USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is more than halfway through its federal fiscal year. While it hasn’t taken any new criminal actions, it has reported various civil injunctive actions, ...

Good movie courtroom dramas, like the current “A Civil Action,” feed our latent sense of justice. Their basic appeal lies in satisfying our desire to see a conflict between good and evil, in which ...

The routine unassigned action docket includes will, trust, estate and property actions that can be resolved with a single hearing. The Court of Chancery has created a separate docket for routine civil ...

Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, risk management, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex (Reuters) ...

For three years, Jan Schlichtmann wandered the beaches and rain forests of Hawaii, trying to escape the case that made him famous. His failed prosecution of two companies accused of polluting the ...

Jan Schlickmann is a cynical lawyer who goes out to 'get rid of' a case, only to find out it is potentially worth millions. The case becomes his obsession, to the extent that he is willing to give up ...