PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Rhode Island court panel is recommending the dismissal of a state district court judge over complaints of sexual harassment and judicial ...
Read More »Judge won’t give ‘sanctuary city’ ban early blessing
AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge Wednesday threw out Texas’ efforts to have a “sanctuary cities” ban preemptively declared constitutional in a victory for the ...
Read More »Settlement of lawsuit against ABC exceeds $177M
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A legal settlement between ABC and a South Dakota meat producer in a defamation lawsuit over the network’s reports on a ...
Read More »Trump seeks further delay in labor fiduciary rule
The Trump administration is moving to further delay part of an Obama-era rule to require brokers who offer retirement advice to put their customers’ interests ...
Read More »Commission: Cargill plant violated Muslims’ rights in prayer ban
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has found reasonable cause that agribusiness giant Cargill violated the civil rights of Somali-American Muslim employees by refusing to ...
Read More »Jail to Yale: Felon faces scrutiny in bid to be lawyer
HARTFORD, Conn. — A convicted felon who graduated from Yale Law School and won acclaim as a poet is being asked by a Connecticut committee ...
Read More »Civil forfeiture came from strange place
By Stephen Mihm One of the central criticisms of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s effort to roll back Obama-era restrictions on civil forfeiture is that it ...
Read More »Chicago sues over sanctuary city threat
CHICAGO (AP) — Mayor Rahm Emanuel has taken his fight against President Donald Trump’s immigration policies to court, with Chicago becoming one of the first ...
Read More »Judge says evidence from FBI pornography search can be used
A federal judge says an FBI pornography search was unconstitutional but that the evidence found can still be used against a northeast Minnesota man. U.S. ...
Read More »St. Louis officer unusual in opting for nonjury trial
ST. LOUIS — The fate of a former St. Louis police officer accused of killing a suspect rests with a judge, not a jury of ...
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