evidence in the case of a 60-year-old South Carolina woman charged with neglecting her 98-year-old mother, who was found on…
Attorney John Chaffo Jr. probably made no more than $18,000 to $30,000 from closing some 60 fraudulent real estate loan transactions for a fee of between $300 and $500.
An 80-year-old woman living on Social Security vows to fight the $100 ticket she says she got for tossing a newspaper into the public trash can outside her New York…
Texas’ highest criminal court has temporarily halted a hearing on the constitutionality of capital punishment overseen by a Houston judge who issued then rescinded a decision striking down the state’s…
A University of Arizona law professor offers advice to underwater homeowners in a new book that echoes his earlier views that walking away from a mortgage…
Updated: Actor Wesley Snipes had sought a month’s delay before he begins serving a three-year sentence for failing to file tax returns, so he could spend the holidays with his…
A new law school is on the drawing board in the corridor between New York City and Washington, D.C., where the University of Delaware is proposing to open its doors…
A former information technology manager in charge of keeping electronic materials secure for an unidentified Wilmington, Del., law firm allegedly used confidential information from at least 20 clients in insider…
The parents of an 11-year-old pitcher who was struck in the head by a line drive earlier this year are suing the maker of the aluminum bat with which the…
A California lawyer’s claim that jailhouse sex was consensual and lasted no more than “an hour’s total duration” shows he still doesn’t get it and should be disbarred, a state…
A New York lawyer has been sentenced to a 10- to 20-year prison term for operating a scam in which he stole some $300,000 from would-be adoptive parents by pretending…
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