Updated: Their only crime was eating salmon. So execution, at least for now, is too harsh a punishment for up to 85 sea lions scheduled for extermination this year, in…
Updated: At least a dozen present and former attorneys at an Albany, N.Y., law firm are now reportedly being investigated by the state attorney general as part of an ongoing…
A computer hacker testified in a corporate-spying lawsuit Wednesday in California that a unit of News Corp. hired him to develop pirating software to penetrate a rival satellite service’s security…
The mother of the late Anna Nicole Smith has filed defamation suit in Texas against Smith’s former lawyer and several media organizations, including the popular celebrity gossip site TMZ.com.
A nonprofit publisher of legal self-help volumes intended for incarcerated criminals has sued Massachusetts over a claimed state ban on distribution of its books throughout the prison system.
Murat Kurnaz is a German man who spent five years in the custody of the U.S. and its allies and is still considered an enemy combatant even now that he…
Republican heavyweights allegedly tried to use their influence with the White House to get U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald removed from office as he was pursuing a politically charged case against…
When struggling companies go under in a big way, bankruptcy trustees today are increasingly looking to their accountants and lawyers to ante up at least some of the missing money
Within hours of a federal court ruling that a Louisiana school district violated the First Amendment by allowing Gideons International to pass out pocket bibles to fifth-graders last May, a…
Former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather won a minor legal victory in a case in which he says he wants only the true story to come out about President…
When Tennessee Judge Hamilton Gayden presided over a case involving of stockholders in a class action against CVS/Caremark, he wanted to see someone benefit besides the lawyers. After all, only…
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