A potential juror in Florida ended up in a jail cell rather than the courtroom when she apparently called the judge an asshole for refusing to dismiss her from jury…
Proponents of the right to carry concealed weapons at Atlanta’s international airport got some high-profile political support for their federal lawsuit.
Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue said new legislation that allows…
A federal appeals court has ruled that scientist Steven Hatfill is a public figure and his libel suit against the New York Times for identifying him as an anthrax suspect…
The judge overseeing the prosecution of Osama bin Laden’s driver has told lawyers in the case to work out an arrangement to allow requested testimony by the mastermind of the…
Richard Bryan Smith happens to share the same name and date of birth as a convicted sex offender. And that has led to several cases of mistaken identity, despite the…
In a civil theft verdict that could hit two attorneys with some $2 million in damages, a Florida jury found late last month that two longtime associates of a well-known…
A North Carolina judge has declined to reduce the $500,000 bail for a 76-year-old Georgia woman accused of hiring a hit man to kill her fourth husband.
In a 2,455-page indictment submitted to a Turkish court today, the government has charged 86 alleged members of a militant secular group with plotting to overthrow the country’s Islamist government.
The former dean of Pace law school has obtained the Internet provider addresses of online critics who alleged he and his wife paid off a mayor to secure permits for…
A 40-year-old Wisconsin woman who admittedly had sex with a 16-year-old high school classmate of her daughter, while she was serving as his tutor, has been sentenced to a one-year…
A federal case has been dropped concerning a Florida attorney who spent a night in jail earlier this year for allegedly assaulting a federal prosecutor with an overly aggressive “handshake.”
A Massachusetts woman in a same-sex relationship who married her partner as soon as it was possible to do so in the state cannot act as a plaintiff in a…
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