NC Top Court May Hear Case In Murder Of NBA Star's Grandpa

By Marco Poggio

North Carolina prosecutors have asked the state's top court to review a trial court order vacating the convictions of two men found guilty of murdering NBA star Chris Paul's grandfather in 2002, before the state appeals court rules on the order, court documents show.

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NC Sheriff Faces Ouster Bid Over Alleged Threats To Lawmaker

By Hayley Fowler

A district attorney in North Carolina has asked the State Bureau of Investigation to look into allegations of bribery and extortion against an elected county sheriff accused of trying to influence a state lawmaker's vote on an immigration bill.

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NASCAR Boss Resigns Weeks After Antitrust Suit Settlement

By David Steele

NASCAR Commissioner Steve Phelps resigned Monday, less than four weeks after the stock car racing organization settled a suit with two teams accusing it of being a monopoly — a suit in which derogatory texts by Phelps were revealed.

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Courthouse News NC Electronic Filing Suit Headed To Trial

By Matt Perez

A North Carolina federal judge on Monday refused to grant a summary judgment win to Courthouse News Service in its suit claiming the state's e-filing system created dayslong delays in obtaining new civil suits, saying the state court administrators have demonstrated there is a genuine dispute over whether the case is moot due to allegedly improved access to filings.

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Ameritas Says Prior Deal Ends Couple's Annuity Fraud Suit

By Hope Patti

A retired military officer and his wife cannot proceed with a suit over the sale of unsuitable equity indexed annuities, Ameritas and a former insurance agent said, urging a North Carolina federal court to enforce a settlement agreement and release that resulted from mediation.

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DOJ Wants Time During Door Maker Divestiture Argument

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice is asking to appear at an upcoming Fourth Circuit argument to support a door manufacturer defending the first court-ordered divestiture in a private merger challenge.

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NC Man Gets 6 Years, Must Pay $6M For Investment Fraud

By Sydney Price

A Charlotte, North Carolina, man who pled guilty to running a $5.3 million investment fraud scheme will serve six years in prison, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of North Carolina announced Tuesday.

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4th Circ. Asked To Revive Experian Credit Investigation Suit

By Abigail Harrison

Experian Information Solutions Inc. violated its statutory duty by failing to reinvestigate and later approving a clearly erroneous credit report that resulted in a refused mortgage application, the report's subject told the Fourth Circuit in an attempt to revive his class action lawsuit.

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4th Circ. Revives Black Ex-Baltimore Cop's Race Bias Suit

By Vin Gurrieri

A divided Fourth Circuit on Tuesday revived a Black former Baltimore police officer's suit alleging she was treated less favorably than non-Black officers by being pushed out, saying she offered adequate examples of other officers who received more leniency than she did for alleged misconduct for her race discrimination claim to survive.

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'Get Over' Yourself, Ho Says To Judges' Independence Worry

By Lauren Berg

U.S. Circuit Judge James C. Ho snapped back at colleagues on the bench who have raised the alarm over threats to judicial independence, writing in an article that those complaining judges "need to get over themselves" and stop bowing to the "cultural elites" who oppose the Trump administration.

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Trump Announces First Judicial Picks Of 2026

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday evening his first judicial nominees of 2026, a slate of four district court picks for Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana.

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Halligan Ordered To Explain Why She's Still Listed As US Atty

By Hailey Konnath

A Virginia federal judge Tuesday ordered Lindsey Halligan to explain why she was still identifying herself as a U.S. attorney despite another judge's order finding that the former insurance lawyer hadn't been properly appointed and was serving illegally on an interim basis.

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Judgeship Nomination Not Renewed Amid Fla. Charity Probe

By Courtney Bublé

The nomination of John Guard, senior counselor to the attorney general of Florida, for a Middle District of Florida federal judgeship, has not been renewed for the new session of Congress after he came under scrutiny in a criminal probe regarding a charity connected to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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Atty Apologizes For ChatGPT-Hallucinated Citations In Briefs

By Elliot Weld

A patent attorney has apologized to a Kansas federal judge for submitting a court filing with case citations hallucinated by ChatGPT, calling the experience "shameful and embarrassing" and saying he was in a poor mental state at the time due to his mother and aunt being hospitalized and dying shortly after.

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Texas Justices Erase ABA Approval In Bar Admissions

By Lynn LaRowe

The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday issued an order ending a longstanding rule requiring graduation from a law school approved by the American Bar Association for admittance to the state bar, with the court giving itself the authority for accreditation.

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WH Says Judge Can't Pursue Immigration Contempt Probe

By Jared Foretek

The Trump administration has once again told the D.C. Circuit that U.S. District Judge James Boasberg lacks the constitutional authority to open a contempt probe into the government's removal of hundreds of Venezuelan migrants against his emergency order in March, calling the investigation an "unprecedented criminal fact-finding inquisition."

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Judiciary Advisers Predict Clashes Over AI, Remote Testimony

By Jeff Overley

The federal judiciary's policy advisers appeared divided Tuesday over efforts to align procedural rules with digital age technology and preferences, and they predicted a torrent of impassioned input if they open up their delicate internal debates to the entire public.

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Girardi Keese CFO Must Use His Own Atty For Chicago Appeal

By Lauraann Wood

Girardi Keese's former financial chief cannot have counsel appointed to help him challenge the Illinois sentence he is serving alongside his 10-year California sentence for helping Tom Girardi steal millions from clients because he isn't pursuing the appeal in good faith, an Illinois federal judge has ruled.

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National Judicial College Names Idaho Law Dean As President

By Jake Maher

The National Judicial College has named a new president and chief executive officer, selecting the dean of the University of Idaho College of Law to become the first woman to hold the position.

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