A November 2009 massacre at the U.S. Army’s Fort Hood military base in Texas “could have and should have been prevented” by the Army and the FBI, said Sen. Joseph…
As foreclosures have surged in Florida and nationwide in recent years, even reverse mortgages that do not require any monthly payment and instead funnel money to the homeowner could soon…
Journalists, legal teams and the public are all permitted to use Twitter to send live tweets from the United Kingdom’s highest court, according to guidance provided today.
Corrected: Upping the ante in a hard-fought legal battle over megabillions in environmental damage allegedly caused to a South American rain forest by a predecessor of Chevron Corp., the oil…
A $5 million class-action lawsuit claims President Jimmy Carter deceived the public in a 2006 book by holding out as factually accurate his claims of historical events during Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
The company that owns Arm & Hammer Super Scoop kitty litter has dropped its lawsuit contending it’s impossible to substantiate ad claims that cats prefer Fresh Step.
A 13-year-old Las Vegas teen who while in a medically induced coma was ticketed for jaywalking is out of the hospital, and she’s taking her own legal action against the…
Third in his class at St. John’s University School of Law, a certified public accountant working at PricewaterhouseCoopers was looking ahead to a bright future in the law.
Angered by what he and his counsel describe as an unfair and defamatory cover story in an alternative Washington, D.C., newspaper, the owner of the Redskins is seeking the dismissal…
Corrected: Named in an arrest warrant after allegedly shooting another man to death on Monday night, trial attorney Richard F. “Richie” Dodelin was at his home in Columbus, Ga., yesterday…
Despite 33 complaints, it took eight years for child protection authorities in Washington state to remove six brothers from a family home in which their lawyer says they were starved,…
A graduate of Oriel College at the renowned University of Oxford blames her law school for her failure to pass both the New York state bar exam and comparable tests…
An American woman who has called herself Jihad Jane has now pleaded guilty in federal court in Philadelphia concerning her role in an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist.
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