A former law dean at Kaplan Inc. has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for sending threatening messages concerning the online educational institution and its…
Physicians fighting a Florida law that restricts them from asking all patients about guns or dropping a patient simply because he or she has a firearm could be facing an…
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a sexual harassment suit against a South Florida restaurant, contending that it discriminated against employees by allowing a Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy…
Briefly banned from practicing bankruptcy law in the Middle District of Florida, after one of its lawyers aggravated a federal judge, an Orlando law firm is now back in the…
Saying that lies upon lies underpinning a massive mortgage fraud had devastated Atlanta’s housing market, a federal appeals court yesterday upheld the conviction and 28-year prison term imposed upon its…
A former client has filed a federal civil racketeering class action against a Georgia personal injury firm, contending that it cheated up to 200 or more plaintiffs in Vioxx litigation…
The third federal appeals court to hear a challenge to the Obama administration’s health care law questioned whether Congress had the constitutional authority for most people to buy health insurance…
A federal appeals court will allow a recording of oral arguments in a challenge to the constitutionality of the health-care law on June 8, but it won’t be posting it…
A federal appeals court has overturned convictions on two bribery counts against former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman and former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy.
Yesterday, when Florida attorney Michael D. Walsh didn’t show up to represent the alleged ringleader in a Fort Lauderdale mortgage fraud trial, a federal judge scheduled a show-cause hearing today…
A former name partner in the law firm of convicted Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein is going to be able to settle a $10 million suit filed by the bankruptcy trustee…
Updated: A Florida woman has filed a federal suit against a Fort Lauderdale law firm known for its mortgage foreclosure work on behalf of lenders, contending that Ben-Ezra & Katz…