About two months ago, a California state-court judge not only freed a convicted child molester but accused the assistant Santa Clara County district attorney on the case of testifying falsely…
A little over two weeks ago, Tom Zachry won the Republican judicial primary in a race for the 432nd District Court bench in Tarrant County, Texas. There is no Democratic…
Apparently angry over what he perceived as a federal judge’s delay in ruling on his civil suit over an alleged unlawful arrest and incarceration, a Virginia man sent the South…
Greenberg Traurig has agreed to pay Calumet Park $3.2 million following news that a now-former partner of the firm is believed to have billed the suburban Chicago municipality for over…
A federal judge in Manhattan has rejected a settlement that would have paid rescue and cleanup workers at the destroyed World Trade Center up to $657.5 million using money from…
The parents of a 17-year-old autistic youth who committed suicide last October claim in a lawsuit that his Georgia school district and its principal failed to prevent the bullying that…
An associate who claimed in a lawsuit that he suffered a breakdown partly because of “abusive conduct” by a partner at Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold included “scandalous” and irrelevant…
An elected county attorney in Iowa has reportedly turned in his office keys after the state’s top court today suspended his law license over a sexual relationship he had with…
One day a week, the drug court in Pinellas County, Florida, focuses exclusively on women. Funded by a $900,000 federal grant, the “Ladies Day” program encourages women, who officials say…
In court in the Chicago area yesterday to represent the defendant in a hearing over a woman’s request for an order of protection in a domestic relations case, Dan Florey…
A hard-fought 15-year court battle by the late celebrity model Anna Nicole Smith and her heirs over the estate of the Texas oil billionaire she married when she was 26…
A grand jury has refused to indict a Houston, Texas, criminal defense attorney accused of working with a homeless man to recruit potential clients as they departed the Harris County…
Baffling prosecutors and upsetting victims, an Ohio judge has ordered four teenage victims of sexual assaults to take polygraph tests—after their alleged attackers have already been found delinquent, reports the…
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