In a hard-fought municipal ordinance case pitting a Michigan man, supported by local environmental groups, against his township’s governing officials, a local judge has weighed in against the flourishing so-called…
Already serving a five-year prison term for his role in a scheme to bribe a Mississippi judge concerning a dispute over Hurricane Katrina legal fees, once-renowned trial attorney Richard “Dickie”…
Although it’s not yet a final decision, a special panel of federal judges ruled today that California must begin planning to release tens of thousands of state prison inmates over…
In a rare real-life, high-stakes demonstration of the prisoner’s dilemma—two suspects can both escape consequences, but only by trusting each other not to snitch to authorities—a judge in Malaysia has…
Accused hedge fund manager Bernard Madoff has agreed that he won’t contest civil claims by the Securities and Exchange Commission that his investment advisory fund was a fraud.
In what is apparently the first posthumous DNA exoneration in the history of Texas, a state court judge today ordered that Timothy Cole’s rape conviction should be reversed and removed…
Lawyers who won $183,000 for the family of a man who died in 2005 after being Tasered dozens of times by Salinas, Calif., police have now been awarded $1.4 million…
Ruling yesterday on free-speech grounds, the New Jersey Supreme Court said a municipal ordinance banning a labor union from displaying a 10-foot-tall inflatable rat at protest sites was a violation…
In the course of another investigation, the Orange County, Calif., district attorney’s office focused on a different issue at an Upland lawyer’s satellite office in Westminster.
Like another alleged white-collar criminal who has been much in the news lately, attorney Marc Dreier will soon be out of jail and under house arrest. He is to be…
After news that two now-suspended senior Luzerne County judges have agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges, Pennsylvania state lawmakers plan to discuss possible compensation for juveniles that the two…
A verdict for Chevron in a suit brought on behalf of Nigerian protest victims has been named the top California defense verdict of 2008 by a West Coast legal publication.
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