Updated: Ruling on an interlocutory appeal by U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, a federal appeals court in Chicago not only agreed with the prosecutor that the chief district court judge had…
For the second time in a week, Texas prosecutors are calling for the release of a convicted rapist exonerated by DNA evidence after serving a lengthy prison term.
A high-volume Florida foreclosure practitioner has been an early adopter of a businesslike model of law practice, in which a back-office company handles much of the litigation preparation work for…
A battle over whether a Florida homeowner could park his pickup in his own driveway racked up over $187,000 in legal bills for the unswerving owner by the time the…
Defense lawyer Sam Adam Jr. told jurors on Tuesday that former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich may not be “the sharpest knife in the drawer,” but he’s not corrupt.
The city of New York has paid $7.15 million to three victims to settle a civil rights case concerning an unarmed African-American man who was shot to death by police…
Apparently frightened by her mother’s driving, an unidentified 12-year-old girl in New York reportedly called 911 repeatedly from the car on a cell phone to report her parent as an…
Agreeing with defense lawyers that a claimed marital rape involving two teenagers hadn’t been properly focused upon in jury instructions, the Utah Supreme Court has overturned unusual felony accomplice rape…
A lawyer representing a teenage high school student and his family in a would-be class action over alleged illegal spying via school-district-issued laptop computer webcams says he can ill afford…
Once upon a time when the Pentagon Papers were leaked to the New York Times by Daniel Ellsberg, both he and the newspaper made decisions to withhold some of the…
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