Federal authorities had warrants authorizing the seizure of steroid-test results for less than a dozen Major League Baseball players. But, in “an obvious case of deliberate overreaching by the government…
The federal judge who wanted to know more about why shareholders weren’t told of a plan to pay bonuses to Merrill Lynch executives isn’t satisfied with the answers.
A trial judge’s grant of summary judgment for defendant Novell in a key portion of a dispute over the ownership of the Unix code was overturned yesterday by a federal…
After a federal judge in Scranton refused to reconsider his earlier decision to reject their guilty pleas, two former Luzerne County, Pa., judges withdrew them today.
Attorneys for Microsoft are presumably busy this weekend, following a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to grant the computer goliath’s request for an expedited…
The former general counsel of LoJack Corp. violated a divorce decree when he failed to pay his ex-wife her share of the money he earned in 2006 from exercising stock…
A former child actor who now works as an advocate for other children in the entertainment industry can proceed with a lawsuit seeking a guardian to protect the children of…
Applying what some might consider an unduly strict interpretation of conflict-of-interest standards, a federal magistrate judge in Massachusetts has disqualified Lichten & Liss-Riordan from continuing to represent the plaintiff in…
An attorney and a banker from Switzerland were indicted today in a federal case in Florida for allegedly helping wealthy Americans evade taxes by putting assets in secret Swiss bank…
After nearly a week of deliberation, a federal jury in Brooklyn, N.Y., today convicted two lawyers in a witness-tampering case that reportedly could put them in prison for life.
A judge in West Virginia has been disqualified from continuing to hear a case alleging groundwater pollution because he once represented one of the defendants—while still a practicing lawyer and…
Swiss bank UBS is expected to disclose the names and account information for more than 4,450 Americans suspected of trying to evade taxes with secret offshore accounts.
A federal judge in Philadelphia has agreed to direct Westlaw and Lexis to pull eight of his published rulings in an attractive nuisance case to honor the terms of a…
A federal judge in Kentucky today sentenced to ex-lawyers to 20- and 25-year prison terms for bilking their former clients out of $94 million in fen-phen settlement money.
Kenneth Loewinger has written a treatise on landlord-tenant law in Washington, D.C., that is relied on by judges. But the veteran practitioner, who has been a lawyer since 1971, was…
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