Washington, D.C., officials reached a $3.5 million settlement with the family of Terrence Sterling, an unarmed motorcyclist who was fatally shot in 2016 by a D.C. police officer during an attempted arrest for reckless driving, reports the Washington Post. The settlement in the wrongful-death lawsuit...
The oral argument in Dahda v. United States started off on a bad note for Los Rovell Dahda, who was represented by Kannon Shanmugam. Shanmugam was asking the court to find that a wiretap order was “insufficient on its face,” and therefore triggered Title III...
The ranks of black nationalist hate groups – groups that have always been a reaction to white racism – expanded to 233 chapters in 2017, from 193 the previous year, reports the Southern Poverty Law Center. Even with the growth, black nationalist groups lagged far...
It was a tally so impressive that President Trump touted it in his State of the Union address: Since May, agents cracking down on violent gangs terrorizing the working-class suburbs of Long Island had swept up 428 suspects, including 220 members of the notorious MS-13....
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced new Department of Justice policies to advance forensic science at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences 70th Annual Scientific Meeting in Seattle, the department says. The new guidance implements quality assurance measures based on science-informed practices, enhances forensic capacity...
Sometimes, an appellate court uses oral argument to help it decide who ought to win. Other times, the justices know who will win, and oral argument becomes an opportunity for the judges to use counsel as a sounding board as to how the opinion should...