The Supreme Court on Friday refused an emergency appeal from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign seeking to have his name added to New York’s ballot.

There are a handful of iconic courtroom dramas in the American theatrical canon. They include “12 Angry Men,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “Anatomy of a Murder,” “Witness for the Prosecution” and “Inherit ...

A California man who officials say threw a bag into a courthouse lobby that exploded, injuring five people this week, told law enforcement he had planned to kill deputies working security at the ...

A university student who was expelled after a classmate accused him of sexual assault failed to show the investigation and disciplinary proceedings that followed the accusation were tainted by ...

A retired attorney cannot pursue a defamation lawsuit alleging that he was falsely accused of sending an email containing racist statements to his former church, a state appellate panel held.

Where defendant created videos of minors showering that were clearly intended to provoke sexual response in the viewer, district court did not err in applying enhancements based on production of child ...

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was disbarred in Washington on Thursday, months after he lost his law license in New York for pursuing false claims that then-President Donald Trump made about ...

A settlement has been reached in a defamation lawsuit pitting an electronic voting machine manufacturer targeted by allies of former President Donald Trump against a conservative news outlet that ...

A federal judge cleared the way for a case involving a battle over the Walgreen name to proceed.In a written opinion, Chief U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Kendall of the Northern District of Illinois ...

In a case testing the limits of a state law designed to protect citizen participation in government, the Chicago Sun-Times is asking the Illinois Supreme Court to dismiss a defamation suit filed ...

Where nonresident defendant has sent allegedly defamatory letters to Illinois residents, he has purposely directed his activities to the state.

Where record did not contain sufficient evidence of sustained use of storage unit primarily for purposes of drug distribution to sustain sentencing enhancement for maintaining a drug premises.