A recent law school graduate who lined up a client for a wrongful conviction case early on in her legal career, then helped him file suit in federal court and…
Once a highly regarded federal prosecutor and Colorado defense attorney, Robert McAllister is now charged in a 29-count fraud and money-laundering case.
A federal appeals court in Denver today gave a green light to a lawsuit over an Oklahoma voter initiative that approved a state constitutional amendment banning state courts from looking…
More than 500 people were mistakenly arrested and jailed in Denver over a recent seven-year period, and the actual number may be much higher than can now be documented because…
Updated: The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Secret Service agents who arrested an environmental consultant at a Dick Cheney appearance have immunity from suit.
Justice Clarence Thomas sees a lost opportunity to “provide clarity to an establishment clause jurisprudence in shambles” in the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal today to take up a case involving…
A retired former partner at a well-known business law firm with offices in Utah and Nevada has had a rough go of it after he stopped taking his medication, his…
Saying that nearly $16,000 in fines imposed on an Illinois lawyer for unethical conduct in earlier federal cases didn’t have the desired deterrent effect, a federal appeals court has now…
Seeking to save money and make it easier to monitor inmate mail, a Utah jail earlier this year started limiting mail to postcards, except for communications with lawyers.
An Oklahoma senator reportedly blocked the University of Tulsa’s law dean for a federal appellate nomination because she has a background in international law.
Rejecting a shopping mall store’s arguments that a porch-like front doorway with two steps was in compliance with disability laws because handicapped-accessible doors were right at hand, too, a federal…
The nomination of a former Kansas attorney general to a federal appeals court has been scuttled amid controversy over his stance on Obama’s health care law and an abortion clinic…
A man who made headlines in recent years ago after being criminally charged for passing himself off as a decorated American war hero reportedly went on to pretend to be…
Finding that there was no legitimate basis for a Louisiana law that makes it a crime for companies not licensed as funeral directors to sell caskets, a federal judge has…
