In a federal fair housing case that represents just a fraction of the discrimination that may be occurring nationwide, a Texas-based lender has agreed to pay $765,000 and stop discriminating…
A New York attorney who formerly served as a prosecutor in the Bronx was found not guilty in a felony drunken driving case today by a Bronx Supreme Court jury.
An attorney who allegedly obtained confidential information over a 17-year period while working at three major law firms before being charged earlier this year in an insider-trading case that allegedly…
A federal appeals court has ruled against a volunteer Wiccan chaplain who alleged in a lawsuit that California prisons violated inmates’ rights when they failed to give him a paid…
A plaintiff challenging the new health care law could derail a federal appellate ruling on its constitutionality because she bought health insurance from her employer last October.
A Pennsylvania lawyer told a judge on Tuesday that his office was in such disarray that he didn’t open a letter notifying him that his law license had been suspended.
In an opinion filed yesterday in redistricting dispute involving the Girl Scouts of the United States, the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals court took a well-known law firm…
A Detroit-based law firm has settled on undisclosed terms a federal discrimination lawsuit brought by a former executive assistant who alleged that she injured her back while wearing high heels…
A former partner of Clark Thomas & Winters was convicted yesterday by a Texas jury in a case that revolved around the alleged padding of legal bills to obtain money…
A Beverly Hills fertility doctor who implanted 12 embryos into the woman who became known as “Octomom” after she had octuplets “did not exercise sound judgment” in doing so and…
Updated: An Illinois lawyer’s work on behalf of her own mother in a real estate matter and other conduct merits disbarment, a state hearing panel has recommended.
Nine cocktail waitresses claim in a lawsuit that they were fired by the Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City to make way for women who were younger, slimmer and sexier.
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