A special master has recommended a $25,000 sanction against a San Francisco plaintiffs lawyer for mishandling a fee request in litigation against FedEx.
Special Master Edward Swanson said lawyer Waukeen…
A federal trial judge should recuse himself from her client’s case, a New York lawyer for a reputed mob boss has told a New York City-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court…
Plaintiffs lawyers have been pursuing a few dozen potential class actions since March over auction-rate securities allegedly sold to investors based on promises that they could easily resell them. In…
An identical twin who discovered, as an adult, that she had been sent home from a Canary Islands hospital in Spain with the wrong family has sued over the alleged…
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against a junior high school in Harper Lee’s hometown of Monroeville, Ala.
A New York lawyer has filed a $1 million suit against Delta Air Lines that claims the carrier ruined a planned dream trip to Argentina for his mother’s 80th birthday.
A lawsuit filed last week against Morgan Lewis & Bockius and one of its partners claims the partner made mistakes in a patent application and then waited too long to…
A federal probation office report is recommending that Melvyn Weiss be sentenced to a 33-month prison term on Monday for his admitted role in a secret payments scheme to class…
An Ohio judge is facing potential discipline after being twice conned by a former client in connection with business ventures, according to court records.
Updated: A Florida woman is considering a lawsuit after a teacher allowed students to take a vote on whether her misbehaving autistic son should remain in class.
Authorities say more than 400 struggling California homeowners, many of them Spanish-speaking, were tricked into paying up to $10,000 for worthless “land grants” and other bogus measures claimed to provide…
The 63-year-old spouse of a former senior partner at a British law firm has been jailed, and her husband has lost his job over the nearly $160,000 she reportedly stole…
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