By Josefa Velasquez | February 27, 2018
The Child Victims Act, if passed, would extend criminal and civil statutes of limitations. It would give victims of previous sexual assaults a one-year window in the civil statute of limitations from the effective date of the law in which victims of any age could seek damages for sex abuse instances in the past.
By Jason Grant | February 27, 2018
Newkirk's monthlong fraud trial in late 2015 drew headlines across a broad spectrum of New York press and many lawyers followed its twists and turns.
By Andrew Denney | February 27, 2018
Prosecutors in the corruption trial for Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, wrapped up their case on Tuesday by portraying Percoco as willing to abuse the powers of his office in exchange for bribes.
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By The Associated Press | February 27, 2018
An American citizen has been arrested on charges he sought to fight overseas for the Islamic State group.
By Max Mitchell | February 27, 2018
Sessions outlined plans to create a new litigation-oriented task force within the Department of Justice to pursue claims against opioid manufacturers and distributors.
By Marcia Coyle | February 27, 2018
"I think the starting point all would agree, in what was it, 1986, no one ever heard of clouds," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said to the DOJ's Michael Dreeben on Tuesday in the data-privacy case United States v. Microsoft.
By Andrew Denney | February 27, 2018
Former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli is on the hook for almost $10.5 million in losses to his investors, a federal judge has found.
By Josefa Velasquez | February 27, 2018
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, a Republican, announced Monday with Delaware Gov. John Carney and Gov. Ricardo Rosello of Puerto Rico that they would join the “States for Gun Safety” coalition unveiled last week, roughly a week after a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, left 17 dead and more than a dozen injured on Feb. 14.
By R. Robin McDonald | February 27, 2018
The lawsuit claims Chief Superior Court Judge Brenda Weaver of the Appalachian Judicial Circuit sought their arrest and indictment after they tried to get records for her office's operating account.
By Katheryn Tucker | February 27, 2018
The man known as “the stocking strangler” is scheduled to die by lethal injection for the 1977 rapes and murders of Florence Scheible, 89, Martha Thurmond, 70, and Kathleen Woodruff, 74.
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