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An employment discrimination case returns to county Judge Barbara Wallace’s courtroom this week following an appeals decision that reversed her original ruling. Wallace granted American Airlines summary judgment more than a year ago in its defense of a discrimination lawsuit ...

For a small firm, adding a lawyer represents a major commitment that includes hiring additional support staff. A new Boise, Idaho, company is offering what it hopes will be an alternative – temporary help. Boise attorneys Forrest Goodrum and Merrily ...

Women who use cocaine while pregnant cannot be prosecuted under the Maryland’s reckless endangerment statute for harming the children they are carrying, the state’s highest court held last week. The Court of Appeals reversed the convictions of Regina Mary Kilmon ...

A lab executive’s three-month sentence for fraud was too lenient when sentencing guidelines recommended a 60-month sentence for his crime, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. Prosecutors had appealed the defendant’s sentence arguing that, even after the ...

K.C. man charged with murder of twin brother A Kansas City man was charged this week with shooting his twin brother to death at a home in the 4400 block of Monroe Avenue. Tyrone L. Holman, 28, allegedly shot his ...

Opposing lawyers in a three-year-old lawsuit were ordered by the court to go stuff themselves – at a good restaurant. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Pendleton Gaines mandated the meal in a minute entry filed July 21. He had in ...

A Maryland judge’s denial last month of a government request to track a fugitive via his cell phone signals is the latest skirmish in a growing battle over when officials may use the practice. It appears that, until about a ...

Minnesota would become the first state to mandate the use of stronger, security-type window screens for some new developments under a bill that is expected to be introduced next year. State Sen. Linda Berglin is writing legislation that would require ...

A hiker whose leg injury became infected two weeks after a physician’s assistant stitched it can go to trial on medical-malpractice claims against the doctor who “signed off” on the assistant’s treatment notes. The July 5 ruling shows that a ...

When a train derailed near Minot, N.D., on Jan. 18, 2002, five overturned tanker cars released almost 221,000 gallons of anhydrous ammonia into the night air as local residents lay sleeping. The accident spawned much litigation. Many of the Minot ...

Many companies think it pays to have someone else handle their payroll. Managing payroll, after all, can be time-consuming, especially if you have a high employee-turnover rate, if your employees are paid different amounts each pay period or if they ...