Still reeling from months of controversy over Detroit’s former mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, who resigned earlier this month after agreeing to a plea deal in a perjury case, the city apparently…
In an about-face, the federal government has agreed to loan the American Insurance Group $85 billion in return for a nearly 80 percent ownership interest in the company, prompting debate…
The husband of Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has been subpoenaed, along with aides who have refused to cooperate in an investigation of whether she improperly…
Despite a mandatory evacuation order for Galveston, Texas, as Hurricane Ike was about to strike, there’s one group of residents that, as of 10 a.m. today, hadn’t yet complied—about 1,000…
Underlining the risk to lawyers who are suspected of crossing the line from client representation to assisting in alleged criminal conduct, a Washington state newspaper reports that the office and…
A federal government office charged with overseeing the collection of some $4 billion in royalty payments by oil companies to the U.S. government allegedly operated more like an out-of-control fraternity…
John Lambert was in the Cook County Jail because he was an addict. And, thinking that he couldn’t abuse drugs or alcohol while he was there, his family didn’t bail…
A 31-year-old prohibition against adoptions of children by same-sex couples in Florida has been held unconstitutional by a trial judge in Monroe County.
Plaintiffs securities law firm Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins filed suit against Fannie Mae just one day after its takeover by the government was announced.
A former colleague says the general counsel of Fannie Mae is well-suited to help restore confidence at the mortgage giant taken over by the federal government last weekend, if she…
Updated: A report yesterday that United Airlines had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy sent the company’s stock plunging from over $12 to less than $3, in under an hour, before…
Faced with mounting legal bills and a deluge of unfavorable publicity as he fought a perjury and obstruction of justice case, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick decided he had to try…