Officials at the Michigan High School Athletic Association are still reeling, weeks after a federal judge awarded $7.4 million in legal fees to the prevailing plaintiff in a 10-year-old case…
Updated: As the state of Texas proceeds with DNA tests this week to try to determine exactly who parents and siblings are in a controversial custody case that, at last…
A Manhattan judge has refused to dismiss a defamation suit brought against a New York legal aid lawyer, because he wrote it as a friend of the court rather than…
A Wisconsin judge acted appropriately when he allowed his own mother to serve as a juror in a criminal traffic case in his courtroom, a state appeals court has ruled.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled today that former EPA head Christine Todd Whitman cannot be held liable for saying that the air near the collapsed World…
Add another issue to the list of troubles created by the subprime mortgage meltdown: unpaid condominium association fees. In Florida, half of the nearly 500 condo and homeowner associations that…
So far, the world’s largest welding-equipment maker—Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc.—has escaped the fate of tobacco and asbestos companies by winning victory after victory against plaintiffs who claim its products cause…
Just in time for Earth Day 2008, a Gilroy, Calif.-based garlic-processing company has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought after the company let chunks of garlic spill…
Two Florida business coalitions have filed suit over a new law that will allow workers and other citizens to bring guns onto private property in their individual vehicles, starting July…
More than nine years ago, a forensic anthropologist was called to a creek bed where hunters in Henry County, Ky., had just found the skeletal remains of a body. Handing…
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