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  • November 14, 2025

    Murder Conviction Tossed Over Judge's Texts To Prosecutor

    A Los Angeles Superior Court judge's midtrial text messages seeking to influence the prosecution's handling of a witness have caused a murder conviction to be overturned in California, after the attorney general's office conceded the messages showed too high a likelihood of judicial bias to be ignored.

  • November 14, 2025

    Feds Say Ex-Police Union Prez Got Break With 30-Month Term

    A Massachusetts police union president who was convicted in a kickback scheme and sentenced to 2.5 years in prison should receive at least that much time when he's resentenced following a First Circuit decision largely affirming the verdict, prosecutors said, calling the original punishment a "windfall."

  • November 14, 2025

    BREAKING: 'Predator' Gets 37 Years For Post-Commutation Ponzi Scheme

    Convicted fraudster Eliyahu "Eli" Weinstein was sentenced to 37 years in federal prison on Friday for orchestrating a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme that began as the "ink dried" on a presidential commutation signed by Donald Trump at the end of his first presidential term.

  • November 14, 2025

    Fla. Court Nixes $120K Fee Award In Soured Real Estate Deal

    A Florida appeals court on Friday reversed an award of $120,000 in attorney fees for the business partner of a real estate lawyer after an agreement to buy and operate an Orlando office building fell apart.

  • November 13, 2025

    J&J Bellwether Trial Over Talc Cancer Risks Kicks Off In LA

    An attorney for one of two women who claim Johnson & Johnson's talcum products caused their ovarian cancer told a Los Angeles jury Thursday during opening statements in a bellwether trial that decades-old internal documents prove J&J knew its talc products contained toxic levels of asbestos but hid that information.

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