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Breaking legal news: Supreme Court decisions, major verdicts and settlements, and high-profile cases — reported from corroborated sources.
A FINRA arbitration panel has ordered Kingswood Capital Partners, LLC, the San Diego broker-dealer behind the Kingswood U.S. brand, to pay former f…
A Texas federal court held the NFA's registration requirements for suppressors and short-barreled firearms exceed Congress's authority after the ta…
Timothy G. Lynch succeeds Debra Zumwalt as Stanford's vice president and general counsel on August 31, 2026, closing her 26-year tenure. Jennifer Z…
The Justice Department sued Virginia and California, arguing new state limits on AR-15-style rifles and convertible pistols violate the Second Amen…
The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether states may ban AR-15-style rifles, taking up challenges to rifle bans in Connecticut and the Chicago area.
The DOJ and 17 states reached proposed settlements with three top egg producers over alleged price manipulation: $3.3 million and 53 million donate…
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to strike down federal caps on coordinated party spending, holding the decades-old limits violate the First Amendment.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld West Virginia and Idaho laws barring transgender athletes from girls' and women's sports, ruling the measures v…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down President Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, ruling 6-3 that nearly all childr…
Former NBA players Malik Beasley and Ed Davis were indicted Monday in Brooklyn federal court on charges they fixed Beasley's performance so co-cons…
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the president may fire independent agency members without cause, overturning the 91-year-old Humphrey's Executor p…
The company formerly known as Dominion Voting Systems settled and dismissed its $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell,…
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on June 25 to let the Trump administration end Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians and revive a border…
Disney agreed to a $50 million class-action settlement over claims it drove up prices for YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream. Subscribers between April…
A California appeals court affirmed Harvey Weinstein's 2022 Los Angeles sexual-assault conviction but threw out his 16-year sentence, ordering a ne…
The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a Hawaii law barring concealed-carry permit holders from bringing guns onto private property open to the…
The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that federal pesticide law preempts state failure-to-warn lawsuits over Roundup cancer warnings, a decision expected to…
Frank Carone, former chief of staff to ex-Mayor Eric Adams, and three others pleaded not guilty to federal bribery charges Wednesday.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Blanche v. Lau that border officers face a lower evidence bar when stopping green card holders accused of crimes.
A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 to let the Trump administration expand fast-track deportations nationwide, reversing a lower court that found the…
