But for the office and background of the man who wrote it, a pointed blog post about the Justice Department’s new clemency effort to get nonviolent offenders out of…
A $900,000 jury award in an employment discrimination case, including $600,000 in punitive damages, has been reversed by a federal appeals court because a lawyer for the plaintiff during closing…
A former employee of a Missouri law firm was sentenced Thursday to a little over three years in federal prison and ordered to pay restitution for embezzling $212,000 between 2006…
A federal appeals court has affirmed a grant of summary judgment to the employer in a sex- and pregnancy-discrimination case, agreeing with the trial court that not having a lactation…
It isn’t just individuals who are taking legal action over a massive data breach in November and December that reportedly involved at least 40 million and perhaps as many as…
Missouri inmate Herbert Smulls was executed Wednesday night after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a stay of execution amid questions about the execution drug and its source.
The stunning discovery in 1990 of a largely complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton near an Indian reservation in South Dakota led to an epic legal battle as multiple parties argued over…
An attorney accused of helping a client who was once a successful real estate developer conceal a substantial sum of money in a law firm trust account has been convicted…
Hustler publisher Larry Flynt has spent decades in a wheelchair since being shot on March 6, 1978 as he stood on the steps of a Georgia courthouse in which he…
Blasted earlier this year by a federal judge in California over its handling of cases against alleged illegal downloaders of pornography, a Chicago-based law firm known for its mass copyright…