When Martha-Ann Alito dissolved into tears at her husband Sam’s confirmation hearing in January 2006, satirist Christopher Buckley decided to address the state of Supreme Court confirmation hearings. The result, “Supreme Courtship,” hits bookstores this week. Buckley, the son of the late William Buckley Jr., had to confront a couple of problems while writing the […]
A juror shortage forced an Oregon judge to look through a phone book before sending sheriff’s deputies out into the street to round up enough people for a trial. Lane County Presiding Judge Mary Ann Bearden said an unusually large number of criminal trials combined with an equally unusual number of no-shows for jury duty […]
A federal judge has declined to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a New York couple against a mortgage broker they claim was working in tandem with the orchestrator of a Ponzi scheme who is serving prison time for stealing more than $11 million from investors. The case is part of a lengthy and complex civil […]
Eight former executives and employees of a Cincinnati company that sold a male sexual aid and other supplements were sentenced Thursday in connection with a massive fraud scheme. A federal judge handed down sentences ranging from one month to one year for their roles in a scheme that federal prosecutors say netted Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals […]
An investment banker may pursue a suit he filed almost a decade after he claims a photo of him playing touch football was first displayed in a New York Sports Club without his permission. A New York judge held that the posting of Robert Geary’s photo on the Web site of the club’s parent company […]
A Spanish-speaking worker who signed an employment agreement written in English cannot later escape a mandatory arbitration clause in the agreement on the grounds that he did not understand it, a divided 3rd Circuit panel has ruled. In
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