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A newly disclosed surveillance video from the hours before the killing of a black man in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014 has triggered fresh protests. A filmmaker has released the footage which he says shows Michael Brown did not rob a shop, as police claimed, but instead exchanged marijuana for cigars. He says it contradicts video released by police showing Brown threatening the shopkeeper as he walks out with cigars. The 18-year-old was shot dead by a police officer moments later. However, the convenience store maintains it was a robbery. Policeman Darren Wilson was cleared of wrongdoing by investigators but the...

The Legal Cheek blog reported on Monday that a Staten Island lawyer named Richard Luthmann has invoked what he thinks is his right to a trial by combat to resolve a case in which he is accused of helping a client commit fraud. The case involved his advice to the client In question to transfer assets beyond the reach of a group of creditors who had won a previous judgement against said client. The creditors are seeking punitive damages against Luthmann for helping to facilitate the alleged fraud scheme.

Lawyers for the parents of an unarmed, black 18-year-old who was fatally shot by a white police officer in a St. Louis suburb say they plan to file a civil lawsuit Thursday against the city of Ferguson. Attorneys for the family of Michael Brown announced their plans in a statement Wednesday night. […] Attorneys said at the time that the lawsuit would also name former Officer Darren Wilson, who shot Brown. The statement Wednesday did not mention Wilson, and a spokesman for the law firm said he could not provide any additional information about the lawsuit. …

Federal regulators are suing Jon Corzine, accusing the former New Jersey governor and U.S. senator of misusing customers’ money while he was CEO of brokerage firm MF Global. … June 27, 2013: The CFTC files a civil lawsuit against Corzine, seeking unspecified penalties and a ban on trading in the futures market; MF Global agreed to pay a $100 million penalty as part of a settlement. …

Judge: Gosnell Can't Avoid Civil Lawsuit in Botched Abortion Philadelphia, PA -- A local judge has ruled that embattled abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell -- who has gained national notoriety for the shoddy abortion business he ran -- can't sell his assets to avoid a civil lawsuit. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/03/01/judge-gosnell-cant-avoid-civil-lawsuit-in-botched-abortion/

Since I did not see this story here I will post it. (fair use) Levys open door for civil lawsuit By SUSAN HERENDEEN BEE STAFF WRITER Last Updated: June 19, 2004, 05:38:40 AM PDT Susan and Robert Levy may try to hold someone liable for their daughter's unsolved death, according to a petition to be considered Monday by a probate judge in Stanislaus County Superior Court. Chandra Levy, the 24-year-old Washington, D.C., intern who was romantically linked to then-U.S. Rep. Gary Condit, did not have a last will and testament when she disappeared in May 2001. In a declaration, Susan...

The civil lawsuit brought against a Russian shipping company by Navy Lt. Cmdr. Jack Daly is scheduled to go to a Seattle jury on Friday after a U.S. District Court judge unexpectedly ordered his lawyers to make their closing arguments Thursday afternoon. Two weeks of testimony from medical experts has bolstered Lt. Cmdr. Daly's claim that he suffered permanent and disabling injuries after the FESCO ship Kapitan Man attacked him with a laser beam on April 4, 1997. But Judge John C. Coughenour's ruling came as a surprise to his legal team, which was forced to prepare its closing arguments...