Opening arguments are scheduled to begin today in the Los Angeles murder trial of renowned music producer Phil Spector. Prosecutors say he shot and killed B-movie actress Lana Clarkson, 40,…
Morgan Stanley has agreed to pay up to $46 million to settle a class action suit by female brokers who alleged the investment bank discriminated against them in training, account assignments and pay.
Despite allegedly infringing several voiceover patents held by Verizon Communications Inc., Internet upstart Vonage Holdings Corp. can continue in business as usual against the telephone giant while its appeal of…
In what may be the first of dozens of new prosecutions of foreign detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. military charged a Canadian with murder and other crimes…
A 21-month criminal trial in Indonesia against a major U.S. mining company and one of its executives ended today with a not-guilty verdict by the judge.
A $12 million settlement in a child abuse case and subsequent difficulty getting insurance reportedly is forcing one of the most well-known foster care agencies in the country out of…
Testimony by an expert witness for prosecutors who was unable to help a patient suffering from severe migraines ended up aiding the physician on trial for drug trafficking, according to…
The producers of bacteria-tainted spinach that sicked hundreds and led to a nationwide recall last year have reportedly settled for undisclosed terms the lawsuits brought by the families of three…
In a pretrial hearing for Jose Padilla, expected to go to trial on terrorism-related charges in federal court in Miami next month, the judge made a startling comment.
In the second day of what is expected to be a several-month trial over the murders 13 years ago of 10 Belgian peacekeeping troops in Rwanda, along with the country’s…
A convicted sex offender has been found not guilty by a South Carolina jury of charges that he kidnapped and raped two teenage girls, binding them with duct tape and…
Roxanne Conlin, who describes herself in the April ABA Journal, as “the most senior civil rights lawyer in Iowa” is used to seeing her small firm (she…
In the latest salvo in the ongoing clash over the apparent political purge of eight U.S. attorneys, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a written opinion…
A Florida judge has awarded $20 million in fees and $2.9 million in costs to lawyers who represented plaintiffs in a trade secrets lawsuit against Motorola, but didn’t rule on…
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