A federal judge today began hearing arguments in a constitutional case initially brought pro se by a Georgia sex offender over a new state law requiring him to provide his…
After someone started ranting online against Liskula Cohen, the model complained of defamation and managed to get a court order requiring Google to identify the once-anonymous blogger.
Updated: Supporters of a 17-year-old runaway gathered in and around a central Florida courthouse today in anticipation of a hearing this afternoon at which an Orlando juvenile court judge is…
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…
Federal agents taught a blogger Hal Turner what he could and could not say on Internet websites as they trained him to be an “agent provacateur” pushing others to behave…
After an Oregon state-court judge ruled in June that a Portland ordinance banning individuals from sitting or lying on the sidewalk was unconstitutional, authorities are reportedly trying new tactics to…
The controversial disorderly conduct arrest last month of Harvard University professor at his own Cambridge, Mass., home continues to create fallout far from the original scene, two weeks after officials…
A federal judge has upheld most of the new restrictions on advertising by Louisiana lawyers, but struck down two rules regulating Internet advertising.
U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman said Louisana’s…
Aggravated by the recent arrest of Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. for disorderly conduct in Cambridge, Mass., a 33-year-old Washington, D.C., lawyer says he chanted “I hate police”…
The “beer summit” called by President Barack Obama to help resolve racism concerns sparked by the disorderly conduct arrest of a Harvard University professor at his own home by Cambridge,…
It appears that much-publicized litigation brought by an administrative law judge in Washington, D.C., over a dry cleaner’s alleged loss of his suit trousers and the jurist’s subsequent loss of…
Lawyers for the city of Clearwater had said the Florida municipality was on solid legal ground when it fined a local bait shop over a fish mural painted on an…
Despite a defense lawyer’s argument that extremist blogger Hal Turner isn’t a danger to others and even once alerted authorities to a potential assassination plot against President Barack Obama, a…
In the initial heat of battle over his controversial arrest last week for disorderly conduct at his own home in Cambridge, Mass., a prominent Harvard University scholar had talked about…
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