WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether states can use juries made up of only six people in criminal cases, instead…
Read more Supreme Court will decide whether criminal cases must have 12 jurors in Florida caseFor years, social media companies have disputed allegations that they harm children’s mental health through deliberate design choices that addict kids to their platforms and fail to protect…
Read more Social media companies face legal reckoning over mental health harms to childrenLOS ANGELES — The world’s biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their…
Read more Arguments to begin in landmark social media addiction trial set in Los AngelesLAS VEGAS — A Nevada jury on Friday convicted “Dances With Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse of sexually assaulting Indigenous women and girls in a case that sent…
Read more ‘Dances With Wolves’ actor Nathan Chasing Horse convicted on sexual assault chargesLAS VEGAS — A Nevada jury on Friday convicted “Dances With Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse of sexually assaulting Indigenous women and girls in a case that sent…
Read more ‘Dances With Wolves’ actor Nathan Chasing Horse convicted on sexual assault chargesThree of the world’s biggest tech companies face a landmark trial in Los Angeles starting this week over claims that their platforms — Meta’s Instagram, ByteDance’s TikTok and…
Read more Meta, TikTok and YouTube face landmark trial over youth addiction claimsNEW YORK — The brothers operated in the glitz and glamour of the Hamptons and South Beach. Two were high-end real estate brokers dubbed “The A Team.” The…
Read more ‘A Team’ of real estate brokers faces sex crimes trial in New YorkUTICA, N.Y. — A New York prison guard who failed to intervene as he watched an inmate being beaten to death should be convicted of manslaughter, a prosecutor…
Read more Prosecutor argues New York prison guard’s inaction contributed to inmate’s deathLAS VEGAS — The jury trial for Nathan Chasing Horse, the former “Dances with Wolves” actor accused of sexually abusing Indigenous women and girls, is expected to begin…
Read more ‘Dances with Wolves’ actor Nathan Chasing Horse standing trial in Las VegasNEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein returns to court Thursday, seeking to get his latest sex crime conviction thrown out because anger and apprehensions flared…
Read more Harvey Weinstein says jurors were bullied into convicting him. A judge is set to ruleEmbattled Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan, who was convicted of obstruction last month for helping an immigrant evade federal officers, has sent her resignation letter to the governor. The…
Read more Judge convicted of obstructing immigrant arrest resigns as GOP threatens impeachmentNEW YORK — Lawyers for hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs urged a federal appeals court in New York late Tuesday to order his immediate release from prison and…
Read more Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs seeks immediate release from prison in appeals argumentMADISON, Wis. — Defenders of a Wisconsin judge found guilty of felony obstruction for helping a Mexican immigrant evade federal officers raised alarms Friday about judicial independence and…
Read more Advocates raise alarms after Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan found guilty of obstructionA Los Angeles jury awarded $40 million on Friday to two women who claimed that talcum powder made by Johnson & Johnson caused their ovarian cancer. The giant…
Read more Jury says Johnson & Johnson owes $40M to 2 cancer patients who used talcum powdersWASHINGTON — Grammy-winning rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel of the Fugees was sentenced on Thursday to 14 years in prison for a case in which he was convicted of…
Read more Fugees rapper sentenced to prison over illegal donations to Obama campaignBUFFALO, N.Y. — A federal jury awarded $80 million Wednesday to the estate of a Buffalo man whose conviction in a 1976 murder was overturned after he spent…
Read more Federal jury awards $80 million to estate of NY man wrongfully convicted of murderCOLUMBUS, Ohio — Closing arguments in the murder trial of an Ohio officer charged in the shooting death of a pregnant Black mother killed in a supermarket parking…
Read more Jurors to hear closing arguments in Ohio trial of officer charged in killingLOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES (AP) — “That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson filed a petition Monday for his two rape convictions and long prison sentence to be…
Read more Actor Danny Masterson asks for rape convictions to be tossed over lawyer errorsNEW YORK — Three men were arrested Monday for allegedly trying to pay up to $100,000 in cash to a juror at the Brooklyn drug trial of a…
Read more Alleged plot to bribe a juror with $100,000 upends former heavyweight boxer’s NYC drug trialNEW YORK — Prosecutors urged a judge on Wednesday to reject Harvey Weinstein ’s claims that his June sexual assault conviction was marred by threats and bullying among…
Read more Harvey Weinstein prosecutors say defense’s jury misconduct claims are ‘implausible’
