Already dealing with a deluge of mortgage foreclosures, courts in Massachusetts now have a new problem. And, although litigation over the issue is farther along there than in a number…
Anthony Marshall repeatedly took advantage the failing mental abilities of his elderly mother, Brooke Astor, diverting millions from the legendary New York socialite’s estate, a jury decided…
A federal judge has ruled against a New York law firm in a hard-fought case over its debt-collection practices, finding after a bench trial that Upton Cohen & Slamowitz conducted…
Updated: Trying to help a struggling jury get to the finish line, the judge in high-profile New York criminal trial over Brooke Astor’s estate planning has said he will accept…
A Georgia man who claimed the treatment he receive for erectile dysfunction left him permanently scarred has been awarded more than $9 million in damages.
A former Wal-Mart pharmacist who contended she was fired on a trumped-up disciplinary charge after she complained she was paid less than male counterparts by the giant retailer is entitled…
Attorney Orly Taitz was already facing a threatened $10,000 sanction from an aggravated federal judge last month, after he told her never to pursue a “frivolous” suit again and she…
After embezzling some $88,000 from his ex-employer to purchase scratch-off lottery tickets, a former radio executive got some good news during a recent court hearing:
In what reportedly is the first such use of the Internet authorized by any court in the country, the United Kingdom’s High Court has permitted an injunction on an anonymous…
When Amazon eliminated a George Orwell book from users’ Kindles earlier this year, after discovering the electronic text had been sold without proper authorization, it also eliminated Justin Gawronski’s homework.
A well-known civil rights attorney and sports agent was disbarred by the Washington Supreme Court today, based on what its written opinion described as a pattern of…
Attorney Rufus Cook can’t continue to represent a defendant accused of defrauding real estate investors because he “played a major role in these underlying transactions,” a federal judge in Chicago…
A former chief financial officer of Broadcom Corp. says he expected his 2006 conversations with Irell & Manella about stock options grants to be confidential, because the law firm was…
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