A Kentucky coal miner who videotaped leaking seals at work and showed the footage at a federal mine safety hearing has won a reversal of the subsequent disciplinary action taken…
Jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford and three of his company’s former executives have racked up millions in legal bills as they defend themselves against accusations that they participated in…
After admitting that he can’t defend himself against charges that he embezzled $2.4 million from a corporate client and blew most of the money at casino slot machines and agreeing…
Ohio tort lawyer Stan Chesley is facing an ethics investigation by the Kentucky Bar Association for his conduct in litigation involving fen-phen and priest abuse.
An Ohio lawyer has been suspended for overbilling local courts for her representation of poor clients, submitting bills for more than 24 hours a day on three different occasions.
In an order that apparently contravened state law or created dangerous ambiguity, some New Orleans police say they were told after Hurricane Katrina either that they could shoot looters or…
Seven individuals who were arrested while dressed as zombies then jailed for two days after they participated in a 2006 street protest of “mindless” consumerism have agreed to accept a…
The actor who played a werewolf on the Twilight Saga is trying to take a bite out of the recreational vehicle dealership that allegedly failed to deliver a $300,000 movie…
Cellphones are contraband items in jails and prisons, since they can help inmates communicate, both with each other and the outside world, to coordinate illicit activity.
Updated: A California attorney known as the “tax lady” whose law firm grosses some $25 million a year has been accused by the state attorney general of operating a “heartless…
Even though the alleged identity of a high-profile Russian hacker—Vladislav Horohorin—has been known since 2009, it wasn’t until he took a trip to France earlier this month that “BadB” was…
Finding that a plan by the Obama administration to expand federally funded research using human embryonic stem cells likely is prohibited by a federal law banning the use of government…
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