The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday that it has begun distributing compensation to victims of Bernie L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC's (BLMIS) Ponzi scheme. The first set of distributions involve $722.5 million that will...
The legal world is a busy place. Here are a few stories we didn't get to this week that we thought you might be interested in. The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit agreed Monday to...
A federal judge, on Thursday signed a settlement agreement ending a land dispute between private citizens and Texas officials against the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) over territory on the Red River. The landowners and state...
The US State Department announced Wednesday that it will end the Central American Minors (CAM) refugee program, an Obama-era immigration initiative that sought to resettle "children and eligible family members who are nationals of El Salvador, Guatemala, and...
Texas officials on Wednesday executed Rubén Cárdenas Ramírez, a Mexican national who was convicted in 1998 for the kidnap, rape and murder of his 16-year-old cousin, despite international pressure. The US Supreme Court had denied a writ of...
Ohio voters on Tuesday approved an amendment that will give Ohio crime victims more Constitutional rights. Issue 1 passed with over 82 percent of the vote , giving crime victims more rights and requiring that those...
A three-judge panel for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania denied in part a motion to dismiss filed by intervenor defendants in Agre v. Wolf , a Pennsylvania redistricting case....
The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday in Hamer v. Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago that a court-made time limitation rule was not jurisdictional. The issue was whether the US Court of Appeals for the...
Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the US District Court for the District of Columbia released an order Wednesday preventing all interested parties in the case against Paul Manafort Jr. and Richard Gates III from making certain statements to...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in Patchak v. Zinke . The case centers around whether Section 2(b) of the Gun Lake Act is an unconstitutional violation of Article III of...