An attorney and a banker from Switzerland were indicted today in a federal case in Florida for allegedly helping wealthy Americans evade taxes by putting assets in secret Swiss bank…
More than 150 Americans with accounts at UBS AG are being investigated by federal authorities for potential tax fraud after a former employee of the Swiss bank helped point the…
Some appeals court judges are apparently becoming increasingly frustrated with a 1996 law restricting habeas review of state death penalty convictions, as they voice ringing disapproval in dissenting opinions.
As the Internal Revenue Service and a major Swiss bank continue to litigate over just how many names of secret UBS AG account-holders must be turned over to federal authorities,…
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…
In a sad day for a man who made history as the first black graduate of Stetson University’s law school and the first black judge in his county’s circuit court,…
A Georgia law firm used more than $1.3 million that was supposed to have been spent to file over 15,000 debt collection lawsuits for its own expenses, a client lawsuit…
Contrary to a recent New York Times report, the U.S. Department of Justice says it has no intention of backing off a high-profile federal lawsuit that seeks to force a…
Finding that United States and Nicaraguan counsel for plaintiff banana workers participated in a fraud on a California court, Judge Victoria Chaney today ordered that all defendants be reimbursed for…
A federal appeals court has upheld a sanction of more than $371,000 against Crowell & Moring partner Peter Ginsberg for “overzealous litigation tactics” and “inflammatory statements” made in the course…
A top federal prosecutor whose high-profile South Florida office won convictions of Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff and al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla, among other well-known cases, will soon be overseeing more…
Testifying in a co-defendant’s criminal trial earlier this year after he himself accepted a plea bargain, a Florida attorney said he didn’t realize that he was doing anything wrong as…