A lawsuit contending that federal regulations contravene legislative intent by encouraging the foreclosure of reverse mortgages against borrowers’ surviving spouses has been given a green light by a federal appeals…
A Kentucky lawyer who wanted to work in the administrative office of the United States Courts in Washington, D.C., was summarily rejected when she applied because she doesn’t live in…
Updated: A partner in a Panama law firm has sued the Huffington Post in federal court in Washington, D.C., contending that he wasn’t the author of a blog post published…
A lawyer representing Tampa socialite Jill Kelley, whose complaint about threatening emails wound up linking her name to a sex scandal that led to David Petraeus’ resignation from his position…
Warning a former client of Dickstein Shapiro that future sanctions could be forthcoming if continues to disregard local discovery rules in Washington, D.C., before making dubious motions, a federal judge…
Found guilty by a federal judge after a bench trial earlier this year of participating in a conspiracy to present faked evidence in a client’s drug trial, a longtime criminal…
Unsealing a significant chunk of legal history, a federal judge has OK’d a history professor’s request for access to the criminal trial records of two men prosecuted in 1973 in…
A Washington, D.C., law firm retained by Bradley Birkenfeld to help him tell U.S. authorities how a Swiss bank was aiding Americans in evading taxes is now seeking a 12.5…
Guantanimo Bay: Of the terrorism suspects detained at the U.S. military prison, 600 have been transferred to other countries and 169 remain, according to an analysis by the New York Times and NPR. AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File
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A federal court ruled that the state of Texas could not show that a new voter ID law would not harm the voting rights of its minorities and struck down…
Federal rules which require graphic warning images on cigarette packages were struck down today in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, on the basis that the…
A federal appeals court on Friday rejected a challenge to new Environmental Protection Agency regulations allowing for higher concentrations of corn-based ethanol in gasoline.