Former Vice President Joe Biden’s niece avoided jail on Thursday after a Manhattan Criminal Court judge sentenced her to two years’ probation for stealing more than $100,000 in a credit card scam.
More than 300 rape convictions will be reviewed after concerns about politically correct police being “hostile” to men and “deliberately” withholding evidence to send them to jail.
“Society is continuously changing and family structures are changing along with it,” wrote Justice Robert Fowler of the Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court’s family division in his decision, reports the Canadian Press. “This must be recognized as a reality and not as a detriment to the best interests of the child.”
Senate Republicans are launching an aggressive push to confirm as many of President Trump’s judicial nominees as possible before the midterm elections, including confirming two new judges – Michael Brennan and Kurt Engelhardt – to the powerful federal appeals courts this week.
LONDON (AP) — Alfie Evans, a British toddler with a degenerative brain condition whose parents lost a legal battle to keep him on life support at a Vatican hospital, was mourned with balloons set free in the sky and prayers from the pope after he died Saturday weeks shy of his second birthday.
BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s Constitutional Court says it will consider whether a third gender should be an option for official records, taking up the case of a person who unsuccessfully sought to have their entry changed to “inter” or a similar word.
The National Rifle Association (NRA) sued the State of Florida late Friday, asserting that the state’s changing the age for purchasing all firearms from 18 to 21 violates the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
A GoFundMe page for a sexual abuse victim’s father who in court Friday lunged at disgraced U.S. Olympics Gymnastics Dr. Larry Nassar, received more than $31,000 in donations in 24 hours.
A San Francisco federal appeals court ruled Twitter is not responsible for the ISIS murder of two Americans.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday in favor of Joan Larsen and Amy Coney Barrett to be federal appeals judges. Pundits say this committee action increases pressure on Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans to reform procedural roadblocks so that senators can vote on the Senate floor to confirm the growing number of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees.
A motorcycle club is making it their mission to support victims of child abuse who are testifying in court against their abusers.
City attorneys in San Francisco and Oakland, California, sued five oil companies in two coordinated lawsuits on Tuesday, arguing that the courts should hold these companies responsible for climate change, and force them to financially compensate the cities for harm the plaintiffs claim those companies are causing to the planet’s environment.
There is a growing backlash from adherents of multiple faiths to Senate Democrats’ raising the religious faiths of President Donald Trump’s nominees to determine whether the Senate should confirm them, citing such objections as a flagrant violation of the Constitution’s Religious Test Clause.
A man accused of preaching strict sharia law on London’s Oxford Street has been ordered to stand in court by a judge after saying he only answered to Allah.
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s highest court has ruled that authorities are entitled to deport an Algerian man suspected of posing a risk of a terrorist attack.
A former Connecticut high school teacher appeared in court Tuesday alongside her husband after she was accused of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old special education student.
Facebook is opposing a gag order placed on them by the US government relating to the public discussion of search warrants seeking their communications and data.
Ten progressive judges in Virginia have decided that Muslims can ask judges to block or change the nation’s national security and immigration policies whenever prior campaign promises in democratic political elections can be described as unfair to Muslims living in America.
The trial of a mechanic accused of terror-related offences has been delayed so he can fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
A Detroit judge threw the mother of a drunk driver being sentenced for killing a man out of her courtroom and into jail after she laughed at the victim’s family during a statement from the victim’s sister.
BERLIN (AP) — A former Iraqi army soldier has admitted at the start of his war-crimes trial in Germany that he posed for a photo holding the severed heads of two Islamic State fighters killed in combat, but said he was only following orders.
(AFP) – The family of Hasna Aitboulahcen, a cousin of alleged Paris attacks ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud who helped him on the run and died with him in a police raid, have filed a murder complaint, their lawyer said. The young
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his sons, Gamal and Alaa, were found guilty of corruption in 2014 for embezzling millions of dollars from the national treasury. The case was retried last May, ending in another guilty verdict, which was upheld on Saturday after an appeal.
The two Oregon cake-makers charged with discriminating against a lesbian couple say they are continuing to fight for their legal rights, despite misleading media reports.
A London court has cleared a rich Saudi Arabian immigrant of raping an 18-year-old girl as she slept. He argued that he accidentally tripped and penetrated her with his erect penis, which just happened to be protruding from his underwear. “I
The U.S. Constitution allows a large Latin cross to stay as the centerpiece of the Bladensburg World War I Veterans Memorial, a federal court in Maryland ruled Monday.
The White House reacted quickly to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal’s ruling, which effectively allowed a legal block to the continuation of President Obama’s executive amnesty.
A federal court has again blocked Obama’s executive orders giving quasi-legal status and work permits to millions of illegal immigrants, an action that critics say is an illicit backdoor amnesty plan.
The Court of Cassation, Italy’s highest court, has ruled that it is acceptable, and not a sackable offence, for workers to watch porn on their lunch breaks. The Supreme Court overruled a decision by a lower court sanctioning the sacking
In the ongoing controversy over a monument dedicated to the Ten Commandments, currently standing next to the state Capitol in Oklahoma, a judge has now given the state 30 days to remove the edifice from the Capitol grounds.
A man accused of murder shocked a courtroom in Wilmington, North Carolina, by openly mocking the victim’s family as they sat watching the proceedings.
The leadership of Greece’s nationalist Golden Dawn party went to court Monday for the first day of what is expected to be a long trial of unprecedented scope for the nation. Golden Dawn’s leadership, who have exhibited Neo-Nazi sympathies, are being accused of running a criminal organization masked as a political party.
A Denton County, Texas judge has once again tossed out a ruling by the Texas Ethics Commission (TEC) against Empower Texans President Michael Quinn Sullivan that claimed that he had improperly failed to register as a lobbyist. The court’s ruling, affirmed the previous dismissal of the case by another Denton County judge, 158th District Court Judge Steve Burgess, finding that the TEC’s actions against Sullivan violated the Citizen’s Participation Act.
The Obama administration is reversing course, and will seek an emergency stay that would overturn an injunction, issued by a federal judge, that’s blocking President Obama’s executive amnesty.
Celebrated film director and expatriate Roman Polanski, 81, failed in another attempt to have a court dismiss decades-old sexual assault charges against him so he can return to the United States. On Tuesday, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James
