By P.J. D'Annunzio | January 8, 2015
A Philadelphia judge has ordered the immediate release on parole of a man who has served more than 40 years of a life sentence, which he claimed was the result of prosecutorial misconduct and false testimony.
By Saranac Hale Spencer | January 8, 2015
Hundreds of people who sued Pfizer alleging birth defects from its antidepressant Zoloft will be allowed to present another expert after the first one they offered to the court was tossed last summer.
By Mark Hamblett | January 8, 2015
The Second Circuit agreed that New York state's requirement that all public school children be vaccinated, which allows for certain medical and religious exemptions, does not violate the rights of parents under the First and Ninth Amendments, nor violates the guarantees of equal protection and due process.
By Ben Bedell | January 8, 2015
The First Department held that even though the attorney whose disqualification was sought had imparted confidential information gained from a prospective client that was "likely to be detrimental" to the client, "disqualification is not warranted because the conveyed information did not have the potential to be significantly harmful."
By Julie Kay | January 8, 2015
A Fort Lauderdale jeweler is trying to recover a commission on the sale of a large diamond that Kim Rothstein hid from federal marshals when her husband's Ponzi scheme collapsed.
By Andrew Keshner | January 8, 2015
The state's seizure and two-year retention of computers during a criminal case did not amount to unlawful taking, a Fourth Department panel ruled, reversing a Court of Claims judge.
By Ben Bedell | January 8, 2015
The First Department split 4 to 1 Tuesday in affirming a manslaughter conviction over defense objections that the trial judge's deadlock charge had a coercive effect on two holdout jurors.
By Max Mitchell | January 7, 2015
An environmental advocacy group has failed in its constitutional challenge to the state government's use of funds from leasing state land for oil and gas development. However, a split en banc Commonwealth Court panel ultimately determined that, going forward, the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, and not the governor, should have direct authority to execute those leases.
By P.J. D'Annunzio | January 7, 2015
Two doctors who were sued by a woman who claimed they failed to promptly diagnose her with Hodgkin's lymphoma have been dismissed from the litigation because of the statute of limitations, a Lackawanna County judge has ruled.
By Noreen Marcus | January 7, 2015
Brad Edwards, a former Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler attorney, is suing retired Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz for defamation in a war of words tied to former Palm Beach billionaire and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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