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A federal judge should not have forced a defendant to perform a physical demonstration at his trial on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held. However, the error ...

Lawyers for former White House official David Safavian asked a U.S. judge to throw out his criminal conviction for lying about the help he gave disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Safavian, 39, was found guilty June 20 on three counts of ...

The Internet Archive settled a lawsuit that challenged the nonprofit group’s process for making copies of old Web sites and allowing the public to access them through the Wayback Machine. Healthcare Advocates, a Philadelphia-based group, sued the Internet Archive last ...

Richard King, a well-known development attorney and founder of King Hershey law firm, died Thursday morning. He was 62. For more than a year King battled pancreatic cancer, according to Roger Hershey, who founded the firm with King and a ...

Photo by Charles EmerickAttendees at the third annual Kansas City Association of Legal Administrators Educational Conference and Exposition sign up for a raffle at the Office Max booth Thursday afternoon at Argosy Casino. Approximately 95 people attended

Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice Marion Opala is taking his age-discrimination lawsuit against his fellow court justices all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. In July, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out Opala’s case in a ruling ...

A judge refused to order Wal-Mart to stop threatening workers to keep them out of a lawsuit over back pay, saying he found no evidence the world’s largest retailer engaged in the practice. U.S. Magistrate Judge John R. Froeschner in ...

An attempt by Montgomery County, Md., to help secure lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada for its residents and employees has met with defeat in federal court. In a lawsuit filed six months ago in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Md., ...

Target Corp., operator of the nation’s second-largest discount store chain, must defend an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it has racially biased hiring practices, a federal appeals court said. The U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago on ...

Lawyers representing hundreds of plaintiffs claiming injuries from their use of Vioxx want the federal court in St. Louis to decide whether it has jurisdiction of the cases before they are transferred to a New Orleans federal court overseeing the ...

Microsoft foe sues software companies over patents Z4 Technologies, the winner of a $140 million patent verdict against Microsoft Corp., is suing software companies including Symantec Corp. and Adobe Systems over the same method of curtailing piracy. Z4, founded by ...