Lawyers will be soon be testifying against a judge before a Florida hearing panel that has been convened to determine whether a Miami-area jurist violated ethics rules and bullied attorneys…
Although tentative steps are being made toward creating U.S.-style plaintiffs litigation opportunities in Europe, including class actions and shareholder cases, there are still substantial barriers to pursuing such cases there.
One of the Jena 6 defendants has agreed to a plea deal in juvenile court that apparently will require him to serve little additional time, after spending much of 2007…
Over the years, an 86-year-old federal judge who sits in Brooklyn, N.Y., has developed a following among local plaintiffs lawyers. And complex tort cases are frequently given to U.S. District…
It isn’t just people with poor credit who are now suffering in the aftermath of a subprime lending spree. And, although a federal government plan is supposed to be announced…
A federal judge in Utah has thrown out a guilty verdict in an assault case against an American Indian defendant because of jurors’ racist remarks during deliberations.
Extradition is only one way for the U.S. government to get suspected criminals in foreign countries back to American soil for trial. Another legitimate option is to kidnap them, a…
An activist who owns several St. Louis apartments as part of his “housing ministry” is challenging a sign ordinance that bans his large mural opposing government seizure of property.
A 17-year-old who has been imprisoned for much of this year in a controversial Louisiana case that has sparked massive civil rights protests may be close to a plea deal.
Tennessee Judge W. Neil Thomas III readily admits that sifting through scientific evidence and parsing medical jargon in medical-malpractice cases can be like an English major performing brain surgery.
A unanimous Washington Supreme Court has ruled that a southwestern Washington woman was wrongfully barred from getting a job as a clerk and checker because she was pregnant.
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