New York Attorney General Letitia James has taken over the criminal investigation into allegations that seven Cornell University fraternity members drugged and gang-raped a student in 2024, after New York Gov. Kathy Hochul removed the local district attorney from the case.The intervention comes only days after Tompkins County District Attorney... Read More »
The family of Renee Good has filed two federal lawsuits over her fatal shooting by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis, including a civil rights case against ICE agent Jonathan Ross and senior Trump administration officials that invokes provisions of the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan Act.The lawsuits, filed... Read More »
Lil Durk’s second federal trial has been pushed to August 30, 2027, extending the rapper’s legal battle nearly a year after his acquittal in the murder-for-hire case involving fellow rapper Quando Rondo.U.S. District Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald approved the delay on September 30, 2026, moving an October 5 trial date... Read More »
Barilla America has defeated a California consumer class action brought by shoppers who said its “Italy’s #1 Brand of Pasta” label led them to believe the pasta was made in Italy with Italian ingredients.U.S. Magistrate Judge Ajay Krishnan granted Barilla summary judgment on September 30, 2026, ending the California class... Read More »
The NFL has suspended San Francisco 49ers principal owner Jed York for six games and fined him $500,000 for violating the league’s Personal Conduct Policy after his August arrest in an Ohio prostitution case.York will miss three more games before he can return on October 20, 2026, after the NFL... Read More »
A Walgreens whistleblower who received more than $25 million from a federal fraud settlement must turn to state courts to pursue a share of the pharmacy chain’s separate $4.7 billion opioid settlement with states, a federal judge has ruled.U.S. District Judge Joan H. Lefkow of the Northern District of Illinois... Read More »
Federal prosecutors are urging a Manhattan judge to sentence Michael Smith to at least 46 months in prison for a six-year AI music streaming fraud that generated more than $8 million in royalties, rejecting his request for probation ahead of his October 6 sentencing.Smith, 54, pleaded guilty on March 16,... Read More »
New York Attorney General Letitia James has sued the organizers of Evolutions Festival, alleging they failed to refund more than $243,000 in advance ticket sales after canceling the 2025 event just 10 days before it was scheduled to begin. The complaint, filed September 29, names Evolutions Festival LLC, 845 Vibrations... Read More »
An Arizona appeals court has thrown out a 10.5-year manslaughter sentence after finding that a judge improperly relied on an AI-generated victim impact video that recreated shooting victim Christopher Pelkey speaking at the defendant’s sentencing.In a unanimous published opinion issued September 30 in State v. Horcasitas, the Arizona Court of... Read More »
A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to fast-track requests for Jeffrey Epstein investigative records that mention President Donald Trump or Mar-a-Lago, along with communications showing how senior DOJ and FBI officials handled the files.U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued the ruling on September 30, 2026, finding that the... Read More »