In an effort to settle a class-action lawsuit, Blue Cross of California has agreed it won’t cancel health coverage unless it can show deception by a policyholder.
The defense in the sex abuse trial of former fashion writer Peter Braunstein called a psychiatrist to testify and showed slides of the defendant’s brain.
A Brooklyn jury has acquitted seven people of securities fraud in a case that alleged stock brokers at three firms allowed day traders to listen to confidential trading information broadcast…
On this day in 1973, charges against Daniel Ellsberg in the Pentagon Papers case were dismissed, due to government misconduct. (The administration of President Richard M. Nixon was implicated in…
A federal judge in the so-called D.C. Madam criminal racketeering and money laundering case has ordered defendant Deborah Jeane Palfrey to stop handing out client phone numbers to media outlets…
An effort by a New Jersey attorney to hold state police accountable for speeding that apparently caused a traffic accident in which the state governor was seriously injured ended today…
In what reportedly could be the first such ruling in the nation, a Pennsylvania court has found a sperm donor responsible for supporting his two biological children.
The former top lawyer at software maker Comverse Technology Inc. was sentenced today to a year and a day in jail and ordered to pay $52 million for his role…
Overruling a professional disciplinary board, the Delaware Supreme Court has publicly reprimanded an attorney over the language he used in a legal brief.
Among other questionable language, the brief said…
Arguing that the U.S. war on Iraq is illegal, a Canadian lawyer is now seeking asylum there for some three dozen American soldiers who have deserted their units and fled…
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