The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals declined to review a ruling that affirmed the admission of a North Carolina bishop's testimony about a man's murder confession, prompting a pointed dissent Thursday over a lower court's application of another state's law.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals declined to review a ruling that affirmed the admission of a North Carolina bishop's testimony about a man's murder confession, prompting a pointed dissent Thursday over a lower court's application of another state's law.
A prominent Massachusetts criminal defense attorney best known for representing Lindsay Clancy has been accused in a separate case of "abandoning" a client who is serving life sentences for second-degree murder and home invasion, allegations the lawyer denies.
An Illinois woman sued Apple in Illinois federal court Wednesday, alleging the tech giant negligently released AirTags without adequate safeguards despite knowing stalkers could misuse them and saying she has been secretly tracked with an AirTag, physically attacked and forced to relocate multiple times.
Former Connecticut budget official Konstantinos Diamantis slipped out of the United States before learning his fate on federal corruption charges by driving to Florida, taking a boat to the Bahamas, and flying to London, apparently using a Greek passport he was not supposed to possess, attorneys revealed in court Thursday.
A former correctional officer who prosecutors claimed smuggled drugs and cellphones into a southeast Georgia prison was sentenced to four years behind bars, the U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday.
New Jersey power broker George E. Norcross III alleged in a $100 million defamation suit filed Thursday in Pennsylvania state court that the Garden State's failed racketeering case against him was built upon fabricated claims and notes that an editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer funneled to prosecutors.
A Tennessee federal judge has dismissed a hemp distributor's claims against a district attorney general over 216 pounds of hemp that was seized, then destroyed, following a 2023 traffic stop, finding he has prosecutorial immunity.
A split Ohio state appeals court has ruled the back of a police cruiser does not qualify as a "public place" under state law, reversing a man's conviction for refusing to identify himself after he was placed in the back of a patrol car.
Federal law enforcement officials have charged four individuals in corruption and fraud cases involving money meant to help the homeless, including the founder of a Los Angeles County nonprofit who allegedly used more than $7.5 million in public funds to pay for luxury items and a nightclub.
A Washington sheriff's office was hit with a $27 million tort claim Thursday alleging a deputy wrongfully killed a DUI suspect by stabbing him 17 times with a personal, "unauthorized" dagger during a May 2025 confrontation in a testing room at a Washington State Patrol station.
The Senate voted 49-45 on Thursday to confirm Kasdin Miller Mitchell, a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, to serve as a U.S. district judge for the Northern District of Texas.
As executives at leading artificial intelligence companies increasingly assert that their own technology could one day pose an existential threat to humanity, a natural question follows: If the risk is real, can anyone sue to stop it before disaster strikes?
Misuse of artificial intelligence tools and a "state-of-the-art" revamp of electronic dockets in federal cases were among the hottest topics Thursday at a major meeting of judiciary leaders, who also heard a lawmaker warn of eroding trust in the U.S. Department of Justice.
The Federal Trade Commission has ditched its historical multimember, multiparty ethos for a one-party regime in which fewer dissents might make it easier for Chairman Andrew Ferguson to pursue his agenda, but it also forecloses the potential "moderating influence" that comes with winning broad buy-in from commissioners of two parties.
An immigration attorney and her firm asked a New York federal judge to sanction the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for failing to reasonably investigate an allegedly bogus unregistered securities claim it brought against them in an EB-5 immigrant investor case.
Plaintiffs suing over the Trump administration's once-proposed "anti-weaponization fund" are telling a Virginia federal judge to reject the U.S. Department of Justice's objections to a magistrate judge's discovery order, accusing the administration of stonewalling their requests and urging prompt discovery production.
