An attorney for the parents of a 14-year-old boy who was shot and killed by a Los Angeles Police Department officer in 2016 said Friday in closing arguments of their wrongful death trial that the officer’s actions were driven by anger and not his training.
Read moreKansas Gov. Jeff Colyer and the heads of the state’s foster care program allowed children in foster care to become essentially homeless and suffer from sexual exploitation and trafficking, according to a federal class action lawsuit filed Friday.
Read moreA federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a policy that allegedly treats non-citizens in the military as “second-class recruits” and prevents them from starting basic training.
Read morePolice officers posing as federal agents seized a man’s legal weed on a northern California highway as part of a conspiracy to sell stolen legal cannabis on the black market, a Texas man claims in a lawsuit filed Friday.
Read moreReversing an order that jailed a Long Island man for four months over his failure to pay child support, a New York appeals court tore into a conservative Long Island judge for his unmistaken bias.
Read moreRecommending they read William Faulkner to learn the “boundaries of human decency,” a federal judge on Friday admonished former Mississippi police officers accused of forcing a mentally disabled man to eat a mouthful of cinnamon days after making him box a cop.
Read moreA successful New York artist who shacked up in the Hamptons with a younger man he met online brought a lawsuit Thursday, claiming that he was the victim of a humiliating extortion attempt.
Read moreAttorneys representing landowners in the Atchafalaya Basin will meet in a pretrial hearing Friday with attorneys for Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC, the corporation they say trespassed on their land, cut down hardwood trees, dug trenches and buried a crude oil pipeline without their permission. At issue, attorneys say, is the larger issue of why Louisiana allows corporations to expropriate private property by eminent domain in the first place.
Read moreCalling it “a remarkable piece of work,” a federal judge Thursday formally approved a settlement by the government and attorneys for families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border to redo their asylum interviews.
Read moreA coalition of civil rights groups brought a complaint Thursday demanding information on how immigration authorities use the Boston Police Department’s gang database to target black and Latino residents.
Read moreThe repeated and targeted arrests of a prominent Vladimir Putin critic were aimed at “suppressing political pluralism” in Russia, the European Court of Human Rights found Thursday.
Read moreFollowing a trio of departures by Dartmouth professors accused of sexual misconduct, the prestigious school was accused in court Thursday of allowing the men to operate a “predators’ club” out of its psych department for over 16 years.
Read moreNew York’s highest court appeared reproachful Thursday of the decision to let jurors in the 2010 trial of four gang members remain anonymous.
Read moreImmigrant advocates charged the U.S. government in court Wednesday with illegal surveillance and harassment done in retaliation for their work organizing farmworkers.
Read moreCalling for a dramatic overhaul of New York City public housing, a federal judge blocked a proposed consent decree Wednesday that would have spent more than $2 billion on fixes.
Read moreAccusing Philadelphia’s new subversive district attorney of compiling a secret list of cops he judges problematic, union officials demanded court intervention Wednesday to prevent reputational harm.
Read moreLawyers suing President Donald Trump over his decision to end special protections shielding certain immigrants from deportation are seeking unaired footage from his reality TV show “The Apprentice” to try to bolster their case alleging the move was racially motivated, the attorneys said Wednesday.
Read moreWith one culprit behind bars for his son’s brutal stabbing death, a Connecticut man leveled cover-up claims Tuesday against the parents of two accused accomplices.
Read moreIn a bizarre ruling on the oversight of cremated remains, the European Court of Justice found Wednesday that the Italian city of Padua cannot ban the safekeeping of cinerary urns by private companies.
Read moreA former U.S. Border Patrol agent who shot a Mexican teen through an urban border fence in southern Arizona doesn’t remember much of the incident, he testified at his manslaughter trial Tuesday.
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