Hiring—and trusting—a disbarred lawyer known for his 1980s involvement in a bizarre condoms-for-chickens scam was a mistake, a retired Michigan judge says.
“Former Clinton Township district court judge William Cannon…
A New Jersey lawyer who was disbarred for misappropriating mortgage settlement funds can’t be criminally convicted for the same conduct, a state appeals court ruled today.
An Orlando, Fla., woman who says riding the Tower of Terror relieves the excruciating pain of her abdominal lesions has sued after being barred from all Disney theme parks.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher was among the law firms donating pro bono assistance to six Alaska legislators seeking to block the Troopergate investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin.
The legal battle over an election recount waged by former Saturday Night Live comedian Al Franken has cost him $660,000 in legal fees, six times the amount spent by his…
The federal judge who oversaw the federal corruption case against Sen. Ted Stevens has set a Friday hearing on a new trial request that is based on an FBI agent’s…
In a week already packed with news about alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball during the past decade, another player has taken center stage.
Many wealthy investors who put their money into the $50 billion Ponzi scheme Bernard Madoff allegedly operated under the guise of a hedge fund may have lost virtually all their…
By voluntarily withdrawing from 77 personal injury cases against a Florida-based cruise line after his law firm was accused of bribing an employee for inside information, attorney Jay Wingate was…
A Texas girl, then 12, who was allegedly accused by Galveston police of being a prostitute and assaulted when she stepped outside her family home has herself escaped conviction on…
Seemingly taken in a routine burglary at an employee’s home, a laptop computer stolen from a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs analyst in 2006—and recovered later that year, apparently without…
There were already hard feelings about Michael Hausfeld’s departure in November, along with 17 antitrust lawyers, from the class action firm he founded.
In a hard-fought municipal ordinance case pitting a Michigan man, supported by local environmental groups, against his township’s governing officials, a local judge has weighed in against the flourishing so-called…
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