(NEW YORK) -- The arrest of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was a "targeted, retaliatory detention and attempted removal of a student protestor because of his constitutionally protected speech," his attorneys said Thursday in a new petition seeking his immediate release.Khalil, a leader of the...
(WASHINGTON) -- The Trump administration could be sanctioned by a federal judge later this week after lawyers with the Department of Justice advised a federal judge Tuesday evening that they will not make a top administration official available for sworn testimony.U.S. District Judge Charles...
Lawyers for the man accused of killing four Idaho college students are asking the judge in his capital murder case to ban a key witness from using the phrase "bushy eyebrows" to describe the assailant she saw the night of the bloody attack.That request...
(WASHINGTON) -- Less than an hour after President Donald Trump finished his joint address to Congress on Tuesday, lawyers cited his words as evidence in a lawsuit challenging Elon Musk's role in the administration's drastic cuts to federal spending, workers and services.Lawyers representing a...
Blake Lively's lawyers have issued a statement amid the ongoing legal feud between her and Justin Baldoni.In the new statement, released Jan. 7, Lively's lawyers said, "Ms. Lively's federal litigation before the Southern District of New York involves serious claims of sexual harassment and...
(NEW YORK) -- The only path forward in Donald Trump's criminal hush money case in New York is vacating his conviction and dismissing the case prior to Trump taking office, lawyers for the president-elect argued in a court filing unsealed Friday.Trump's lawyers, responding to...
(MEMPHIS, Tenn.) -- Attorneys for two of the three former Memphis police officers facing charges in the January 2023 beating death of Tyre Nichols rested their cases on Monday.Demetrius Haley's and Tadarrius Bean's lawyers said they wouldn't call any more witnesses to the stand,...