Saying that he considered it “astonishing” that a major lender would act in such “brazen … unauthorized and impermissible” conduct, a federal judge yesterday ordered Bank of America Corp. to…
A recording of a man refusing what the Transportation Security Administration refers to as a “standard pat down” search at the San Diego airport over the weekend and what he…
Following several embarrassing incidents in which prisoners walked out of New York courts–one involving an inmate who successfully pretended to be a lawyer–a new policy has been put in place…
As some law profs and law school administrators bemoan or ban the electronic devices that make it easy for today’s students to sit in the back row and text and…
In an effort to encourage shoppers to bring reusable bags from home, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors yesterday banned disposable plastic grocery bags and imposed a 10-cent surcharge…
A longtime senior lawyer in an Illinois public defender’s office should be censured for photocopying documents he was entitled to discover, but had not yet received through normal channels, an…
Adding to its westward expansion in recent years, Philadelphia-based Ballard Spahr has opened a new office in San Diego with a five-lawyer team from La Bella & McNamara.
A law firm defending onetime Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford in federal civil securities litigation has sued the insurer providing his company’s policy of directors and officers liability coverage and…
A New Jersey lawyer and his two affiliated Pennsylvania debt-collection companies have agreed to cancel $7.9 million in charged-off debts, delete records of the claimed debts from the credit reports…
A transgender candidate has now officially won election to a seat on California’s superior court bench, apparently making Victoria Kolalkowski the first trial judge in the country to claim the…
Following a Rolling Stone expose about how a judge in one Florida court handled foreclosure cases on Jacksonville’s “rocket docket,” officials swiftly made changes to improve public…
In a first for the nation, the California Supreme Court ruled unanimously that illegal immigrants who graduate from state high schools can receive lower tuition at California’s public universities and…
Two California men are suing a San Rafael restaurant, claiming a birthday celebration was ruined when escargot they ordered exploded, spewing hot butter on their faces and shirts.
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