Right now, violators will only be warned by Addison authorities. But starting next year residents of this suburban Chicago town face a fine of up to $500 for putting a…
The University of California’s law school at Berkeley is offering a new accelerated summer LL.M. program that will allow international law students to take the state bar exam after two…
One of three fen-phen lawyers on trial for allegedly defrauding their clients in a fen-phen case testified yesterday that he and a co-defendant deposited tens of millions of dollars of…
A Texas death-row inmate scheduled to be executed on Tuesday claims in court papers that the judge who presided at his trial was secretly dating the prosecutor.
Rather than waiting for lenders to foreclose, a group of struggling borrowers in Florida has turned the tables by suing those who gave them mortgages they can’t afford to pay.
A national registry for U.S. recreational anglers was proposed yesterday by the National Marine Fisheries Service, as part of a plan to keep track of the fish that are being…
The partners of a prominent Charleston, W.Va., law firm have sued the company that produces Verizon phone directories, saying that a mistake in its Yellow Pages ad is costing Neely…
A New York judge has ordered the state legislature to increase the pay of state judges, which now stands at $136,700 a year for those at the trial level.
As a battle between the mayor of Detroit and the Detroit city council heats up after a scandal over an apparent affair and claimed perjury allegedly revealed by text messages…
Ordinarily, an employment discrimination lawsuit against a government entity is sparked by a problem between employees, or an employee and a supervisor.
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