An appeals court has restored $28 million in punitive damages to the relatives of five people who were killed when a skydiving plane crashed shortly after taking off from a rural Missouri airport. Relatives ...

Lynn's lawyers criticize Philly judge's handling of last year's Catholic church child sex-abuse trial.

Automated Insights , a startup that translates raw data into plain English, is launching a new product that could make analytics data a lot more accessible. The new product, called Site Ai , pulls data from existing systems (it started with Google Analytics and Clicky, and the company is currently taking votes on which service to integrate next), then it summarizes that data in normal sentences ...

Jamal Dean, the Sioux City man accused of shooting a police officer in his patrol car, faces five charges that could put him in prison for more than 80 years.

As Canada girds for the terror trial of two alleged al-Qaeda plotters, the law of conspiracy will be put to its highest-profile test since the Toronto 18 prosecutions

The former president of a mortgage document processing company has been sentenced for racketeering.

Two inmates have been indicted in the 2011 killing of a fellow prisoner at the federal penitentiary in Atlanta.

Former Judge Paul Pozonsky, who was removed from criminal cases last year for ordering evidence to be destroyed, will be arraigned today.

An Alabama judge has declared a mistrial in the murder case of a 47-year-old woman whose attorney argued heart disease and other health problems, not a gunshot wound, killed the...

An Abilene mother is on trial, accused of not turning her son over to police after he was arrested for his alleged involvement in a series of car burglaries around ACU in 2011.

The jury in the Jodi Arias trial has one decision left to make: Should she live or die? She made her case in court for why she should be allowed to live.

San Francisco • A federal court in San Francisco Tuesday struck down Arizona’s ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Prosecutors in Dallas are seeking the death penalty against a man charged with drowning two of his sons in a creek.

A Mexican national entered a guilty plea Thursday in the 2011 killing in Mexico of a U.S. immigration agent and the attempted murder of another.

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin woman accused of killing her baby more than 50 years ago showed up at her sentencing hearing Wednesday expecting to be sentenced to 45 days in jail as part of a plea agreement forged between lawyers. Instead, Ruby C. Klokow was sentenced to a maximum of 10 years in prison.

More than 25,000 Illinois residents have received approximately $1.8 billion from the landmark national mortgage settlement but servicer compliance with the pact remains an issue for several companies, according to a report from the settlement's independent monitor, issued Tuesday.        

AUBURN, Maine (AP) — Maine authorities have charged two more men in connection with the death of a man believed by one of the alleged assailants to be a police informant.        

THE wife of the deceased Boston Marathon suspect saw him just hours before his death, but had no idea of any plot, her lawyers said.        

The case between four former media members and the City of Charlotte, over negotiations between the city and the Carolina Panthers for stadium improvements, is expected to be heard by a judge Thursday afternoon.

R. Allen Stanford, the Texas financier convicted last year of leading an investment fraud scheme, was ordered to disgorge more than $6.7 billion by the judge in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit.

An Oshkosh man who caused a drunken driving crash that killed an Omro man last year will spend six years in prison.

VIRGINIA BEACH Police are looking for a former martial arts instructor accused of sexually abusing one of his students. Brian Lee Trial, 34, is wanted on charges of forcible sodomy and indecent liberties with a child. He is believed to be on the run, police said.

NEW ULM - A Twin Cities cardiologist and a New Ulm Medical Center (NUMC) emergency department nurse testified Thursday in a wrongful death lawsuit against Allina Health System and NUMC in Brown County District Court. Tom Davis, M..

An esteemed panel of current and former judges and pro bono appellate lawyers came together for a CLE series covering the basics of appellate advocacy for Northeast Florida legal services trial attorneys.

Judge Robert E. Burch (left) swears in Matthew P. Stephens (right) as an assistant district attorney general for the 23rd Judicial District as District Attorney General Dan Alsobrooks looks on.

Wayne County District Attorney Janine Edwards announced that the Pennsylvania State Police, Computer Crimes Division, Dunmore, arrested George Richard Miller, Sr. on May 9 for the possession and dissemination of child pornography on the world wide web.

The motion states Judge Suzanne Bass made inappropriate comments, had undisclosed discussions with an opposing attorney, wasn't controlling the courtroom and refused to allow the defense to call a witness during proceedings.

The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas said Wednesday that he has decided to represent himself at his upcoming trial.

So is it legal or not to use Airbnb in New York City? Earlier this week, a New York City judge likened an apartment rented out through the online service to an “illegal hotel” and fined the offender, Nigel ...

A Middlesex Superior Court jury has awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars to the former operator of Duxbury’s municipal golf course, after finding that the town unfairly ousted the company from managing the 9-hole course.        

It’s been 150 years since the Emancipation Proclamation passed into law. And the effects are still being felt. This year’s theme for the Stephens County Law Day is “Realizing the Dream: Equality for All.” Falling in line with the theme, the keynote speaker is Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice Noma Gurich, who was the third woman to become a Supreme Court justice in Oklahoma history. Law Day ...

A Troutdale man is serving a 25-year prison sentence — slightly more than one year for every sex crime a judge found him guilty of — for repeatedly raping a female relative starting when she was 8 years old. At the end of his three-day trial, James Kevin Bishop, 38, was found guilty of 24 counts, each representing a separate incident in which he violated the victim, who reported the abuse to a ...

Federal prosecutors recently indicted 25 people associated with the Baltimore City Detention Center on charges of racketeering, and drug and money laundering. Prosecutors allege that prison guards allowed gang members free reign over the prison, helping them smuggle drugs and cellphones into the facility. Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon speaks with Baltimore Sun reporter Ian Duncan ...

Inexpensive mock jury services will launch in May for attorneys to explore the dark areas of their case before the starting of actual court proceedings. (PRWeb May 04, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Value-Evaluation/mock-jury/prweb10685379.htm

Our local judges ought to pay particular attention to what's happening in DuPage County, where a sensational murder trial is under way in a courtroom where cameras are present. An experiment in DuPage County could help local judges decide when and how to let cameras in courtrooms. Cameras in Illinois courtrooms have been an increasing presence since January 2012, when state Supreme Court Chief ...

Michael Jackson's mother sat in court Thursday as a police detective testified that she told him the family had tried drug interventions for the singer, believing he was addicted to painkillers.

Pinal County attorney Lando Voyles advised the Board of Supervisors against issuing any permits for medical marijuana facilities in the county last week.

When producers for HLN’s “Nancy Grace” were planning the guest lineup for the night the verdict is returned in the Jodi Arias murder trial, one of the first people they called was William L. Manion —

Circuit Judge Belvin Perry said he was surprised, shocked and in disbelief when he read the verdict. Photo Credit: Getty Images

A federal appeals court has ordered a new trial for a lawsuit filed by the family of a Texas soldier killed during a live-fire training exercise in Hawaii.      The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling overturns a jury verdict that found the manufacturer of mortar cartridges not liable for causing the 2006 explosion that killed Staff Sgt. Oscar Rodriguez.      The 27-year-old from Beeville ...

An area truck driver who hit an Amish buggy and fled the scene is going to prison.