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…
A federal judge overseeing the political corruption trial of the former governor of Illinois sent the jury home early today, after he and a defense lawyer clashed over what can…
In an apparent effort to extend the frontiers of defamation law where cyberbullying is concerned, a New York law firm sued four former classmates of an Oceanside High School student…
A well-known South Florida forensic accountant and attorney made a tearful apology in federal court in Miami on Friday before being sentenced to eight years for stealing millions, much of…
Whether you saw it as the “horrendous cyber-assault” claimed by Levinson Axelrod or simply an ex-associate’s legitimate expression of opinion, however unflattering, about the New Jersey law firm that formerly…
Hogan Lovells has sued a former client alleging failure to pay $666,000 in legal bills, but full details can’t be disclosed because of a restraining order issued by a Washington,…
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