A California appeals court upheld the denial of Shia LaBeouf’s anti-SLAPP motion in a case relating to an altercation he had with a bartender who refused to serve the actor and his companion alcohol. LaBeouf called the bartender a “racist” and video footage of the incident was posted on the internet and broadcast on TMZ. The bartender sued for assault and slander.
Read moreA Mexican man sued the United States for $1 million in federal court, claiming a Border Patrol agent shot him from behind as he knelt on the ground, unarmed, in rural Webb County, Texas, for which the agent was charged with aggravated assault.
Read moreA sheriff’s deputy in southeast Tennessee accused of groping underage girls and baptizing a woman under duress was hit with a fourth lawsuit Wednesday.
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The Houston Astros fired their assistant general manager Thursday amid an investigation by Major League Baseball into comments he shouted at a group of female reporters as the team celebrated a pennant-clinching win last Saturday.
Read moreJacqueline Kent Cooke, daughter of the late Washington Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke, claims The Daily Mail, The Morning Call and G/O Media dba Jezebel defamed her by claiming she “pled guilty to and/or was convicted of an anti-Semitic physical assault on a Jewish lawyer in New York City,” in New York County Supreme Court.
Read moreFederal employees overseeing U.S. public lands were assaulted or threatened at least 360 times over a five-year period marked by heightened tensions with anti-government groups, a congressional watchdog agency said Monday.
Read moreA former Georgia police officer who fatally shot an unarmed, naked man was found not guilty of murder on Monday, but was convicted of aggravated assault and other charges that could send him to prison for more than 30 years.
Read moreAn Islamic terrorist already serving a life prison term for a bombing in New York City was convicted Tuesday of multiple counts of attempted murder and assault stemming from a shootout with police three years ago.
Read moreAn Orange County, California, grand jury has indicted MMA fighter Ralph Gracie on a felony assault charge stemming from incident involving five-time Jiu-Jitsu world champion Flavio Almeida that knocked out Almeida’s two front teeth.
Read moreA University of Arizona cross-country runner was assaulted by a coach and repeatedly bullied by coaches and teammates for a year, but was told that he simply needed to learn to “fit in,” according to a federal lawsuit filed against the university Monday.
Read moreA 30-day prison sentence for the man who attacked Senator Rand Paul outside his Kentucky home two years ago is too lenient, the Sixth Circuit ruled Monday.
Read moreA disgraced former Cleveland judge faces life in prison following his guilty plea Tuesday to the murder of his estranged ex-wife, after denying the charge last year.
Read moreA black student claims in a federal lawsuit that white administrators at his Texas junior high school humiliated him and violated his civil rights by coloring in a stylized line in his haircut with a black Sharpie.
Read moreA U.S. Army veteran who choked and threw a 14-year-old boy to the ground for not removing his hat during the national anthem at a small-town Montana rodeo pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of assault.
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A Montana man charged with assaulting a 13-year-old boy who did not remove his hat during the national anthem believed he was doing what President Trump wanted him to do, his attorney said.
Read moreRapper A$AP Rocky and two other U.S. suspects will be freed from jail until Aug. 14, when judges are expected to announce a verdict in the assault case against them, a Swedish court announced Friday.
Read moreFederal prosecutors argued before the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday to lengthen the prison sentence of the man who attacked U.S. Senator Rand Paul outside his Kentucky home two years ago.
Read moreU.S. rapper A$AP Rocky pleaded not guilty to assault at his trial in Sweden Tuesday over a street brawl, saying he acted in self-defense in a case that has stirred diplomatic tensions and outraged fans.
Read moreA Swedish prosecutor on Thursday charged rapper A$AP Rocky with assault over a fight in Stockholm last month, in a case that has drawn the attention of fellow recording artists as well as U.S. President Donald Trump.
Read moreProsecutors dropped a case Wednesday accusing Kevin Spacey of groping a young man at a resort island bar in 2016 after the accuser refused to testify about a missing cellphone the defense says contains information supporting the actor’s claims of innocence.
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