A district court dropped all criminal charges filed against six Michigan hairstylists who defied Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s coronavirus lockdown last May.
Judge Kristen Simmons rejected Whitmer and Attorney General Dana Nessel’s attempt to punish several of the hairstylists who participated in “Operation Haircut,” an event last year during which hundreds...
(Headline USA) Los Angeles County prosecutors took the progressive new district attorney to court and won a ruling Monday blocking some criminal justice reforms he instituted to reduce prison sentences.
Superior Court Judge James Chalfant issued a preliminary injunction blocking some directives District Attorney George Gascon issued to end enhancements that...
Dominion Voting Systems spokesman Michael Steel threatened Mike Lindell again, saying the MyPillow CEO is “begging to be sued” for defamation over his allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election.
When asked if Dominion will file more lawsuits in addition to those it has filed against pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell...
(Associated Press) The Supreme Court is telling California that it can't bar indoor church services because of the coronavirus pandemic, but it can keep for now a ban on singing and chanting indoors.
The high court issued orders late Friday in two cases where churches had sued over coronavirus-related restrictions in...
(Headline USA) An 18-year-old from Illinois who's accused of killing two people and wounding a third during a riot in Wisconsin last summer fired a California attorney who solicited money for his case.
John Pierce, a Los Angeles lawyer, had been at the forefront of Kyle Rittenhouse's defense, helping raise money...
(Headline USA) Minnesota Senate Republicans on Thursday offered a counterproposal to Democratic Gov. Tim Walz's request for security funding ahead of next month's murder trial for the former police officer charged with killing George Floyd.
The Republican proposal would target Minneapolis by requiring cities to pay for assistance provided by other...
(Associated Press) Financier Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriend claims she is being prosecuted on sex abuse charges that could put her in prison for life because Epstein killed himself and prosecutors wanted a substitute to replace him with, lawyers said in newly unsealed court papers.
Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers challenged the case brought against...
(Headline USA) A voting technology company is suing Fox News, three of its hosts and two former lawyers for former President Donald Trump — Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell — for $2.7 billion, charging that the defendants conspired to spread false claims that the company helped “steal” the U.S. presidential election.
The...
Even as sanctimonious Democrats in Congress accuse their GOP colleagues of treason and attempted murder for raising legitimate questions of vote fraud in the 2020 election, the Democrats' top election litigation lawyer is continuing to follow their longtime playbook.
Perkins Coie attorney Marc Elias, notorious for flooding the legal system...
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is calling for the disbarment of four lawyers who challenged the state’s presidential election results in court.
Whitmer, joined by the state’s attorney general Dana Nessel and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, filed a complaint with the Attorney Grievance Commission in Michigan on Monday in an...
(Headline USA) The Justice Department on Wednesday dropped its discrimination lawsuit against Yale University that had alleged the university illegally discriminated against Asian American and white applicants.
The Justice Department noted in its filing that it was voluntarily dismissing the action, filed in October under the Trump administration.
A judge must still...
President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats said they will use the next two years to "repair the courts"—a phrase that they have adopted to disguise their intention to abandon precedent and fill the federal judiciary with Democratic Party activists.
"I call it repair the courts," said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.,...