A psychiatrist who has been unable to interview Maryland newsroom gunman Jarrod Ramos can still testify as to what he observed of the killer’s mental state, a Maryland judge ruled Friday.
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Finland violated the rights of the victims of a 2008 school shooting by giving the perpetrator a gun permit, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Thursday.
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Attorneys for the man who killed five people in a siege of the Capital Gazette’s Maryland newsroom fought Thursday to limit evidence from a psychiatrist who is ready to testify about the gunman’s mental state without having ever interviewed him.
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he white supremacist who slaughtered 51 worshippers at two New Zealand mosques was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole, the first time the maximum available sentence has been imposed in the country.
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Families and survivors had their first chance to confront the white supremacist who slaughtered 51 worshippers in a mass shooting at two New Zealand mosques as his four-day sentencing hearing began Monday.
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A lawyer for some of the Sandy Hook school shooting victims’ families accused Remington Arms on Tuesday of using its new bankruptcy case to try to wipe out their lawsuit over how the company marketed the rifle used in the massacre.
Read moreA Sandy Hook victim’s parent may pursue his intentional infliction of emotional distress claim against Alex Jones and InfoWars relating to statements disputing the authenticity of the 2012 school shooting, an appeals court in Texas ruled, finding the lower court properly refused to dismiss the case.
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Lawyers are scheduled to argue about whether a psychologist’s observations about a man who killed five people at a Maryland newspaper should be heard by jurors who will decide whether he’s criminally responsible because of his mental health.
Read moreSACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — Over two years after a Northern California man shot multiple school children and killed his wife
Read moreGunmaker Remington Arms filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, putting in question the future of a massive lawsuit from families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre, which is set for trial next year.
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Some three years after Sarah Palin sued The New York Times over an editorial about toxic political rhetoric, the paper’s attorney told a federal judge that the former Alaska governor’s hunt for evidence has turned up empty.
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Fifteen people were injured, one person was being questioned and multiple suspects were being sought after gunfire erupted outside a funeral home on Chicago’s South Side where at least one squad car was present, police said.
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Orange County, California, prosecutors mishandled the case against the area’s deadliest mass murderer, secretly using jailhouse snitches and violating discovery laws, according to a wide-ranging review into prosecutorial misconduct released Monday by the county’s district attorney.
Read moreA federal court in Texas dismissed a lawsuit brought against the U.S. government by the estate of a man seeking mental anguish damages after his mother was killed in the 2017 mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas. The estate failed to state a claim arising from a “knowing violation of statute.”
Read moreThe Fourth Circuit Monday upheld a Maryland law banning bump stocks and other gun attachments that speed up the firing rate of semiautomatic weapons.
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The Texas man accused of killing 23 people and injuring 23 more at an El Paso Walmart last August was re-indicted on Thursday by a grand jury that added new murder and hate crime charges to the state’s case against the gunman.
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The majority of public school districts in the U.S. are focusing their budgets on security to prevent shootings instead of widely needed building repairs, a federal watchdog found in a new report.
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The Ohio Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday over whether the school records of the deceased Dayton gunman who killed nine people last year should be made available to the public and press.
Read moreAn appeals court in Florida upheld the dismissal of a civil suit against a mental health facility that provided mental health services to Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz between 2009 and 2016. The facility did not owe a legal duty to protect or warn students that attended the same school as one of its patients.
Read moreA former student who was shot six times at Santa Fe High School in Texas by a classmate who killed 10 and wounded 13 sued Luckygunner.com, of Tennessee, et al., claiming it sold the shooter guns and ammo online though he was not old enough to buy them legally, in federal court.
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