The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled a trial court erred when it allowed a prosecutor to remove a black juror partly on the ground that he appeared nervous.
Administration officials have three days to draft arguments opposing a federal magistrate’s suggestion that they should copy e-mails on the hard drives of executive office computers.
Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines claims in a lawsuit that Miami lawyer Jay Wingate should give up about $1 million in attorney fees earned in worker-injury settlements based on confidential company…
A judge in New York state has refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought by three skinny-dipping young women who claim observers on shore hid their clothes and then “pummeled” one…
A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that a judge was too quick to dismiss a malpractice suit against Drinker Biddle. The firm is accused of failing to find an…
A former partner who claims Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal owes him $8.5 million testified last week that the firm took him off a huge contingency case and…
A phone call from a wealthy social acquaintance led to what presumably must be the biggest case in one 37-year-old Washington, D.C., lawyer’s professional life. Alan Gura was arguing yesterday…
In what the American Civil Liberties Union is billing as a first-in-the-nation lawsuit, the civil rights organization has filed a complaint against a South Florida school district contending that it…
A lawyer who won a $1.7 million settlement for two brothers in a high-profile Texas civil rights case that brought down the local DA is now seeking $4.4 million in…
They’re reportedly the worst of the worst in Los Angeles County, owing between $63,000 and $427,000 in unpaid child support concerning a total of 17 children.
In the short run, the story of the successfully averted almost-collapse of the nation’s fifth-largest investment bank is a tale of triumph over near-disaster. But, in the long run, it…
Lawyers for former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling contend recently released FBI notes show that star prosecution witness Andrew Fastow gave testimony sometimes at odds with prior interviews he gave to…
U.S. District Judge Edward Nottingham, in the news for alleged links to a prostitution business, has been bounced from an expected retrial of the former CEO of Qwest Communications.
Lawyers for four Kuwaitis being held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, say government prosecutors are violating standard legal ethics rules by contacting defendants whom they know…
A rare precedent-setting win against the IRS earlier this year is making the lucky taxpayer something of a folk hero among those whom fortune hasn’t favored…
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