The U.S. Supreme Court today agreed to leave in place the American military’s controversial “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy concerning service members with a same-sex orientation, while an appeal of…
Charged with vehicular homicide after a 28-year-old Iraq war veteran died in a Florida car crash, Andrew Gaudioso, who reportedly had drugs in his system at the time and allegedly…
A DNA test performed 10 years after the execution of a Texas inmate raises questions about his guilt in the robbery and murder that sent him to death row.
A Florida Bar grievance committee has dismissed a complaint against a court-appointed criminal defense lawyer accused of billing the state for more than 24 hours on 41 different days.
Real estate lawyer and former state lawmaker Christopher Maselli is current on mortgage payments for some $1.7 million in financing for four homes he started purchasing during the real estate…
Talk of a possible posthumous pardon for former Doors front man Jim Morrison in a 40-year-old Florida indecent exposure case has put his sole surviving defense…
A South Florida lawyer reportedly has been disbarred and is now facing criminal forgery charges for allegedly lying to a mortgage-rescue client and falsely claiming to have obtained a dismissal…
As he gave a high-profile defendant in an options-backdating case the probation and home confinement recommended in a presentence investigation, a federal judge in Los Angeles yesterday also offered a…
A California public defender won’t be prosecuted for reportedly issuing an in-court challenge to a deputy district attorney to duke out a dispute over a hearing date in a drug…
In what a Bloomberg columnist is calling the “stupidest lawsuit ever,” government-funded Freddie Mac, which has been shored up by taxpayer bailout money, is suing the feds.
A retired in-house lawyer’s announced intent to rely on claimed legal advice from outside counsel in defending against criminal accusations of wrongdoing concerning her work at GlaxoSmithKline raises tricky privilege…
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