Jan 12, 2024 · Ballot-counting machines from Dominion Voting are lined up at a Torrance County warehouse during a testing of election equipment in Estancia, N.M., on Sept. 29, 2022.

The creators of the documentary, “Finding Kendrick Johnson,” which explores the 2013 death of a high school student whose body was found inside an upright wrestling mat in his school’s gym, must face defamation by implication claims from a family who says the film represents that two brothers murdered Johnson and their father, who was an FBI agent, helped them cover it up.

Dec 20, 2024 · LOS ANGELES (CN) — Disgraced attorney Tom Girardi got a last-minute reprieve Friday, when a federal judge postponed his sentencing and instead scheduled a "psychiatric or psychological examination" to determine whether he "should be committed to a suitable facility in lieu of imprisonment.”

SAN DIEGO — A California congressman accuses the state of violating federal election laws by allowing mail-in votes to be received and counted seven days after Election Day. Representative Darrell Issa argues that the late-arriving mail in votes

WASHINGTON (CN) — Judges working within the federal bureaucracy could find themselves more vulnerable to the whims of political power after the Supreme Court reviews a case from a hedge fund manager accused of violating federal securities law.

Dec 24, 2024 · PHILADELPHIA (CN) — A nonviolent conviction from the mid-1990s shouldn't interfere with a Delaware man's right to arm himself, the Third Circuit ruled en banc, doubling down on a previous finding that was vacated by the U.S. Supreme Court. "We are pleased that the en banc Third Circuit has once again held that it is unconstitutional to disarm Bryan Range on the basis of a decades-old ...

Apr 10, 2025 · CINCINNATI — The Sixth Circuit reinstated a permanent injunction against the Ohio attorney general as requested by the drafters of a ballot initiative, who are likely to prevail on their First Amendment claims against a certification requirement that essentially gives the state’s top lawyer editorial control over the initiative and is not tailored to prevent misleading or fraudulent ...

May 9, 2023 · MANHATTAN (CN) — A jury of New Yorkers found Donald Trump liable Tuesday in a stunning end to the former president's federal trial on civil claims that he raped writer E. Jean Carroll in 1996.

Apr 7, 2025 · CHICAGO — A federal court in Illinois allowed an exonerated man to compel state attorneys to produce documents and materials related to the prosecution file against him. The man spent 30 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, so he brings a Monell claim against the city. Only one document he seeks is protected by the work product doctrine or deliberative process privilege, so the ...

Dec 30, 2024 · The president-elect unsuccessfully argued that jurors in his civil defamation and sexual abuse trial were erroneously shown evidence of other sexual assault charges, including the infamous 2005 Access Hollywood tape.