Companies that ship products abroad in violation of U.S. export laws could find themselves in the sights of a new amped-up Justice Department enforcement program. Billed as a crucial component…
It isn’t just Sidley Austin and the now-defunct Jenkens and Gilchrist that come to mind these days when one thinks of the federal investigation of allegedly abusive tax shelters.
The former chief criminal judge in Broward County, Florida, has been cleared of misconduct for using the acronym NHI, short for “no humans involved,” after an April attempted murder trial…
A highly controversial book authored by fallen football hero O.J. Simpson that some considered his confession to the 1994 murders of his former wife, Nicole, and a male companion, Ron…
Although he scored a big legal victory June 4, when the U.S. government–at least for now–was told by a military court that its terrorism charges against him are invalid, Omar…
A Florida law firm has filed several lawsuits against Florida businesses claiming they are illegally revealing credit and debit card numbers on customer receipts.
Are Emma, 5, and Jackson, 6, just somebody’s property? Or are the two chimpanzees, with their individual interests and tastes–she likes watermelon, for instance, while he prefers grapefruit–entitled to have…
A settlement has been announced in litigation brought by the National Federation of the Blind to make it easier for persons with limited vision to use automated teller machines.
Deaths of two suspects in the custody of Saudi Arabia’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice during the past two months have resulted in public announcements…
Updated: Famed plaintiff securities lawyers Melvin Weiss and William Lerach reportedly have said no deal to a plea deal offered by federal prosecutors in a criminal kickbacks case against the…
A “miscarriage of justice” may have resulted in the conviction of a Libyan intelligence agent in the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing, requiring that he be granted a new appeal by…
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