The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dashed one of Rod Blagojevich’s last hopes to reduce his 14-year prison sentence by refusing to hear the former Illinois governor’s appeal of his remaining corruption convictions, including his attempt to sell an appointment ...
Read More »Biden: ‘There is no Biden rule’ on Supreme Court nominations
Vice President Joe Biden tried to clear his name and tout his record on Supreme Court nominations, calling Republican branding of his past remarks on the subject “ridiculous” and casting himself as a longtime advocate of bipartisan compromise in filling seats ...
Read More »Official: Bogus lawsuit filed in name of Giffords’ shooter
Two bogus lawsuits that raised eyebrows for their claims— including that Tucson shooter Jared Lee Loughner was framed— are being separately investigated by federal authorities. Federal authorities are investigating the phony lawsuit filed in the name of the man who ...
Read More »Why a future Apple-FBI case ma y go very differently
Although it fiercely opposes the FBI’s demand for help unlocking a San Bernardino shooter’s encrypted iPhone, Apple has never argued that it simply can’t do what the government wants. That might not be true for long. At the moment, the ...
Read More »Woman convicted of working for decade as unlicensed attorney
A former president of a Pennsylvania county bar association has been convicted of using forged documents to pose as an estate lawyer for a decade even though she didn’t have a law license. Kimberly Kitchen was convicted Thursday on charges of ...
Read More »California jury rejects graduate’s suit against law school
A jury found Thursday that a San Diego law school did not mislead a graduate who sued on the grounds she was lured to the school by false promises that her degree would land her a job after graduating. The ...
Read More »Lawyers: Children need lawyers in immigration court
Government lawyers have urged a federal judge to remove certain children listed in a lawsuit that seeks to require court-appointed lawyers for indigent children who enter the country illegally. But lawyers for the ACLU and immigration-rights groups said any child ...
Read More »Federal court diversion program sees its first graduates
When Dan Diekemper, a pretrial services officer, started to get choked up while telling the stories of graduates of a new diversion program in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Missouri, he made no apologies. “I’m going ...
Read More »Volkswagen set to provide update on fix for diesel vehicles
Attorneys for Volkswagen are expected to reveal where the company stands on a fix to bring nearly 600,000 diesel cars into compliance following an emissions cheating scandal. Senior U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer is scheduled to get an update from ...
Read More »Colleges face legal backlash from men accused of sex crimes
After years of complaints that they weren’t taking sexual assault reports seriously, colleges are finally doing so — and finding themselves slammed with lawsuits from men who say they were unfairly suspended or otherwise punished. The schools are feeling caught in ...
Read More »Judge orders bank to pay farm owner after foreclosure
A Platte County judge on Tuesday ordered a bank to pay $850,000 plus costs to a woman who lost her home after a dispute with the bank over outstanding loans on the property. Judge James W. Van Amburg ruled that ...
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