Legal News
As you may recall, in 1991, Rodney King suffered skull fractures and brain and kidney damage from a beating by Los Angeles police officers after a traffic stop. The acquittal of 3 officers involved in the beating led to riots that took 55 lives and caused a $1 billion in property damages. After a civil […]
According to EURWeb.com one of the four men who accused Bishop Eddie Long of sexual misconduct was arrested this week in Florida on suspicion of being a drug dealer, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Read More:
Legal Analyst Sunny Hostin breaks down what’s next now that the defense has rested in the Casey Anthony trial.
Today marks the fifth day of the capital murder trial of Casey Anthony. Friday her father and the manager of a towing company testified that her car reeked of the unmistakable odor of a decomposing body. Read More:
Strauss-Kahn posted bail in the amount of $1 million in cash and a bond of $5 million. As part of the agreement he will surrender his travel documents and submit to home detention.. He was released after being indicted on seven criminal charges. His next court appearance is set for June 6. Read More:
Strauss-Kahn’s resignation came ahead of his attorneys appeal to the New York Supreme Court to release their client on bail. The appeal, which will be filed Thursday, argues that he has agreed to post a $1 million in cash bond, to be monitored electronically and to be confined to home detention in Manhattan, and to […]
A woman suspected of snatching an infant from a New York hospital in 1987 has been indicted on federal kidnapping charges, according to court papers released Thursday. Read More:
The lawyer for Enron’s jailed ex-CEO Jeffrey Skilling said Thursday he has reached out to the federal Bureau of Prisons to request that his client be allowed to attend his son’s funeral. Read More:
The holder of mortgage debt on Grammy-winning singer Toni Braxton’s home won bankruptcy court approval to launch foreclosure proceedings against the Georgia property. As of Nov. 23, US Bank said Braxton owed the full $1.5 million on her mortgage, while the property itself been appraised at $1.2 million. Read More:
Comedian Steve Harvey goes to court next month to ask a Texas judge to stop his ex-wife from talking about the break up of their marriage and the bitter child custody fight that followed, Harvey’s lawyer said Thursday. Read More:
The government collected a whopping $4 billion last year — the largest sum ever recovered in a single year — through its health care fraud prevention and enforcement efforts, according to a new report Monday. Read More: