Updated: A press release issued by Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis only hints at the troubles he is facing in a Florida courtroom as he defends himself in a…
The family of a 13-year-old eighth grader who committed suicide claims in a lawsuit that his Texas school was aware of constant bullying but did little to stop it.
Justice Antonin Scalia’s son, Euguene, is a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, the law firm representing Wal-Mart as it opposes a worker class action in a case argued Tuesday…
As lawmakers throughout the country struggle to make ends meet in difficult economic times, many are seeing the courts and legal services as an area in which cuts can and…
A police officer and a county judge in South Florida worked together with prosecutors to develop a Skype-based booking system for the town of Palm Bay that operates as a…
A chemist for the Food and Drug Administration and his son are accused of reaping $2.27 million in illegal profits from an insider-trading scheme that allegedly used information from a…
Department of Justice officials investigating the massive oil spill nearly a year ago in the Gulf of Mexico are considering possible perjury and manslaughter charges.
Whether to allow the largest class action sex-discrimination case ever, against Wal-Mart Stores Inc., to go forward was argued before the U.S. Supreme Court today.
Two confidential informants helped the FBI bring a criminal case against defendants accused of plotting together to kill the top federal judge in Alaska.
A majority of the U.S. Supreme Court appears ready to strike down an Arizona campaign finance law that doles out additional matching funds to publicly financed candidates as privately financed…
A Colorado defense lawyer has filed a motion claiming a prosecutor’s policy of paying bonuses for convictions should result in her office’s ouster in his client’s case.
Workers would get more expansive protections for disabilities under final regulations released Friday that interpret 2008 amendments to the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Two former senior partners are battling their well-known former law firm in Scotland over more than 300 lucrative Legal Aid case files that they are accused of swiping when they…
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