A law professor who has been teaching at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law since 1981 has filed an age discrimination lawsuit alleging that he is receiving less in base pay than “significantly younger less experienced counterparts.”
The conservative legal movement gained ground after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down restrictions on independent campaign spending by corporations in the 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday refused to recuse himself in a tax case handled partly by a lawyer whose co-interviews of the justice resulted in two articles in the Wall Street Journal.
A federal appeals court has upheld an $8.46 million penalty against a lawyer who promoted a timeshare-donation tax shelter that overvalued the properties.
Lawyers for Hunter Biden are fighting on two fronts as U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika of the District of Delaware asked attorneys from Latham & Watkins on Tuesday to show cause why they shouldn’t be sanctioned and then put a proposed plea agreement on hold the next day.
A U.S. Supreme Court decision written by Justice Clarence Thomas may have created uncertainty about the constitutionality of a gun charge against President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden, leading to a favorable plea deal.
President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden has reached an agreement with prosecutors in which he will plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and enter a pretrial diversion program to resolve a gun charge.
Updated: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a 94-year-old woman could pursue a claim that a tax foreclosure sale violated her rights under the Fifth Amendment’s takings clause.
The felony business-records case against former President Donald Trump “stands apart” because the indictment does not include any separate charges, according to the New York Times, which reviewed about 30 such cases.
A company owned by billionaire Harlan Crow bought a home and two vacant lots from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his relatives in 2014, according to a new report by ProPublica.
Updated: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been hobnobbing with billionaire Republican megadonor Harlan Crow, who has showered Thomas and his wife with gifts of luxury travel for more than two decades, according to an investigative report by ProPublica.
Former President Donald Trump has been charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records as part of an alleged scheme to influence the 2016 presidential election and mischaracterize payments for tax purposes.
An agreement enacted by Disney World’s oversight board before its control was turned over to political appointees preserves power for Disney at the expense of the new board—and for quite a long time, thanks to a "King Charles clause."
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