Editor’s note: This is Day 4 of JURIST’s coverage of Mangione’s suppression hearings. Read Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3. On Day 4 of suppression hearings in the New York state case against Luigi Mangione, Altoona Police Officer Christy Wasser testified that she discovered a pistol, loaded magazine, and suppressor in Mangione’s backpack during [...]

Editor’s note: This is Day 3 of JURIST’s coverage of Luigi Mangione’s suppression hearings. Read Day 1 and Day 2. One year after the December 4 shooting of Brian Thompson, CEO of medical insurance company UnitedHealthcare, Luigi Mangione returned to court for day three of critical suppression hearings in his New York state case before [...]

Editor’s note: This is Day 2 of JURIST’s coverage of Mangione’s suppression hearings. Read Day 1 here. On day two of the suppression hearings in the New York state case against Luigi Mangione, accused of fatally shooting Brian Thompson, CEO of medical insurance company UnitedHealthcare, in December 2024, prosecutors devoted the day to a single [...]

Editor’s note: This is Day 1 of JURIST’s coverage of Mangione’s suppression hearings. Read Day 2 here. The New York State case against Luigi Mangione, suspect of the December 4, 2024 shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, saw its first evidentiary suppression hearing on Monday. The high-stakes hearings are expected to last approximately five days [...]

Cornell University announced on Friday that it has reached a settlement with US President Donald Trump’s administration to adopt the administration’s interpretation of federal civil rights laws, and to pay $60 million. In exchange, the federal government will restore Cornell’s federal research funding and end ongoing investigations. President Michael I. Kotlikoff wrote: “The decades-long research [...]

The US government plans to deport Kilmar Ábrego García to Liberia as soon as Oct. 31, according to a Friday court filing by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), despite a series of federal court rebukes over his wrongful deportation case. A Salvadoran national who has resided in Maryland for more than a decade, Ábrego [...]

New York Attorney General Letitia James on Friday pleaded not guilty in federal court to one count of bank fraud and one count of making false statements to a financial institution. The indictment alleges that in 2020, James purchased a property in Norfolk, Virginia, for approximately $137,000, and falsely represented it as a second home—rather [...]

US President Donald Trump announced the commutation of former New York Congressman George Santos’ prison sentence on Friday, ordering his immediate release. In a post on Truth Social, President Trump argued that Santos had been “horribly mistreated” in prison and that his sentence was excessive. He also referenced Santos’ history of supporting the Republican Party, [...]

The UK Court of Appeal ruled on Friday that the British activist group Palestine Action may proceed with its legal challenge against the government’s decision to ban it under the Terrorism Act 2000. Judge Sue Carr rejected the Home Office’s attempt to block the review, allowing co-founder Huda Ammori to bring the case before the [...]

United Kingdom Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson announced on Sunday that she had issued a letter to vice-chancellors across the country, calling for universities to intensify their policies and practices to counter antisemitism on campuses. “Universities, just like everyone else in the country, have a clear role to play: not just keeping Jewish students safe, but as [...]