A Texas defense lawyer representing a client in a DUI case was jailed briefly last week after he allegedly made a lewd gesture to let the judge know what he…
Zach Scruggs, the son and law partner of famed Mississippi plaintiffs attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in a judicial bribery case that also brought…
Updated: In much-awaited testimony in the wiretapping and racketeering trial of a so-called private investigator to the stars, the chairman of Paramount Pictures told a federal jury today that he…
A former top aide to to Vice President Dick Cheney was disbarred today by a Washington, D.C., appeals court because of his convictions last year for perjury and obstruction of…
A pigeon lover who feeds the birds daily in his Queens backyard decided to fight a public health inspector’s finding that he was creating a nuisance. And he’s had some…
The U.S. Supreme Court issued an important decision yesterday emphasizing the importance of eliminating racial bias in jury selection, according to the lawyer for a black murder defendant who won…
Updated: Pioneering securities class-action lawyer Melvyn Weiss has agreed to pay $10 million in fines and penalties and to serve up to 33 months in prison to resolve charges that…
An unusual libel case filed by a New York lawyer over a fictional portrayal in a television show of an attorney he says is recognizable as himself has surmounted its…
In 1861, during the early years of the Civil War, the city of Tampa, Fla., apparently ran short of cash. So officials borrowed the then-significant sum of $299.58 from storekeeper…
When Katherine Clifton told Seattle area authorities last year that she had been raped, she was “an extremely articulate and credible victim. There was no reason to suspect she wasn’t…
A former high-school history teacher who made a fortune trading Latin American bonds during the 1980s anted up a highly unusual $200,000 to bail 40 strangers out of jail last…
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