When his legal defense didn’t succeed, a Massachusetts physician who was found civilly liable for $15 million in his girlfriend’s strangling death allegedly turned to illegal tactics to try to…
A railroad company has settled with the government for a record $102 million in a case over a 2000 wildfire in a forest north of Sacramento, Calif., that was especially…
A disgraced Olympic champion sprinter who lost her five gold medals due to her eventually admitted use of performance-enhancing steroids is seeking a pardon or a commutation of her six-month…
Considerably expanding what some understood to be the scope of permissible malpractice claim against a law firm after the underlying case at issue has settled, a New Jersey appeals court…
An “obsessed” former colleague of a Philadelphia television news anchor who allegedly illegally hacked into her e-mail and helped get her fired from her job by revealing personal information to…
A troubled Ohio teenager has been sentenced to a one-year prison term for sending a threatening letter to a Licking County juvenile judge last year punctuated with his own blood.
When a California appeals court judge sought a $1 million mortgage and a $900,000 credit line to refinance his 8,200-square-foot home in January 2004, a loan officer for Countrywide Financial…
A jury has deadlocked in the trial of homeless man accused of killing a former president of the California State Bar during a sexual tryst two years ago.
A federal judge has criticized class action law firm Labaton Sucharow for seeking to add new and unrelated claims to a lawsuit against American International Group.
A military judge’s evidence ruling yesterday in the case of Osama bin Laden’s former driver could have an impact in the case against the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11…
Putting an end to a 13-year manhunt that began with his indictment by a United Nations war crimes tribunal, authorities this evening arrested Radovan Karadzic in Serbia. The 63-year-old is…
A renowned longtime trial lawyer, Gerry Spence probably knows his way around the courtroom as well as anyone. But, until recently, the 80-year-old was only vaguely aware…
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