Considerably expanding what some understood to be the scope of permissible malpractice claim against a law firm after the underlying case at issue has settled, a New Jersey appeals court…
A gunmaker plans to present the plaintiffs who won a landmark U.S. Supreme Court right to bear arms ruling last month with commemorative revolvers engraved with the name of the…
A California jury has ruled that the popular Bratz doll was created by a designer when he was working for Mattel, a blow for the doll’s maker, Mattel rival MGA…
The creator of the Back Street Boys and ‘N Sync has been ordered to pay $300 million in restitution in a Ponzi scheme in which he reportedly netted more than…
In a civil theft verdict that could hit two attorneys with some $2 million in damages, a Florida jury found late last month that two longtime associates of a well-known…
A 40-year-old Wisconsin woman who admittedly had sex with a 16-year-old high school classmate of her daughter, while she was serving as his tutor, has been sentenced to a one-year…
A Massachusetts woman in a same-sex relationship who married her partner as soon as it was possible to do so in the state cannot act as a plaintiff in a…
A former municipal judge in Schererville, Ind., who funneled defendants’ fees to a driving school she secretly owned and demanded kickbacks from a counseling firm that worked with her court,…
Eight foster children, aged 5 to 12, who were sexually abused for an additional 18 months because of delayed follow-up by authorities are to get an $11 million settlement from…
In a case that lawyers hope will have a happier ending than that of another Florida 12-year-old convicted of murdering a much smaller child, a boy accused of beating a…
Former supermodel Christie Brinkley, 54, and her soon-to-be-ex-husband, Peter Cook, 49, suddenly reached a settlement of their ongoing divorce trial this morning after an all-night negotiating session.
Albert Woodfox, a former member of the Black Panthers, has been held in solitary confinement for more than 35 years for the 1972 murder of a Louisiana prison guard.
A federal judge has agreed to hold a hearing into a contention that a proposed $16 million Morgan Stanley racial discrimination settlement was “lawyer driven.”
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