A federal judge has approved a settlement that calls for the St. Landry Parish School Board in Lafayette, La., to pay $800,000 to the attorney who was on the opposing side of the parish’s school desegregation case for more than …
Sandra Bryant’s life the past decade has been one of great escapes, the first coming with her fleeing the family’s burning house unscathed as her teenage son died inside. Authorities later accused her of killing the boy by intentionally setting …
Students from some Thumb communities are going to school at the Michigan Supreme Court. The court is taking justice on the road Thursday by hearing a case at the Tuscola Technology Center in Caro, 100 miles from the state capital. …
A Massachusetts judge on Friday awarded a total of $3 million to two child sex abuse victims of a former Franciscan priest who served prison time for child molestation in a separate case. Superior Court Judge Janet Sanders entered the …
Lawyers for a West Virginia nursing home are preparing to take a case to the state’s Supreme Court on the grounds that a $91.5 million jury award should be reduced under the state’s medical malpractice law. In August, after a …
A federal judge in California has dismissed a case against Toyota Motor Corp. that was supposed to be the first to reach trial out of hundreds of sudden acceleration complaints filed in federal court. U.S. District Court Judge James V. …
A man who stole approximately 16,000 identities, including those belonging to active duty and reserve U.S. service members, and used them to defraud the Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES), was sentenced this week in a Dallas federal court. …
A trial is under way in Eugene over a police officer’s use of a stun gun to stop a man fleeing over a fence from a traffic stop. The excessive force suit filed by 34-year-old David Snauer in federal court …
The family of an Oregon teen is seeking nearly $300,000 in a federal civil rights lawsuit that alleges the boy was bullied and beaten by another high school student. The lawsuit filed against the Sherwood, Ore., School District and the …
A lawyer in Mexico for a leading U.S. drug manufacturer, which promotes its global anticorruption policy, offered to pay an opposing expert in a business lawsuit if he would leave the country on a key court date to undermine the …