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Foreclosure activity in the nation hit a three-year low in February, according to data released Thursday by California-based RealtyTrac.

But whether the latest figures are a sign that the foreclosure crisis is abating is open to debate.

A bill that exempts estates smaller than $5 million ($10 million for married couples) from the federal estate tax, and creates a maximum estate tax rate of 35 percent, has passed the House and Senate and was signed by President Barack Obama.

Just weeks after making headlines for a phone call that revived a decades-old controversy surrounding her husband, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas is stepping down as head of the conservative group she founded earlier this year.

It seems like anyone with an e-mail account could've seen this one coming.

Any of you making bets on which Supreme Court justice will retire next may want to avoid putting any money on Justice Anthony Kennedy.

The first half of 2010 saw a 14 percent rise in consumer bankruptcy filings, according to a study by the American Bankruptcy Institute.

Senate lawmakers got to ask questions of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan today, the second day of her confirmation hearings.

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One question paralegals have is how to work for someone who has a different work style from their own. Many of us have found ourselves in work situations where our supervising attorneys want us to work in a different way. ...

In the early opening statements from members of the Senate Judicial Committee in the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, Republicans gave a preview of some of questions they will put to the nominee tomorrow - and made much of a 1995 law review article Kagan penned lamenting the fact that nominees rarely gave candid answers about their views.

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At a time when most industries are still struggling, businesses that supply goods and services to medical marijuana dispensaries are flourishing.

A Baltimore couple filed a wrongful birth lawsuit Monday after a sonogram showing fetus abnormalities was sent to a doctor with the same name as the treating obstetrician.

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