Public defenders throughout Minnesota are struggling with hefty caseloads, slowing down the justice system and potentially failing their clients because they are stretched too thin.
A pro se prison inmate has notched a federal appeals court victory in a drug and weapons case, winning a ruling from the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals…
A paralegal and her husband have been indicted on charges of embezzling more than $1 million from the Texas law firm where she also served as office manager.
A federal appeals court today blocked a plan to allow same-sex marriages in California later this week, while the so-called Proposition 8 case ruling overturning a state referendum that banned…
Allegedly rebuked and ordered to leave a New York City restaurant for breastfeeding her baby in public, a mother has sued, contending that she is now too traumatized to breastfeed…
Fined $20,000 for pursuing what a federal judge in Georgia determined to be a frivolous claim that President Barack Obama is not a U.S. citizen and hence unqualified to serve…
A group of Benedictine monks is seeking a federal court order recognizing their claimed constitutional right to sell simple wooden coffins—at what they say is a considerably lower cost than…
What one defense lawyer described as a “massive amorphous blob” of evidence seized from Bernard Madoff is slowing down a criminal prosecution of three of the convicted Ponzi schemer’s alleged…
The California Supreme Court has upheld a four-year law license suspension for a former assistant Santa Clara District Attorney found to have committed “inexcusable” violations of ethical rules requiring prosecutors…
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