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Rapper Remy Ma was not denied a fair trial when a judge barred her attorney during his summation from implicating her victim for allegedly brandishing a gun as the women argued over $3,000, New York state's high court has ruled.
Citing the "extremely troubling" actions of a defense attorney who did not advise his client on whether to accept a plea offer, a magistrate judge has granted the defendant habeas corpus relief and ordered him freed after more than 11 years in prison.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that attorney-client privilege attaches not only to communication from the client to the lawyer, but to communication going the other way, too.
New York-based APS Healthcare, accused of submitting false reimbursement claims to the Georgia Department of Community Health on behalf of Georgia Medicaid customers, will pay $13 million to settle a whistleblower suit.
A district court can limit the number of patent claims it considers in an infringement case as long as the process doesn't unfairly hamper the plaintiff's case, the Federal Circuit has ruled.
Employers can't force workers to sign away the right to a Labor Commission hearing on an unpaid wage claim as a condition of employment, a split California Supreme Court has concluded in a contentious decision.
The 1st Circuit has denied a new trial to a convicted murder who claimed ineffective assistance of counsel because his trial lawyer failed to mount a defense related to Zoloft's effect on him.
In 2010, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's average profits per equity partner rose an astounding 20.9 percent to $2.31 million. And that isn't the only financial milestone the firm achieved last year.
Facing arrest in a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme, Scott Rothstein turned to
his former police clients as potential targets for an FBI sting,
according to documents and lawyers in a $16 million mortgage fraud case.
But did Rothstein have the authority to target the officers?
Plaintiffs lawyers' demand for at least $223 million in compensation for work on a landmark American Indian class action goes against promises they made in a settlement contract, the Justice Department says.
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