A Mississippi judge has been suspended for 30 days without pay, and will also be reprimanded and fined, for talking with litigants and lawyers outside court.
A San Francisco judge has dismissed a marijuana-dealing case at the preliminary hearing stage after surveillance video showed multiple discrepancies in an account by police of what happened when they…
The U.S. Justice Department hosted a day-long negotiating session to discuss foreclosure practices on Wednesday that included state attorneys general and five of the nation’s largest banks.
A lawyer for a woman who developed a neurological disorder while taking a generic drug says the highlight of oral arguments on Wednesday was questioning by Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
A suit filed by the former chief operating officer of Marc Jacobs International claims a company lawyer showed little interest in complaints of a sexually charged workplace that included a…
A judge in New Jersey yesterday ordered the Newark Star-Ledger to identify an anonymous commenter who said he witnessed a fatal car crash that resulted in an aggravated manslaughter charge…
Found guilty by a church tribunal in 2006 of sexually abusing a minor decades ago and subsequently defrocked, a high-ranking former New York priest has now turned the tables on…
A prosecutor in suburban Chicago can identify with a frequent complaint of the defendants he prosecutes after his own acquittal on charges that he asked public employees do campaign work…
Throughout the state of Florida, chief judges apparently are in agreement that attorney David J. Stern and his law firm can’t simply abandon as many as 100,000 mortgage foreclosure cases.
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