A federal court has revived a class action lawsuit over a unique Wisconsin attorney admission rule that admits newly minted graduates of state law schools to practice without requiring them…
New York City, without admitting liability, will pay a $10,000 settlement to a fan who was ejected from a New York Yankees game in August after attempting to leave his…
Federal jurors in New York sided with litigator David Boies yesterday and rejected a claim that his client, the former chief executive of American International Group, had improperly transferred $4.3…
Lawyers for the Recording Industry Association of America want a federal judge to bar Jammie Thomas-Rasset—who was ordered last month to pay $1.92 million…
Defense counsel for an attorney and former New Jersey lawmaker accused in a child pornography case must be given access to the images allegedly found on Neil Cohen’s computers, a…
A federal judge in Los Angeles reportedly has said he intends to acquit a Missouri mother accused of helping to drive a neighboring teen to suicide by participating in a…
Billionaire R. Allen Stanford had hoped to live with his girlfriend in a luxury apartment in Houston, albeit wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet, while preparing for his trial on federal…
Democrat Al Franken edged out his Republican opponent in a hard-fought election for a U.S. Senate seat by 312 votes, the Minnesota Supreme Court decided today in a unanimous ruling…
Siding with the world’s biggest health care company, a federal jury in Texas awarded a record-breaking $1.67 billion today to a Johnson & Johnson unit after five hours of deliberation.
Convicted swindler Bernard Madoff was sentenced to a 150-year prison term today for operating a massive Ponzi scheme under the guise of a hedge fund that may have bilked investors…
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