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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th District last week dismissed a bid-rigging case that James Cape & Sons Co. launched in 2005 shortly before announcing its closure in March last year. The case has its roots in a ...

Once police searched a suspected cocaine dealer’s truck during a traffic stop and found no contraband, they had no authority to detain the suspect or search his home and another building to which he had a key, the Rhode Island ...

Mentors teach lawyers lessons not learned in school

Judges and lawyers say additional court officers and surveillance cameras are needed to combat an apparent spike in violence in and around some Massachusetts courthouses the past several months. While the recent strangulation of a defense attorney in Suffolk Superior ...

The Minnesota Legislature’s final version of its new eminent-domain law gives most cities the ability to finish current projects under the previous law. The reform package, pushed by an emotional drive to protect individual property rights, made it more difficult ...

Wisconsin’s eminent domain laws gained some new conditions when the state Supreme Court upheld a Winnebago County Circuit Court decision last week. The conflict was between plaintiff Bernice Spielberg and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, which condemned a portion of ...

A murder suspect’s wife could not invoke spousal privilege to avoid testifying in a grand jury proceeding against her husband, the Supreme Judicial Court has ruled. The suspect’s wife argued that the spousal privilege applied to any criminal proceeding against ...

For his role as an unsavory accountant, actor Greg Durkin donned a tan sports coat and brown golf shirt. “He was a little on the sleazy side,” Durkin explained of the costuming decision for his character. Durkin, a veteran actor ...

A Jewish lawyer from Vienna, Va., won a $1,500 verdict against a man who told him he was sorry his family had not been “exterminated in the concentration camps.” A little-used Virginia statute allows a person to sue when subjected ...

California Court of Appeals Justice Earl Johnson Jr. has done a fair amount of traveling in his time and applauds the Europeans for their expansive view of the right to legal counsel in civil cases. The United States has a ...

The maker of a contact lens solution faces a class action suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. The complaint filed by Michael A. Schneider of Kansas City claims that Bausch & Lomb’s ReNu ...