The lying and obstruction convictions of David Safavian, a former White House procurement official involved in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, were upheld today by the U.S. Circuit Court of…
A 64-year-old criminal defense attorney in Washington, D.C., has been accused, along with two private investigators, of fabricating evidence in an effort to help a client win an acquittal in…
A federal appeals court has reinstated the manslaughter indictments of four former Blackwater security guards accused of firing on unarmed Iraqi civilians and killing 17 people in September 2007.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., is going to do an in camera review of DLA Piper materials sought by the defense team representing renowned former major-league pitcher Roger Clemens…
Saying that a claim of tortious interference with client relations was too speculative and that it would be inappropriate for one federal district court to tell other federal district courts…
A Harvard Law School graduate was chided by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., last week for making a “garbled” filing in a personal lawsuit concerning a mortgage foreclosure dispute.
In a ruling last week that could point the way toward the final chapters of a seven-year litigation saga, the chief U.S. District Court judge in Washington, D.C., granted a…
A federal appeals court considering a challenge to full body scanners on Thursday focused on government public comment rules rather than constitutional issues.
Adding nearly two years to the sentence recommended by prosecutors, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., today sentenced a former Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Algeria to 5 and…
In the latest twist in a hard-fought international environmental case that reportedly could win a megabillions verdict for the plaintiffs, a federal judge in New York has granted a temporary…
Last week, Chevron Corp. filed a federal civil racketeering lawsuit in New York against the plaintiffs in a hard-fought multi-billion-dollar Ecuador environmental case, alleging that they conspired to manufacture and…