A federal court in Utah ruled that a police officer is not entitled to immunity in a suit relating to excessive force used during the arrest of a 13-year-old child who has autism. The child had been peering through the windows of a library when the officer noticed him and then forced him to the ground and handcuffed him.
Read moreA University of Virginia student has pledged to appeal the dismissal of his challenge to a federal law that bars people under 21 from buying handguns.
Read moreAn effigy of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg strung up under a bridge in Rome has prompted Italian authorities to open an investigation for “aggravated threats,” media reported Monday.
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The teenager who was the first victim of police gunfire in Hong Kong’s months-long pro-democracy protests was charged Thursday with rioting and attacking police.
Read moreKing County sheriff’s officer shot a teenager to death with eight bullets in a “recklessly supervised and unconstitutionally executed ‘sting’ operation to seize a different teenager,” suspected of selling alcohol to minors, the parents of the late MiChance Dunlap-Gittens say in federal court.
Read moreThe Florida judge handling capital murder charges against the Parkland high school shooting suspect on Thursday refused to remove a prosecutor from the case for calling the suspect “evil” and “worse than Ted Bundy” during a plea deal discussion.
Read moreThe state of Missouri argued Thursday before the Eighth Circuit that it has a public interest in preserving a law barring the advertising of alcohol at discounted rates because such ads could encourage underage drinking.
Read moreA man, now 19, sued the Youth Development Institute and the doctor who “prepared and issued a written report diagnosing him as ‘Sexual Abuse (Perpetrator)’” because when he was 15 he exchanged “consensual text messages with a female classmate that her parents deemed inappropriate;” he seeks punitive damages, in Maricopa County Court.
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Lee Boyd Malvo, who terrorized the Washington region in 2002 as one-half of a sniper team, is at the center of a case the Supreme Court will hear this fall. But the justices’ eventual ruling probably will mean less for him than for a dozen other inmates who, like the now-34-year-old Malvo, were sentenced to life without parole for murders they committed as teens.
Read moreThe Swedish teen traipsing around the lawn at the United Nations headquarters in New York Saturday morning in jeans and sneakers, trailed by a gaggle of eager grown-ups, embodied an unusual circumstance: adults following a child.
Read moreA student sued San Diego Unified School District and a teacher in superior court, claiming the teacher tried to persuade to prostitute herself to older men, and when she told the principal of it, he responded, “What? Another one?” but did not call the police, and told her that she needed to “move on.”
Read moreA family who have been living in their car and temporary housing after suffering financial hardship sued the Jefferson County (Ala.) Board of Education for refusing to let their son re-enroll as a senior at McAdory High School, in violation of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act.
Read moreRoman Polanski, whose new film on the persecution of the French Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus is premiering at the Venice Film Festival, is still dogged by a rape case that continues to polarize opinion. Here is a recap of the four-decade affair.
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E-cigarette giant Juul Labs is facing mounting scrutiny from state law enforcement officials, with attorneys general in Illinois and the District of Columbia investigating how the company’s blockbuster vaping device became so popular with underage teens.
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The Seventh Circuit upheld a preliminary injunction Tuesday against an Indiana law that would require judges to notify the parents of minors seeking an abortion, even if a court has found the minor mature enough to make her own choice.
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One of the many women who have accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse has kept Britain’s Prince Andrew uncomfortably at the center of the ongoing investigation.
Read moreMore than a dozen victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s decades-long sexual abuse network gave voice to their traumatic stories in New York federal court Tuesday, two weeks after the finance tycoon hanged himself while awaiting trial in the neighboring jail.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss claims from a man whom police in Hobbs, New Mexico, shot in a bar parking lot, as police allegedly knew and were indifferent to the bar’s serving minors and people who were too drunk to be served, creating a public nuisance.
Read moreA Texas appeals court upheld termination of a 17-year-old’s parental rights, for, among other things, not feeding her baby properly and smoking indoors in its presence
Read moreA teenager brought a federal complaint seeking an alternative to parental permission for an abortion, as “she will be disowned by her family and lose their good opinion and financial support if she is discovered to be pregnant.”
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