A fund dedicated to aiding victims of sexual harassment and assault is giving $750,000 in grants to local organizations across the country. The Times Up Legal Defense Fund on Tuesday announced its first round of grants to 18 groups helping ...
Read More »Couple says hospital billing scheme spread to others
A $90 million billing scheme found last year at a rural Missouri hospital spread to as many as 10 other hospitals, according to lawsuit filed by a couple from suburban Kansas City. James and Phyllis Shaffer are suing Jorge Perez ...
Read More »Texas man in 3D-printed firearms case welcomes legal battle
Cody Wilson found his calling when, in 2013, he successfully fired the first gun made on a 3D printer. The Austin American-Statesman reports that very week, he dropped out of his second year at the University of Texas Law School, ...
Read More »Immigration cases tossed in fallout from high court ruling
Immigration courts from Boston to Los Angeles have been experiencing fallout from a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that has caused some deportation orders to be tossed and cases thrown out, bringing more chaos to a system that was already ...
Read More »Under new law, military kids get sex-assault protections
The Defense Department must improve the way it responds to child-on-child sexual assault at military bases in the U.S. and abroad as part of a sweeping new law President Donald Trump signed Monday. While the Pentagon began addressing sexual assault ...
Read More »Nebraska plans execution after about-face on death penalty
Three years after Nebraska lawmakers voted to abolish capital punishment, the state is preparing to carry out its first execution since 1997 on Tuesday in a bewildering about-face driven largely by the state’s Republican governor. Gov. Pete Ricketts, a wealthy ...
Read More »14-year-old boy uses legal quirk to run for Vermont governor
One of the four Vermont Democrats seeking the party nomination to run for governor in the fall election isn’t old enough to vote, let alone drive. Ethan Sonneborn, 14, of Bristol, met the requirements to be on the primary ballot ...
Read More »Columbia church racks up $884K in legal fees
Missouri taxpayers may be covering $884,000 in legal fees for a Columbia church’s U.S. Supreme Court case after a state agency denied its playground resurfacing. Attorney General Josh Hawley praised the high court ruling in favor of Trinity Lutheran Church ...
Read More »St. Louis DA win latest victory for Black Lives Matter
When LaShell Eikerenkoetter cast her vote for Wesley Bell in the St. Louis County Democratic primary on Tuesday, she took the spirit of Michael Brown with her to the ballot box. She had a sole purpose on Election Day: Get ...
Read More »Some Kavanaugh documents from Bush White House made public
The first documents from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s time in George W. Bush’s White House were released Thursday as the Senate begins to review the judge’s unusually lengthy public record for confirmation hearings this fall. The 5,700 pages from ...
Read More »Prosecutors: Judge wrong to scold them in front of jury
Prosecutors in Paul Manafort’s financial-fraud trial said Thursday that the judge presiding over the former Trump campaign chairman’s case incorrectly admonished them in front of the jury, and they want him to correct the error. Attorneys for special counsel Robert ...
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