A federal appeals court has ruled Monsanto Co. may not sell genetically altered alfalfa until a government environmental study determines whether the crop would contaminate farmers’ nearby fields.
The founders of Pennsylvania-based Kimmel & Silverman, the “1-800-Lemon-Law” firm, have been suspended from legal privileges in Maryland for failing to supervise a lawyer there unable to keep up with…
Updated: Lawyers for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick only had a half-hour this morning to stop a hearing by the state’s governor that could result in their client’s ouster from office.
Now 41, Robert Chambers Jr. became notorious decades ago. His murder trial and manslaughter plea, for what he claimed was the accidental strangulation of a young woman in 1986 during…
Updated: Just minutes after a state court refused today to block the Michigan governor’s planned hearing tomorrow over the possible ouster of Detroit’s embattled mayor, counsel for Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick…
A lawyer in Cranston, R.I., was disbarred by the state’s supreme court last week after his counsel disclosed that Pasquale Scavitti III had admittedly stolen $2.5 million in more than…
A small California brewer who stood his ground in the face of threatened federal regulatory enforcement over his tongue-in-cheek bottle caps has won the regulatory battle.
A Michigan organization that finds volunteers to work on behalf of children removed from their homes because of neglect or abuse has given its website a makeover.
The federal prosecutor in St. Louis says she is concerned about the performance of a lawyer who represents a defendant sitting in jail for almost two years with apparently no…
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is being represented by an Anchorage lawyer in a probe into the firing of Alaska’s public safety commissioner.
Employment and professional liability lawyer Thomas…
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