Just how all-encompassing is literary license? According to Delaware Chief Judge Colm F. Connolly, it has its limits — and Netflix appears to have run afoul of them. The streaming and entertainment titan saw a defamation lawsuit against it move forward after Connolly ruled that the Netflix miniseries “Inventing Anna” may have very well taken […]
HOUSTON — A former Houston police officer who led a 2019 deadly drug raid that prompted a probe which revealed systemic corruption problems within the police department’s narcotics unit and resulted in nearly two dozen convictions being overturned has won a legal victory after a judge dismissed two murder charges he had been facing in […]
A New York judge issued an order Tuesday barring former President Donald Trump from making public statements about possible witnesses in his hush-money case. The gag order from Judge Juan Merchan also prohibits Mr. Trump from directing attacks at lawyers in the case other than Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg; members of court staff; and […]
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the New York judge who set the April 15 date for his criminal hush money case suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome. He said Judge Juan Merchan should recuse himself because of his family ties to Democratic political campaigns and the trial should be moved from Manhattan to Staten […]
A New York judge rejected former President Donald Trump‘s request to dismiss a hush money case against him and said jury selection will begin on April 15. Judge Juan Merchan set the start date for Mr. Trump after a hearing on a defense request to toss the criminal case over the late handover of evidence […]
Former President Donald Trump came out swinging Monday morning — on a day when he has to post a $454 million bond or potentially have properties seized. .In February, New York state Attorney General Letitia James won a civil fraud suit against Trump that claimed he overvalued his businesses and properties. As punishment, Trump was […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Rod Blagojevich, the ex-governor and ex-con who often dusted off ancient and sometimes puzzling quotations to emphasize his positions, found himself at the other end Thursday when a federal judge dismissed his lawsuit attempting to return to public life by quoting Dr. Seuss: “Just go.” The Chicago Democrat, impeached and removed from […]
BOSTON — A federal appeals court on Thursday ordered Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev‘s case to be returned to a lower court to probe claims of juror bias. The order from the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals keeps intact Tsarnaev‘s death sentence for now. But the appeals court said the trial court judge’s investigation […]
“Laws? Where we’re going, we don’t need any laws.” Rather than a line from the script of a futuristic movie, that may now be an emerging legal concept in the courts of Illinois. This month, an Obama-appointed judge in the Northern District of Illinois dismissed illegal firearm possession charges against an illegal immigrant named Heriberto […]
U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman ruled earlier this month that an illegal alien can not be charged for carrying a loaded firearm. What can go wrong? Judge Coleman is an Obama appointee and a liberal judge in Illinois. An illegal alien, Heriberto Carbajal-Flores, was charged with carrying a loaded gun. In her ruling, Judge […]
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