A Texas judge with a history of promoting legal education to minorities is calling on the state university system and Texas legislators to establish a new law school in the…
An 83-year-old Florida man whose Army conviction for the 1944 lynching an Italian prisoner of war was overturned as “fundamentally unfair” has gotten a check for back pay.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that federal courts may consider challenges to state accounting formulas used to value railroad property for tax purposes.
A report concluding that drug evidence could have been skewed by sloppy work in the New York police lab in 2002 is likely to spur appeals by inmates imprisoned on…
A Salt Lake City lawyer claims the government does not want to turn over documents about the death of his brother in prison after questioning about the Oklahoma City bombing…
The felony murder doctrine has put a Florida man in prison for life because he lent his car to four burglars who killed an 18-year-old girl during the crime.
The lawyer for a man accused of hiding a suspect in the murder of a carjacked couple claims in a motion for a change of venue that blogs helped “outrage…
A religious nonprofit has sued Reed Smith alleging the firm engaged in inappropriate billing practices and charged excessive fees of nearly $1 million.
One of the Jena 6 defendants has agreed to a plea deal in juvenile court that apparently will require him to serve little additional time, after spending much of 2007…
Over the years, an 86-year-old federal judge who sits in Brooklyn, N.Y., has developed a following among local plaintiffs lawyers. And complex tort cases are frequently given to U.S. District…
Proudly proceeding on a fast track toward legal residency and eventual U.S. citizenship, Beth Keathley was so excited about having had a chance to vote in her first American election…
A federal judge in Utah has thrown out a guilty verdict in an assault case against an American Indian defendant because of jurors’ racist remarks during deliberations.
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