The criminal case against the combative and controversial lawyer Geoffrey Fieger on campaign finance charges ended in acquittal last year in federal court in…
The researcher who is the inspiration for the Fox TV show Lie to Me worries that viewers who become jurors will be misled into believing that they can detect lies.
A jury reached a verdict yesterday in the trial of two tenants accused of illegally creating extra rooms that doomed two New York firefighters in the so-called Black Sunday blaze…
A top personal injury firm in Mississippi has settled a $189 million lawsuit by a tire company that claimed a leaked affidavit disparaged the manufacturer and violated an employee agreement.
Researchers have found in an initial experiment that the brain’s analytical and emotional centers are both active in volunteers asked to determine criminal punishment.
Updated: Already facing an unprecedented criminal case concerning his alleged harassment of his former case manager, U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent was reportedly federally indicted again late today on new…
If recent jury verdicts are any indication, it is good to be a plaintiffs employment discrimination lawyer these days—at least if the case gets to trial:
A man who murdered a judge and others in a Georgia courthouse killing spree has been sentenced to life in prison rather than the death penalty that prosecutors sought.
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