The FBI announced Thursday that 243 people, including nearly 50 health-care professionals, have been arrested in a record Medicare and Medicaid billing-fraud bust.
The American Bar Association filed an amicus brief (PDF) on Thursday asking the nation’s top court to overturn Florida law allowing a jury to recommend the death penalty by…
The actions of a federal judge arrested for an alleged domestic assault may have been grounds for impeachment, according to an order by a federal judicial council.
A federal judge has ordered a Florida foreclosure-rescue law firm, its former managing partner and affiliated companies to pay a $27.7 million judgment for charging homeowners illegal upfront fees and…
Corrected: U.S. District Judge Mark Fuller of Alabama has announced he will resign effective Aug. 1, nearly a year after he was arrested for allegedly assaulting his then-wife at…
Two former employees of Butler & Hosch have filed a WARN suit seeking back pay and benefits from the dissolving law firm for themselves and nearly 700 other workers.
Jailed for the past week after being held in contempt and charged with interfering with child custody, a Florida mom on Friday tearfully agreed to the circumcision of her four-year-old…
Two men stole tens of millions of dollars from Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines over a 20-year period through a relatively simple billing fraud, authorities say.
A federal appeals court has upheld an attorney-client privilege ruling by a trial court judge, putting a Georgia criminal defense attorney in an uncomfortable position.
More than a decade ago, a dispute over the condition of skintight underwear performers at Walt Disney World were required to don beneath their costumes led to new contract provisions…
A Florida man has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering in federal court in Tampa, concerning his role in a scheme that scammed law firms.
During his trial for selling guns illegally, a client of Georgia defense attorney Amy Lee Copeland’s watched a federal prosecutor challenge his girlfriend’s credibility as a witness.
A federal judge in West Palm Beach, Florida, has struck third-party allegations concerning claimed sexual activities by Prince Andrew and attorney Alan Dershowitz from an ongoing lawsuit against the U.S.…