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Myanmar’s ousted leaders Aung San Suu Kyi and Win Myint have not been given their full “pre-trial rights,” according to a lawyer representing both of them.

The proceedings are part of a lawsuit lodged against the city and county by the L.A. Alliance for Human Rights, a group made up of downtown business owners and Skid Row residents.

A spokesperson for Shell said the company “fully expect to appeal today’s disappointing court decision.”

According to the lawsuit, a boy was told to run five laps around the field at Dodson Middle School, even though he told his teacher he had the flu and could not participate. The boy collapsed while running laps and was pronounced dead due to cardiac arrest.

President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats are vetting civil rights lawyers and public defenders to nominate as judges, embarking on a mission to shape the courts after Republicans overhauled them in the last four years, according to senior party officials and activists. Democrats have a wafer-thin Senate majority that gives them control over appointments, NBC News reports. They believe they have two...

A new report from Pew Charitable Trusts finds that the number of debt collection cases has risen significantly, but getting consumers to fight these cases in court is uncommon. Many people are unaware of the lawsuits and fail to respond, which can have major consequences.

Enemies and allies of President Donald Trump agree about his legacy on courts: Americans will be feeling the impact of Trump’s judicial appointments for decades to come

The judge’s decision is a crippling blow to Trump’s long-shot bid to invalidate enough ballots in multiple states to reverse Biden’s victory.

A U.S. district judge has ordered a new delay in federal executions, hours before the first lethal injection was scheduled to be carried out at a federal prison in Indiana

Attorneys and judges in U.S. immigration courts are trying to protect themselves from the coronavirus with borrowed masks and hand sanitizer.

The Trump administration can withhold millions of dollars in law enforcement grants to force states to cooperate with U.S. immigration enforcement, a federal appeals court in New York ruled Wednesday in a decision that conflicted with three other federal appeals courts. The ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan overturned a lower court’s decision ordering...

Lawyers for some state and local governments say the deal being offered by companies in a sweeping national settlement over the toll of opioids isn’t enough

A federal appeals court on Friday dismissed Democratic lawmakers’ lawsuit against President Donald Trump alleging he has violated the emoluments clause of the U.S. Constitution on technical grounds, NBC News reported. In their unsigned ruling, the judges cited Supreme Court precedent, noting the 215 lawmakers on the lawsuit are not the majority of Congress, and that they might have had standing...

The founder of an Arizona pharmaceutical company was sentenced in Boston’s federal court Thursday for his role in a bribery and kickback scheme that prosecutors said helped fuel the opioid crisis.