Last Wednesday, a New York City man pleaded not guilty in a U.S. District Court on federal charges brought against him for threatening Biden supporters during the U.S. Presidential election. The indictment also lists the charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Brian Maiorana is... Read More »
Chemistry student Yukai Yang, 24, of China, has pled guilty to attempted first-degree murder and other related charges against his roommate, Juwan Royal. Juwan Royal, a black student who roomed with Yang at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA, was the victim of repeated poisoning with the heavy metal thallium. The... Read More »
A federal grand jury has indicted the captain of a dive boat that caught fire and sank off the coast of California last September. The 67-year-old captain, Jerry Nehl Boylan, was indicted on 34 counts of negligent seaman’s manslaughter. The incident took place during the early hours of September 2nd,... Read More »
A Fort Worth, Texas woman is seeking to get her conviction of illegal voting charges overturned by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Crystal Mason, a Black woman from Fort Worth, Texas, cast a provisional ballot in the 2016 presidential election. Mason says she cast her provisional ballot on the... Read More »
On November 30, a Transportation Security Administration employee filed a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. federal government. The lawsuit alleges that the government has deprived TSA workers of required hazard pay and environmental discharge pay for work done at airports during the pandemic. The TSA employee who filed the lawsuit... Read More »
Late last Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court voted in a narrow decision of 5-4 blocking the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, from strictly limiting the number of people congregating in areas of worship, including churches and synagogues. The governor of New York implemented these restrictive measures after the state... Read More »
Several groups of nonprofit environmental advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit against California. The lawsuit is in opposition to a new dam that is set to be built in the Del Puerto Canyon. The lawsuit was filed by the Sierra Club, the California Native Plant Society, Friends of the River,... Read More »
The Department of Justice has quietly amended current execution protocols. The amended rule was published Friday, November, 27th and will go into effect on December 24. Different states currently allow different types of executions, and with the amendment, lethal injections will no longer have to be the primary method of... Read More »
A California DMV license plate standard that bans offensive license plates has been ruled unconstitutional and a violation of the First Amendment's freedom of speech by federal judge Sallie Kim. The current standard stipulates that the DMV must approve license plates with potentially offensive language before the plates can be... Read More »
The New York Task Force on Women in the Courts issued a report in 1968 that looked at the treatment and experiences of female attorneys, litigants, and other court employees in the state. The report yielded results showing that women were denied opportunities in professional capacities, equal treatment, and justice... Read More »
Earlier this Thanksgiving holiday week, the District Attorney of San Francisco, Chesa Boudin, announced that homicide charges would be filed against former police officer Chris Samayoa for fatally shooting an unarmed carjacking suspect, 42-year-old Keita O'Neil. The shooting took place three years ago on December 1, 2017. Samayoa was a... Read More »
California is investigating one of the biggest fraudulent unemployment cases in its history. Over $140 million in fraudulent unemployment claims have been filed by inmates in state prisons and county jails across the state. Governor Gavin Newsom has come under fire by the district attorneys of nine California counties. The... Read More »
Legal advocates and homeless families filed a class-action lawsuit against the City of New York in a Manhattan Federal Court on November 24th. The lawsuit argues that the City failed to provide reliable internet access for children attending distance learning in homeless shelters. As the nation's largest school district prepares... Read More »
Two Texas area men have been criminally charged with trying to sell 50 million nonexistent N95 respirator masks to a foreign government. The U.S. Department of Justice shared on Tuesday that the men did not actually have the masks in their possession and were selling them at five times their... Read More »
A phone call helped crack a murder case that went unsolved for over 25 years. The phone call was made by none other than the killer himself, Johnny Dwight Whited. Whited, 53 resides in Trinity, Alabama, and is living with a terminal illness. Whited made the phone call to the... Read More »
