A former suburban Philadelphia prosecutor whose girlfriend died last year as he drove away during a drunken argument has been acquitted of vehicular homicide, but found guilty of lesser charges.
Asking a Missouri judge “Are you a pedophile?” was but one of the “rude and angry” comments that reportedly helped persuade the jurist to slap a 120-day contempt sentence on…
There is Scrabulous news today for some 500,000 aficionados of the popular computerized word game that was played on the Internet by some 450,000 Facebook users each day.
Adding another lawsuit to the mortgage foreclosure that entertainer Ed McMahon is facing, two New York law firms have reportedly sued the former sidekick to late-night television host Johnny Carson,…
Florida trial lawyer Willie Gary has submitted two tapes to a court overseeing a civil suit alleging he raped a woman. The two DVDs show his accuser having sex with…
A 90-day contempt term for failing to pay child support has now been transformed into an indefinite prison stay for a New York man accused of plotting to get a…
Corrections Corp. of America, a private company that runs state prisons in Tennessee, is subject to the state’s open records law, a Chancery Court judge has ruled, because it is…
A teenage son who allegedly murdered his father, a Maryland lawyer, his mother and two younger brothers as they slept earlier this year will be tried as an adult, a…
Video footage taken by a Court TV camera as a witness was testifying last year in the murder trial of legendary music producer Phil Spector probably will be admitted in…
A lawyer for an Islamic nonprofit group is citing an FBI official’s ABA speech in a new lawsuit that claims the government illegally wiretapped a lawyer’s conversations in a probe…
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has agreed to pay San Diego $2.8 million to settle a malpractice suit that contended the law firm failed to uncover the extent of the city’s…
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