A reader notified me over the weekend, that briefs were filed and distributed on March 6, 2009 in RJ Reynolds' writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court in the Star Scientific v. RJ Reynolds case.  The following is the Court's quick reply as presented in a Star Scientific press re...

By LISA LEFF and PAUL ELIAS Associated Press Writers SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As thousands of demonstrators chanted slogans and waved placards outside, California’s highest court on Thursday skeptically grilled lawyers seeking to overturn the state’s ban on gay marriage. Attorneys for same...

CHICAGO (AP) — The sheriff’s department for Chicago’s Cook County says it’s suing Craigslist, calling the popular online classifieds site the largest source of prostitution in the United States. Sheriff Tom Dart plans a news conference later Thursday. A call for comment before bu...

PACER/ECF was a godsend for Third Wavers, connected attorneys, future lawyers, telecommuters, home office lawyers and, really, all lawyers when it was first established.  It sure beat the hell out of making tons of copies of a documents and either couriering or FEDEXing them to the Courthouse,...

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — William Osborne, convicted in a brutal attack on a prostitute in Alaska 16 years ago, says a blue condom holds evidence of his innocence or confirmation of his guilt. Either way, he says, the Constitution gives him the right to test the gen...

By LISA LEFF Associated Press Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A year after the state Supreme Court entertained arguments on extending marriage to gay couples, many of the same lawyers will be back before the same justices this week arguing why California’s voter-appproved ban on same-sex marriag...

The French UMP party are being sued by the duo MGMT over the use of their song Kids. UMP paid a standard €53 fee to France's music licensing body, but MGMT's lawyer Isabelle Wekstein says that this was not enough to cover subsequent uses of the song, particularly on the Web. UMP has admitted using...

Written before the collapse of our credit markets, I was reminded of the New York Times article Foreclosure Machines Thrives on Woes by Billy Price and his blog Dallas Bankruptcy Lawyer.  It was an amazing article when written, and it likely speaks volumes now that foreclosures have only incre...

Filed under: Activism, Blogs, North America, United States, Airlines, News Three Phoenix-based flight attendants are in the unusual position of defending themselves from pilot-instigated litigation. Of course, they deserve it. I mean, what would you do when people responsible for passenger safety re...

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press Writer HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge accused of gropping two female court employees as he tried to force himself on the women and have them perform sex acts pleaded guilty on Monday to obstruction of justice in exchange for sex-related charges being dropped. U.S...