A state-court judge has ordered officials in Troy, N.Y., to take DNA tests to help prosecutors determine who may or may not be responsible for alleged absentee ballot fraud in…
A law professor representing a New Orleans federal judge in an impeachment trial before a special U.S. Senate committee came out swinging today as the hearing began its first day.
An arbitrator has ruled (PDF) that a former in-house lawyer for Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. may use documents that otherwise would be protected by attorney-client privilege because…
Corrected: When a coonhound owned by Konrad Haskins bit Daniel Bork, it seemed to Haskins that a sanitizer wipe and a $20 bill were all that was needed to…
The former chief executive officer and tax attorney for the Quellos Group LLC hedge fund have accepted a plea agreement that will require them to pay the Internal Revenue Service…
In the latest penalty assessed in an ongoing series attorney discipline cases resulting from a controversial secret settlement in a Detroit police whistleblower case, the lawyer who represented then-Mayor Kwame…
A federal judge has revived a once-dismissed claim by a former staff attorney at Covington & Burling that the law firm’s policies are discriminatory because they have a disparate impact…
Still fighting what some observers considered a too-lenient “public warning” over her 2007 refusal to authorize a court clerk to accept a late execution-eve appeal, the top criminal court judge…
In a three-paragraph order today, a federal appeals court has temporarily lifted a district judge’s preliminary ban on government funding of some research on stem cells from human embryos.
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