(Headline USA) The city of Minneapolis on Friday agreed to pay $27 million to settle a civil lawsuit from George Floyd’s family over his death in police custody, as jury selection continued in a former officer’s murder trial.
The Minneapolis City Council emerged from closed session to announce the settlement. Floyd...
(Headline USA) A judge on Thursday granted prosecutors’ request to add a third-degree murder charge against a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death, a move that offers jurors an additional option for conviction and finally resolves an issue that might have delayed his trial for months.
Hennepin County...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court said Thursday it has called off upcoming arguments over a Trump administration plan to remake Medicaid by requiring recipients to work, agreeing to a request from the Biden administration.
The court had been scheduled to take up the issue on March 29.
But the Biden administration already...
(Headline USA) A Trump-era immigration rule denying green cards to immigrants who use public benefits like food stamps was dealt likely fatal blows Tuesday after the Biden administration dropped legal challenges, including before the Supreme Court.
Continuing to defend the rule “is neither in the public interest nor an efficient use...
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in late February that lawyers can proceed to trial in their lawsuit against the Oregon State Bar, which forces them to join and then fund the organization's progressive agenda, WND reported.
A district court judge earlier had said the lawsuit, Crowe v. Oregon...
(Headline USA) Twitter has filed a lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, claiming the Republican used his office to retaliate against it for banning the account of former President Donald Trump following the siege at the U.S. Capitol.
Days after the deadly January insurrection, Paxton announced an investigation into Twitter...
(Headline USA) Hundreds of people gathered Monday outside the fortified courthouse for the first day of the trial of a former police officer charged in George Floyd's death, with chants of “No justice, no peace!” and speakers imploring the jurors to “do the right thing.”
In the wake of the...
(Associated Press) The Supreme Court is reviving a lawsuit brought by a Georgia college student who sued school officials after being prevented from distributing Christian literature on campus.
The high court sided 8-1 with the student, Chike Uzuegbunam, and against Georgia Gwinnett College.
Uzuegbunam has since graduated, and the public school in...
Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., has filed a lawsuit against former President Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and several pro-Trump allies over their role in the Jan. 6 Capitol siege.
In a 65-page complaint filed in federal court in Washington, D.C. on Friday, Swalwell accuses Trump, his eldest son, Rep. Mo Brooks,...
In a pending Supreme Court case, the Biden administration and several prominent, leftist civil-rights groups piled on criticism of the California attorney general's office over its cavalier mishandling of donor data.
The crux of the issue in Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Becerra and a companion case from the Thomas...
(Associated Press) The Supreme Court on Thursday made it harder for longtime immigrants who have been convicted of a crime to avoid deportation.
Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the opinion for a 5-3 conservative majority that ruled against a Mexican citizen who entered the U.S. illegally and has lived in the country...
(Headline USA) A U.S. Army deserter is asking a federal judge to overturn his military conviction now that former president Donald Trump is out of office.
Bowe Bergdahl was court martialed after he left his post in Afghanistan and was captured by the Taliban.
But he said his trial was unduly...