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Law (US)

  • a courtroom sketch shows Nicolas Maduro and his wife in court

    Nicolás Maduro and his wife indicted for alleged torture of US citizens

  • A man looks off to the side in a sepia-toned photo.

    Florida judge allows lawsuit against Shah of Iran’s alleged ‘chief torturer’ to move forward

  • woman stands and holds man's arms as he sits on couch in home

    Our unequal earth
    Heatstroke ruined his health. Years before, it took the life of another farm worker at the same company

    A farm labor contractor exposed laborers on H-2A agricultural visas to heat-related health hazards, but the contractor is still bringing hundreds of migrant farm workers to North Carolina
  • The golden arches outside a McDonald's

    McDonald’s sued for allegedly using AI tool to determine pricing for franchises

    Suit says AI tool allows independently owned franchises to exchange nonpublic price and sales information
  • A courthouse

    A New Orleans judge wanted to press charges against a TV news station. But it hadn’t violated any law

    Kimya Holmes relied on a repealed law to force WWL Louisiana to remove details of a gift she received from a man accused of pandemic-relief fraud
  • Dolly Parton sits in an armchair, wearing a red and black top and lace trousers

    Dolly Parton’s estate alleges her nephew used barbed wire to avoid being served

    Court filing alleges Bryan Seaver, star’s ex-security head, had also posted no trespassing signs to thwart serving of lawsuit
  • A woman holds an American flag and a printout of the oath of allegiance next to a manila envelope

    US justice department moves to strip citizenship of 40 naturalized citizens

    Officials file ‘denaturalization actions’ against people accused of crimes in what they call ‘largest’ such initiative
  • Ike Sant, a bearded, tattooed man in a beanie, stands by a lake amid greenery

    Building power
    Trump 2.0 is targeting US protesters with ‘antifa’ charges. Activists started a union to fight back

    NSPM-7 Defendants Union plans to offer legal clinics, media training and more to people facing prosecution for protest
  • a man in a suit

    Former American Idol contestant and pastor sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife

    Prosecutors had said Caleb Flynn staged a home invasion after shooting his wife while he was having an affair
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    Democracy, climate and justice
    US supreme court hears big oil’s bid to block climate damage lawsuits

    How the court will lean is unclear amid Suncor Energy and ExxonMobil’s attempt to stop lawsuits at state level
  • A man in white vestment robes on a sunny suburban street.

    Catholic priest given life sentence for sexual assault in Texas found to have neglected daughter

    Child of Anthony Odiong, born in 2023, did not have car seat while cleric spent $20,000 on phone calls from jail
  • FILE PHOTO: Cornell University campus in Ithaca, New YorkFILE PHOTO: Cornell University’s Chi Phi fraternity house in Ithaca, New York, US, September 29, 2026. REUTERS/Lauren Petracca/File Photo

    Woman in Cornell rape allegations case targeted with threats, her lawyer says

    Attorney says people have threatened to silence or harm ‘Jane Doe’ if she does not withdraw civil lawsuit
  • people hold signs that say 'no means no'

    Before Cornell turmoil, successive US administrations seesawed in attitudes towards campus assaults

    Federal government has struggled to affect lasting change in how accusers and accused are treated in higher education
  • Man in suit

    Conservative US supreme court justice Samuel Alito hints at retirement in interview

    Alito, 76, delivers comment in rare interview with CBS News scheduled to air on Monday
  • a person holds a sign that reads 'protect us from predators'

    ‘Sadness, cynicism and deep disappointment’: the Cornell gang-rape case and the failure of #MeToo

  • Rebecca Solnit

    double quotation markWe live in a rape-prone society. The horrific Cornell case reveals what that looks like

    Rebecca Solnit
  • A close-up of the FBI seal, reading 'Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation'.

    US arrests California man for allegedly smuggling $300m worth of computer servers to China

  • a man stands behind a gate and looks at construction equipment and a partially built border fence

    Building power
    A small Texas town stopped Trump’s border wall construction – for now

  • Man in suit on street speaking.

    California outlaws child marriage, joining 17 other US states

  • Botham Jean, bearded and in glasses, sings into a microphone while gesturing

    Former Dallas police officer convicted of murdering Black neighbor given early parole

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