With only Justice Neil Gorsuch and the chief aligned in dissent, the Supreme Court found nothing unconstitutional Tuesday about letting the Patent and Trademark Office review patent claims without court involvement.
Read moreAs New York readies for a federal trial of the notorious drug lord later this year, El Chapo’s 28-year-old wife complained outside the courthouse Tuesday about her husband’s confinement.
Read moreWith Bill Cosby’s retrial set to kick off next week, a judge ruled Friday that the newly seated jury will not hear evidence about the former district attorney who refused to prosecute the same case in 2005.
Read moreQuoting 19th century French literary criticism, Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke out Monday after the Supreme Court rejected appeals by two men on death row in Florida.
Read moreDemanding a do-over of a 1977 rape and murder trial, attorneys highlighted new evidence Monday showing that systemic race discrimination led to their black client’s conviction by an all-white jury.
Read moreA cold-case murder trial ended in a mistrial Friday, after 10 of 12 jurors said they would vote to find the accused not guilty in the death of his 2-year-old stepson 16 years ago.
Read moreThe ongoing saga of the seminal opening to Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” played out in the Ninth Circuit on Monday, with a former music journalist complaining a jury wasn’t allowed to listen to the recording of a song that was supposed to have influenced Zeppelin’s rock epic.
Read moreFour jurors asked to call it quits Tuesday, as a federal judge presiding over the corruption trial of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s former top aide braced for a winter storm and turbulent deliberations.
Read moreA New York judge joked with Donald Trump Jr. about his profession after the president’s son reported for jury duty.
Read moreThe judges, deputies and clerks showed up for court, but one key element was missing: No one had invited any jurors.
Read moreA stroke survivor whose execution the Supreme Court blocked last month persuaded the justices Monday to take up his case.
Read moreA federal judge declared a mistrial Wednesday after the jury deadlocked on whether a Southern California CEO gave insider trading tips about his company’s merger to retired Major League third baseman Doug DeCinces.
Read moreA federal jury in San Antonio on Tuesday began deliberating 11 felony charges against state Senator Carlos Uresti, who is accused of helping to run a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme called FourWinds Logistics, a bankrupt fracking enterprise.
Read moreVoicing regret about his role in the conviction of Martin Shkreli’s lawyer, a former juror filed an affidavit with the court in which he described deliberations on Evan Greebel as “a complete mess.”
Read moreOrdering an anonymous and partially sequestered jury Monday for the trial of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, a federal judge rejected claims that doing so would unfairly color the drug kingpin as a dangerous man.
Read moreA Louisiana man was found guilty of manslaughter Friday for fatally shooting former NFL player Joe McKnight during a road-rage incident just over a year ago.
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Amid protests against the U.S. political system inside and outside the courthouse, a federal judge Monday assembled a jury of seven women and five men for a long-anticipated corruption trial of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s former right-hand man, Joseph Percoco.
Read moreQuoting a juror’s signed affidavit questioning whether black people had souls, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered a hearing Monday on whether his involvement in a capital trial prejudiced its outcome.
Read moreA California appeals court ruled Friday that a trial judge properly chucked a $7.1 million jury award to former LA Times sports columnist T.J. Simers, agreeing a damages retrial is necessary to determine how to apportion the award.
Read moreDefense counsel for the convicted former attorney of pharmaceutical bad boy Martin Shkreli seized Friday on a juror’s newly disclosed misgivings about deliberations.
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