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A short-haired, heavyset woman of 59, rings flashing from every finger and both thumbs, glares from the witness stand at a conservatively suited, confident young lawyer who is trying to rip apart her case against the largest retailer in the ...

Court ruling on conduct of pregnant woman already affecting other cases

Former public defender could have been jailed for marriage fraud

Federal government weighs in on lower court

Sentencing for a woman who pleaded guilty of embezzling from nursing home residents was postponed Friday for two weeks so her attorney can obtain and review her medical file. Marie Allen, 54, pleaded guilty of bank fraud in August. She ...

Attorneys for two families suing Ford Motor Co. for product liability in a fiery 2003 wreck that killed a state trooper asked an appellate court in Kansas City on Friday to grant them a new trial. The families have already ...

Citigroup Inc., IBM Corp. and dozens of other companies must face a $400 billion lawsuit accusing them of aiding South Africa’s former apartheid regime, an appeals court said in a ruling that may make it more costly for U.S. firms ...

A Nevada jury ordered Wyeth to pay $34.5 million in damages to three women who sued the company over its menopause drugs, $100 million less than it originally awarded before the judge in the case told them to reconsider. Judge ...

U.S. businesses, with the help of civil libertarians, are on the verge of outmaneuvering federal prosecutors and persuading Congress to limit the government’s power to pursue corporate fraud. Lawmakers are considering a measure that would, among other things, bar the ...

Kinky Friedman, the Lone Star renaissance man, has recorded music, written novels, sold cigars and saved thousands of animals. Last year the Jewish cowboy ran for governor of Texas as an Independent, and lost. “If God had run as an ...

At its height, Rudolf Nureyev’s dancing combined the feral power and beauty of his movement with a passionate, volatile temperament. He transformed his raw gifts into a sleek professional style — part Russian, part European — without ever giving up ...