Contending that the leak of his indictment allowed reporters to film his predawn arrest last month, Roger Stone lobbed contempt charges Wednesday against the Special Counsel’s Office.
Read moreComplaining that more than 40 percent of a settlement fund remains untouched, a lawyer told the D.C. Circuit on Wednesday that the Hilton hotel group has kept thousands in the dark about retirement benefits.
Read moreThe ACLU asked a federal judge Wednesday to make the Department of Justice unseal any docket sheets and rulings on its motion to hold Facebook in contempt of court, which was heard on Aug. 14, after Facebook refused to let investigators wiretap encrypted voice calls made using its Messenger app.
Read moreA former aide of longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone told the D.C. circuit late Tuesday that no law gives the attorney general the authority to appoint a private attorney to serve as special counsel.
Read moreSpecial counsel Robert Mueller received a court endorsement Friday from nine constitutional law professors who want the D.C. Circuit to affirm the constitutionality of Mueller’s appointment.
Read moreAn anti-abortion crusader’s lawyer on Friday urged the Ninth Circuit to reverse a nearly $200,000 contempt fine, accusing a federal judge of bias and painting the fine as an unfair criminal penalty imposed on her client.
Read moreA former aide to Trump confidant and longtime GOP operative Roger Stone asked the D.C. Circuit on Wednesday to consider whether special counsel Robert Mueller was constitutionally appointed.
Read moreThe Kansas Supreme Court cleared a path Thursday for a grand jury investigation into allegations that Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and other election officials mismanaged the 2016 elections.
Read moreA Russian firm accused of conspiracy in the plot to sway the 2016 U.S. presidential election bolstered its bid Wednesday to participate in an appeal by Roger Stone’s subpoenaed longtime aide.
Read moreA federal judge found an aide to longtime Trump ally Roger Stone in contempt Friday for refusing to comply with a subpoena demanding his testimony in the probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.
Read moreA Florida newspaper is facing a possible contempt charge after publishing details that were meant to be redacted in a report about a school district’s examination of the Parkland school shooting suspect.
Read moreU.K. judges on Wednesday granted far-right activist Tommy Robinson conditional bail while he appeals a finding of contempt of court for live-streaming outside a criminal trial in violation of reporting restrictions.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit ordered Maricopa County to enforce a federal court order addressing a broad array of sheriff’s office policies issued in the wake of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s conviction for contempt of court.
Read moreCiting concern that her protest would adversely affect the appeal of a former client, a Mennonite woman has decided she will testify in a death-penalty case despite her religious beliefs against capital punishment.
Read moreThe Justice Department agreed Wednesday to release records on the gun-running scandal Operation Fast & Furious, which led to a contempt finding against former Attorney General Eric Holder.
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A federal judge Thursday found a presidential pardon does not wipe out a guilty verdict, rejecting former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s request to vacate his criminal conviction for contempt of court.
Read moreA federal judge on Wednesday accepted President Donald Trump’s pardon of former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio and dismissed the criminal contempt action against him.
Read moreA group of congressional Democrats on Wednesday urged a federal judge to invalidate President Donald Trump’s pardon of former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio and move forward with sentencing on criminal contempt charges.
Read morePresident Donald Trump spared his ally former Sheriff Joe Arpaio a possible jail sentence on Friday by pardoning his conviction, reversing what critics saw as a long-awaited comeuppance for a lawman who escaped accountability for headline-grabbing tactics during most of his 24 years as metropolitan Phoenix’s top law enforcer.
Read morePresident Donald Trump said he may pardon former Sheriff Joe Arpaio for his criminal contempt of court conviction for racially profiling Latinos in defiance of a federal judge’s order, because Arpaio is “a great American patriot” who “has done a lot in the fight against illegal immigration.”
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