A California judge abused his discretion by effectively denying a tax attorney who took the Fifth during discovery in a civil case brought by a former client the opportunity to…
Only one legal group in California is suing to enforce the state’s unique voting rights law. And a key attorney in that group helped draft it and get it enacted.
Apple won a legal battle over the use of its operating system Friday, when a federal judge in San Francisco ruled that Psystar violated copyright law by selling its own…
A law firm has won a temporary restraining order from a state court judge preventing Nevada officials from enforcing new mortgage modification rules that impact private legal practice.
Describing a controversial federal judge’s accounting for a $33.8 million trust as “curious,” the 9th Circuit today called for another judge to provide an accounting of how the money was…
Reversing the drunken-driving conviction of a woman who wasn’t allowed to argue at trial that she had to flee a dangerous bar fight, the Montana Supreme Court has ruled that…
A marketing ploy by Universal Pictures has backfired, with the studio agreeing to pay $22,500 for creating fake news reports about alien abductions attributed to seven real media organizations in…
A lawyer representing other lawyers in an ongoing probe of New York pensions being paid to attorneys who alleged did government legal work as private practitioners while being reported as…
A juror caused consternation by sending a note to the judge in a fatal New York child-abuse case, asking for the name and number of the “cutie” assistant district attorney–and…
The chipmaker Intel has hired a new general counsel and reached an agreement to pay Advanced Micro Devices $1.25 billion ito resolve all antitrust and patent cross-license disputes between the…
A jury in an Arkansas capital case today found defendant Curtis Lavelle Vance guilty in the 2008 rape-murder of a well-known television personality, anchorwoman Anne Pressly of KATV.
A quadriplegic man has the right to own firearms, even though he can’t hold a gun or pull the trigger, a New Jersey judge has decided, overruling the local police…
When concerns are expressed that authorities are targeting the small fry rather than the big fish in mortgage-related fraud cases, a criminal prosecution of two former Bear Stearns hedge fund…
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