As oral arguments were being made today in an unusual lawsuit by New York’s top judge seeking an increase in judicial pay for the state’s jurists, law blogger Eric Turkewitz…
The embattled mayor of Detroit will probably rack up some $1 million in legal bills, observers predict, just defending himself in a criminal case related to his testimony in a…
A hearing-impaired Nebraska woman who can’t hear what is being said through a speaker has filed a discrimination suit against a McDonald’s in Lincoln, contending that the fast-food restaurant wouldn’t…
Admittedly not thinking about the consequences, a computing services manager for the University of Texas reportedly says he was the practical jokester who posted a fake Oklahoman article online under…
The creator of the Back Street Boys and ‘N Sync has been ordered to pay $300 million in restitution in a Ponzi scheme in which he reportedly netted more than…
In the final salvo in a bizarre case of puppy love in a small Texas town, a former mayor pleaded no contest yesterday to a misdemeanor count of filing a…
A veteran prosecutor in suburban Chicago has been suspended without pay for a month, starting yesterday, after her boss learned of her alleged undisclosed relationship with a police officer who…
In the wake of a series of revelations concerning secret accounts at UBS AG and other foreign banks, new rules are about to be released by the Internal Revenue Service…
Following a court hearing yesterday, a Milberg partner defended the law firm’s agreement to pay former firm leader Melvyn Weiss possibly tens of millions of dollars in unpaid fees.
Environmentalists, tourists and the descendants of public land donors in Michigan are celebrating a federal judge’s ruling that the U.S. Forest Service was wrong to allow a permit for oil…
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