Overruling a professional disciplinary board, the Delaware Supreme Court has publicly reprimanded an attorney over the language he used in a legal brief.
Among other questionable language, the brief said…
Arguing that the U.S. war on Iraq is illegal, a Canadian lawyer is now seeking asylum there for some three dozen American soldiers who have deserted their units and fled…
Hotel heiress Paris Hilton, sentenced last week to 45 days in jail for probation violation, has apparently hired a new lawyer, but reports that she has fired her original counsel…
A federal judge dismissed all charges Tuesday against Luis Posada Carriles, speaking in scathing terms of the investigation and prosecution that put the Cuban exile and militant in jail on…
Putting one’s hand on the Bible to swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth is a relic of history in most American courtrooms today.…
As Lelon DeWitt was undergoing quadruple bypass heart surgery in Elkhart, Indiana in 2004, a subprime mortgage broker caught up with his wife, in the hospital waiting room. It was…
A Manhattan attorney who says her back was broken when she was crushed by an apparently drunken and unruly 300-pound fan who fell on her at a New York Mets…
Rhythm and blues singer R. Kelly still hasn’t been tried in the child pornography case brought against him five years ago. But time is on his side, experts say.
A defense lawyer yelled and pounded his fist on the table, prompting a scolding yesterday from the judge presiding over the murder trial of Phil Spector.