By Cheryl Miller | August 28, 2017
As California lawmakers moved Monday to shield the immigration statuses of litigants and witnesses in open court, debate continued to swirl over President Donald Trump's pardon of former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Several former federal judges offered their thoughts on the president's grant of clemency.
By Cogan Schneier | August 24, 2017
D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert E. Morin ruled from the bench Thursday that the government can proceed with its search warrant, but must provide reports to the court on how it will search the data.
By Cheryl Miller | August 22, 2017
California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye on Tuesday pushed back against criticism of her pleas to federal authorities to stop courthouse arrests of undocumented immigrants, telling a Sacramento gathering that she's challenging arrest policies, not immigration laws.
By Cogan Schneier | August 22, 2017
The warrant, issued to the website hosting company DreamHost, requested records kept on disruptj20.org, a site used to organize protests during President Donald Trump's inauguration.
By Lizzy McLellan | August 22, 2017
A new defense team for Bill Cosby has taken a different approach to the case already, choosing to select a jury from Montgomery County. The comedian's retrial has also been postponed until March at the earliest, to allow the new defense lawyers to get up to speed.
By C. Ryan Barber | August 21, 2017
A former National Labor Relations Board compliance official pleaded guilty Monday in Washington to charges he used his position to steal more than $400,000 in back pay that was meant for victimized employees.
By Lizzy McLellan | August 21, 2017
Bill Cosby has a new lawyer, and he's no rookie to the world of high-profile celebrity criminal trials. Cosby's new lawyers are Tom Mesereau, Kathleen Bliss, and local counsel Sam Silver, spokesman Andrew Wyatt announced Monday. Mesereau, of Los Angeles, is best known for representing Michael Jackson in a 2005 trial over alleged child molestation. Jackson was acquitted of the charges.
By Tony Mauro | August 15, 2017
A Hogan Lovells team is asking the court to decide whether "the death penalty in and of itself violates the Eighth Amendment." A sharp drop in death sentences and executions makes capital punishment "rare and freakish," the brief contends.
By Marcia Coyle | August 14, 2017
The killing of a legal assistant allegedly committed by a participant in the Charlottesville, Virginia, white supremacist rally over the weekend triggered calls for the defendant to face hate crime charges. But the U.S. Supreme Court has shown hate crime prosecutions present difficult legal problems.
By Cogan Schneier | August 14, 2017
Charles Weber Jr., the defense attorney assigned to the case, is also a plaintiff in a lawsuit over the statue of General Robert E. Lee at the heart of the controversy.
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