Freed Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang has filed a complaint seeking charges against two officials, accusing them of torturing him during his secret detention, according to documents seen by Agence France-Presse.
Read moreA federal court in Washington granted a preliminary injunction to the Southern Poverty Law Center, ordering Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities to provide detainees telephone access so they can communicate with legal representatives, who are not able to visit in person because of Covid-19. The facilities must also ensure attorney-client confidentiality is maintained.
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The U.S. Supreme Court sided Monday with a man on death row in Texas whose jury never heard mitigating evidence of his troubled childhood because of his lawyer’s deficient performance.
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After nearly four years of arguing for the Trump administration in high-stakes Supreme Court battles, Solicitor General Noel Francisco plans to leave the Justice Department, according to multiple reports Thursday morning.
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A convicted identity thief who managed a New York hedge fund before his arrest for a three-year fraud spree has asked an 11th Circuit panel to nix his 22-year sentence, claiming the trial court erred by letting him represent himself.
Read moreA federal court in Texas ordered Baylor University to produce thousands of documents from a law firm’s internal investigation on the university’s policies on student sexual assault cases in a suit in which multiple students accuse the university of mishandling their claims that they were raped.
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The Senate on Tuesday confirmed a White House lawyer as a watchdog to oversee a $500 billion bailout fund to support industries struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Opinions continue to mount on whether the federal judge in Michael Flynn’s case should green-light the Justice Department dropping the prosecution against the former national security adviser, as the legal battle gears up for arguments this summer.
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Two conservative members of the Supreme Court voiced disapproval Monday that they won’t be tackling a challenge to compulsory bar association dues that fund legislative positions.
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The Great Recession over a decade ago set off a number of trends for law school enrollment across the United States, according to a study that shows women outnumbered men and enrollment for Asian Americans has declined more than any other ethnic group.
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A two-month moratorium on new complaints in New York City has not caused major tort lawyers to pare back their workload.
Read moreFormer Trump attorney Michael Cohen will be released from prison early and serve the rest of his three-year sentence from home due to the Covid-19 threat, weeks after a previous release order was reversed amid changing guidelines.
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With the Nazis murdering Jews and ransacking their property outside on the infamous nights of Kristallnacht in 1938, 13-year-old David Toren sat in the sunroom of his wealthy great-uncle in Germany admiring a favorite painting depicting two men on horseback on a beach.
Read moreThe SEC sued Ronald Swanson, a disbarred attorney, formerly of Litchfield, Conn., claiming he defrauded investors in Sonic Cavitation of more than $2 million, in federal court.
Read moreA psychologist in charge of a university’s counseling center violated ethics standards when she provided a student’s patient file to university attorneys who had received a litigation-hold letter from the student’s attorney asking them to preserve records related to her sexual assault claim, an appeals court in Oregon ruled.
Read moreThe U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York denied Steven Donziger’s motions to disqualify all of the judges in the district from presiding over his case, disqualify the special prosecutors, and dismiss the six criminal contempt charges he’s facing in a dispute arising from his role in obtaining a multibillion-dollar judgment against Chevron in Ecuador for dumping oil waste in the Amazon rainforest.
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