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In a case laced with mob violence, informants, betrayals and accusations of government-induced murders, a federal jury in Boston ordered the federal government to pay $3.1 million to the family of a murdered New England fisherman. The family of John ...

Mattel, the world’s largest toy maker, claims it owns the rights to MGA Entertainment’s Bratz dolls. Mattel filed a request in court Monday to add claims to an earlier lawsuit against Carter Bryant, the creator of the Bratz dolls and ...

Many Wisconsin attorneys received an e-mail message earlier this month purporting to be from the State Bar of Wisconsin and condemning a number of attorneys and judges for being corrupt. The state bar quickly responded to its members via e-mail ...

Johnson & Johnson unit says Roche ‘raided’ employees Ortho Biotech, a unit of Johnson & Johnson, said Hoffman-La Roche “raided” salespeople for its anemia drug Procrit and had them disclose proprietary information about customers and other employees. Hoffman-La Roche, a ...

Glen Dehn and Charles Blackburn are two of the plaintiffs-appellees in the same-sex marriage case that the Maryland Court of Appeals will hear next month. Both retired, they fear being separated in a nursing home or excluded from each other’s ...

The California Supreme Court said Internet publishers couldn’t be held liable if they posted defamatory comments written by others, a victory for online companies like Google and Time Warner’s America Online. The court held that those claiming defamation could sue ...

A lawsuit filed earlier this month on behalf of individual Arizonans and two national groups is challenging a pair of private school voucher programs approved by the Legislature, saying they unconstitutionally give tax money to private schools. “Vouchers drain money ...

Ford Motor Co., the No. 2 U.S. automaker, must pay $15 million for the death of a teenager in a sport utility vehicle rollover accident, an Oklahoma jury said. The parents of Tyler Moody, 18, said he died because the ...

Rent-A-Center settles ad suit for $7.8 million Rent-A-Center, the largest U.S. rent-to-own retailer, agreed to pay $7.8 million to settle claims it misled California customers about the price of its programs and terms of its club memberships. The company will ...

It’s a common scenario: You’re on an e-mail Listserv, and a compelling discussion arises over a significant legal issue. A few months later you take on a case that deals with that same topic, so you go back to the ...

Attorneys Roxanne Davis and Nathan Goldberg flank James Stevens, who was fired after he complained about his supervisor’s sexual harassment. Stevens sued his former employer and won an $18 million verdict. contributed photo A California jury recently ordered a supermarket ...