Last month, West Virginia lawmakers took the extraordinary action of impeaching all four state Supreme Court justices for spending issues, including a suspended justice facing a 23-count federal indictment. The state House of Delegates voted to impeach Justice Allen...
Last week, Barbara Underwood, New York’s attorney general, subpoenaed all the state’s Roman Catholic diocese as part of a full-scale civil investigation into sex abuse allegations against clergy and church leaders.At least five other state attorneys general have...
In the latest legal news, a lawsuit filed against a lawyer who represented a client in an ongoing legal feud is being sued for abuse of process claims a John Doe lawsuit was filed to harass the plaintiffs. Kenneth Logan and Quentin Kearney have been embroiled in a...
Abuse of process is described as the improper use of a civil or criminal legal procedure for an unintended, malicious, or perverse reason. “It is the malicious and deliberate misuse of regularly issued civil or criminal court process that is not...
Defendants sue plaintiff’s attorney one day before trial The most recent proceeding in a long-standing legal battle between a plaintiff and two defendants has stalled as the defendants in the case are suing the plaintiff’s attorney—serving a draft notice one day prior...
