A Minnesota tax protester who tried to haul the federal judge assigned to his case into “common law court” now has an extra conviction on his record as a result.
Developing: Doubling the three months recommended by prosecutors, a federal judge today sentenced a former name partner of the New York City-based law firm now known as Milberg to half…
A convicted sexual predator who previously worked as a deputy for the Polk County Sheriff’s Office may have caused a fatal accident in Florida for which a civilian has been…
Thirty-six delivery workers at a Vietnamese restaurant with two locations in Manhattan were awarded $4.6 million for wage and overtime violations in a suit handled pro bono by Davis Polk…
Citigroup has been awarded $364.2 million for its counterclaim against Parmalat claiming the Italian dairy producer defrauded the financial services firm in an accounting scandal.
Two law firms are likely to reap big fees from the $894 million settlement of lawsuits over the withdrawn painkiller Bextra and a similar anti-inflammatory medication, Celebrex, that is still…
A federal appeals court yesterday upheld a $3.1 million award against the U.S. government to the family of a Quincy, Mass., fisherman killed in 1984 by leaders of the Winter…
Ending, at least for now, a challenge by the Ohio Republican Party to the Ohio’s secretary of state’s plan for handling new voter registrations, the U.S. Supreme Court today vacated…
Two Texas brothers who won a $1.7 civil rights settlement in a false arrest case that brought down the local district attorney are now suing their own lawyer.
An early winner of the CBS Survivor television reality show says its producer promised to pay the tax on his winnings, after he caught employees smuggling food to other contestants…
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