Some justice officials in a southern Georgia county are accused of hitting criminal defendants with improper court fees and then requiring those who were jailed to pay for room and…
An East Coast law firm with more than 160 lawyers has concluded that its future leaders need more training than the kind offered in management seminars or sink-or-swim opportunities.
Contrary to its advertising claims, a cable television company provides Internet service that not only isn’t lightning swift but intentionally slows to a snail’s pace on certain applications, a lawsuit…
Weighing in on an important workplace issue that has undoubtedly vexed many an employee nationwide, the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reportedly rendered an opinion that…
Echoing a similar holding by a federal judge concerning another company executive, a special master in Kansas state court has found that a utility company wrongly refused to pay $2.46…
A Houston federal judge has given the government the go-ahead to seek nearly $13 million in assets from the estate of Enron founder Kenneth Lay, who died last year after…
The First Amendment looms large in the case of Rev. Billy, who was arrested in June for harassing police by reciting the text of the free speech guarantee.
When answers to the New York bar exam written on laptop computers this past summer turned up missing, officials said they expected to be able to get the answers from…
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