The daughter of a man executed 13 years ago for murder does not have legal standing to seek DNA testing of evidence in the case, a Memphis judge ruled Monday, but the judge said the ruling was based on jurisdiction, not on the merits of the claims.
Read moreCall it Schrödinger’s prosecution. Attorneys for a bank charged with the biggest money-laundering scheme to Iran ever alleged in a U.S. court, asserted before a federal judge Tuesday that their Turkish state-run client would not recognize the proceedings.
Read moreNew York’s highest court ruled Tuesday that it lacks jurisdiction to resolve the Cayuga Nation’s long-running internal tribal leadership dispute.
Read moreA government watchdog group blasted a ruling that will keep a defamation lawsuit filed by California Congressman Devin Nunes against Twitter and several users in Virginia state court, warning it could chill free speech.
Read moreFinding she lacks jurisdiction over financial firms and advisers accused of bilking military housing projects out of hundreds of millions of dollars, a federal judge decided Thursday to transfer the case to New York instead of dismissing it for lack of jurisdiction.
Read moreIn the annals of federal and state court prosecutors, turf battles have cropped up occasionally over criminal investigations. What has broken out in a fight over President Donald Trump’s tax returns threatens to be a turf war.
Read moreAn attorney for seven Cambodian villagers forced to work in the Thai seafood industry told a Ninth Circuit panel Friday that all partners in the venture knew or should have known about the practice and therefore violated federal laws against human trafficking.
Read moreDistributors and financiers of the film “London Fields” must amend their suit against director Matthew Cullen, a federal judge ruled, dismissing the fight over the project’s delays and budget overruns for want of jurisdiction.
Read moreIndia and Italy wrapped up hearings Saturday over jurisdiction in the 2012 killing of two Indian fishermen by Italian sailors in international waters.
Read moreNative American advocates told lawmakers on a Senate panel Wednesday that tribal police should have jurisdiction over violent cases committed by non-Natives on tribal land and the federal government should improve databases tracking such crimes.
Read moreThe Second Circuit declined to recall its mandate that federal courts lack jurisdiction over the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, despite claims that Americans were killed in terror attacks in Israel.
Read moreThe Supreme Court held unanimously Monday that federal courts can exercise jurisdiction over discrimination claims that were never brought before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Read moreA federal judge refused Thursday to dismiss a class action from noncitizen soldiers who claim the Army summarily discharged them without either explanation or due process.
Read morePennsylvania state Senator Joe Scarnati need not bear the $30,000 cost of detouring a gerrymandering suit to federal court, the Third Circuit ruled Wednesday.
Read moreA federal judge dismissed without prejudice, for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, a lawsuit over the refusal by the Florida Federal Judicial Nominating Commission to release records on one nominee.
Read moreE&B Natural Resources Management must amend its claims over an oilfield permit denied by Alameda County, a federal judge ruled Friday, finding the case belongs in state court
Read moreHow — and where — should victims collect reparations for a genocide? In New York, an effort to hold present-day Germany responsible for what is grimly called the first genocide of the 20th century hit a setback.
Read moreLawyers for a pair of accused drug dealers urged the New Jersey Supreme Court to bar their prosecution for a New Yorker’s overdose, saying state law does not cover conduct across the river.
Read moreAttorneys from both sides of the Kansas-Missouri border appeared before the Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday to determine which state has jurisdiction over a wrongful death lawsuit about a boy who was starved and tortured by his father and stepmother before his body was fed to pigs.
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