A Mississippi school district has agreed to pay $35,000 to settle a lawsuit by a lesbian teen denied the chance to attend a school-sponsored prom with a same-sex date.
The West Coast chain of 99 Cents Only Stores is facing two lawsuits for raising the prices of its items to 99.99 cents, essentially making them cost $1.
Updated: A recent article in the Sacramento Business Journal said the Sacramento office of McDonough Holland & Allen was paying substantially above an $1,800-per-attorney benchmark…
Freed today from a federal prison in Florida, onetime media mogul Conrad Black is seemingly potentially on track for a possible reversal of his fraud and obstruction of justice convictions.
Deciding a closely watched case challenging the way that one university attempts to comply with federal requirements concerning gender equality in college sports programs, a federal judge has determined that…
A New York man who has made a business out of playing a guitar in Times Square while seemingly wearing very little except a cowboy hat and his shoes has…
Qualified immunity does not apply to protect a former deputy district attorney from being personally sued for approving a search warrant of a student journalist’s home due to a professor’s…
A fashion model who says she was duped into providing evidence to Boies Schiller & Flexner by its promise to represent her individually in a case against modeling agencies can…
Finding that a law firm made a bad-faith involuntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition in an effort to force an ex-client to abandon meritorious counterclaims in a fee-dispute case, a federal…
In the latest report of an alleged theft from a law firm by an employee trusted with access to its funds, the office manager and bookkeeper of a Clearwater, Fla.,…
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled 4-3 that the Menards home-improvement chain is not required to reinstate the company’s top in-house lawyer who was fired after complaining about her pay.
An increasing number of criminals are mutilating their fingerprints in an effort to avoid detection, despite the pain caused by acid or burning metal used to create scarring.
A federal judge in Manhattan has dismissed a proposed shareholder class action against American Express, calling the allegations “a classic example of fraud by hindsight.”
San Jose, Calif. criminal defense lawyer Jamie Harley wiped away tears as a jury convicted her Tuesday of laundering money for a client who trafficked in stolen computer equipment.
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