State Requests Dismissal of Lawsuit Over Law's Effective Date Alabama’s Attorney General’s office has clarified that a recently passed state law expanding the list of felonies that disqualify individuals from voting will not affect the upcoming 2024 election. In a court filing on Friday, the state requested the dismissal of...

Chrystul Kizer's Case Draws National Attention Chrystul Kizer, a Milwaukee woman who claimed she killed a man because he was sexually trafficking her, was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Monday after pleading guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree reckless homicide. The case has drawn significant national attention...

Federal Judge Grants Emergency Relief for Transgender Student A federal judge temporarily cleared the way on Monday for a 15-year-old transgender girl to play soccer for her high school team in New Hampshire, amid a legal challenge to the state’s recently enacted "Fairness in Women’s Sports Act." The ruling came...

Largest Settlement in Seven-Year Antitrust Case Pilgrim's Pride, one of the largest poultry processors in the United States, has agreed to pay $100 million to settle claims that it conspired with other industry giants to underpay chicken farmers. The settlement, which is the final and by far the largest in...

Allegations of "Large-Scale Theft" in AI Training A group of authors has filed a lawsuit against AI startup Anthropic, accusing the company of "large-scale theft" in training its chatbot, Claude, using pirated copies of copyrighted books. This marks the first lawsuit of its kind against Anthropic, as similar cases have...

Former Politician Accused of Pre-Meditated Murder A Nevada jury was presented with evidence on Monday showing that a former local Democratic politician, Robert Telles, had collected hundreds of photos of slain investigative journalist Jeff German's home and neighborhood before the reporter’s death. Prosecutors allege that Telles, who had been the...

Allegations of Abuse at Rural Kansas School A lawsuit filed in federal court on Friday accuses a Kansas school employee of repeatedly abusing a 15-year-old student with Down syndrome. The allegations include locking the teenager in a utility closet, striking him, and once confining him in a storage cage meant...

Prosecutors File for Capital Punishment South Carolina prosecutors have announced their intention to seek the death penalty against James Douglas Drayton, a 26-year-old man accused of killing five people in Inman nearly two years ago. The 7th Circuit Solicitor’s Office filed a motion last week indicating their plans to pursue...

Revival of a Decade-Old Case More than a decade after McKenzie Cochran's death during a struggle with security guards at a suburban Detroit shopping mall, four guards are now facing trial. The case, which was initially dismissed by the Oakland County prosecutor in 2014, was revived in 2021 when Michigan...

Ron Carr Sentenced for Bias-Motivated Crimes Ron Carr, a 35-year-old resident of Manchester Township, New Jersey, has been sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to charges related to arson and antisemitic graffiti incidents in 2023. The sentencing, announced by Ocean County prosecutors on Friday, includes terms for...

Settlement Reached in Federal Lawsuit The family of Joseph Pettaway, a 50-year-old man killed by a police dog in Montgomery, Alabama, has agreed to settle its federal lawsuit against Officer Nicholas Barber, who was responsible for the K9 that fatally attacked Pettaway in 2018. The confidential settlement was reached in...