A prosecutor’s unusual decision to pursue criminal charges against a group of high school classmates whose bullying allegedly resulted in the targeted 15-year-old’s suicide has sparked debate about how best…
Stephen Rawson knew he should have eaten more protein for breakfast. But as he felt himself beginning to pass out during oral arguments before the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of…
Federal authorities violated the law by wiretapping two United States lawyers for an Islamic charity without obtaining a warrant, a federal judge in San Francisco has just ruled.
A lawsuit filed in Ohio this week accuses two Baker Hostetler attorneys of supporting a fraud in which a former legal secretary for the firm allegedly scammed “investors” out of…
A federal jury in Utah has found that Novell Inc. owns the copyright to the Unix operating system, ending a longtime legal battle with the SCO Group Inc.
A Colorado lawyer will pay $50,000 and his law firm will post a “Service Animals Welcome” sign to settle a Justice Department complaint that he refused to allow a brain-damaged…
A Pennsylvania judge appointed by the state supreme court to review cases in a troubled county in which senior judges allegedly took what amounted to kickbacks for jailing juveniles has…
A lawsuit filed by the son of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani over his elimination from the Duke University golf team has been dismissed by a federal judge…
A man who says he suffers from “electromagnetic sensitivities” has sued a neighbor and now former friend in New Mexico state court, seeking $530,000 in damages and a court order…
Michael Jackson’s father plans to sue the doctor who was treating his son at the time of the famous pop singer’s death in Los Angeles last year, from what the…
An 11-year-old boy who police say shot and killed his father’s eight-months-pregnant girlfriend in the family home early last year will be tried as an adult in the homicides of…
A Georgia personal injury attorney initially accused of embezzling nearly $1 million from his law firm’s pension and retirement accounts was sentenced today to 21 months in federal prison after…
When U.S. District Judge John Coughenour handed down a 22-year prison sentence to “millennium bomber” Ahmed Ressam, more than a dozen death threats resulted, and he and his family had…
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