The Latest Breaking News from Lawsuit

North Carolina’s Supreme Court has determined the local chapter of United Daughters of the Confederacy lacks standing to challenge the city of Winston-Salem’s removal of a Confederate monument on private property, but it can refile a future lawsuit making similar arguments

The New York City police department reached a legal settlement Friday that requires it to abandon a practice in which officers use prolonged street stops to check for arrest warrants and ties to other cases, a tactic critics denounced as “digital stop and frisk.”

Since late 2019, Ballotpedia has tracked close to 200 federal lawsuits related to public-sector unions. Today, we’ll take a look at the state of litigation at the end of 2022 and highlight a selection of cases with recent activity in the district and circuit courts.

City councils are typically nonpartisan. Odessa residents are wondering if that’s still the case after the local Republican Party helped elect new council members.

Oberlin College has finished paying out a $25 million judgment to an Ohio bakery that won a libel lawsuit against the school after a shoplifting incident involving three Black students

Bungie, Take-Two and others cite potential copyright infringement

The legal troubles are just the latest of Mr Cawthorn’s woes

Miss Cleo, the face of the Psychic Readers Network, spent years imploring late-night television viewers to call a 1-800 number. Then a fraud lawsuit plagued the company and hotline. Miss Cleo mostly vanished. Now, there’s a new HBO Max documentary that investigates her life, Sheila Flynn reports

CHICAGO — A Chicago police officer was fired late Thursday for his role 18 years ago in one of the biggest scandals in department history.

MIAMI — A lawsuit filed Thursday accuses Miami of creating racially segregated districts when officials redrew the boundaries of the city’s voting map in the spring, a controversial process that drew opposition from neighborhood groups over concerns that the plan weakened the political power of Black voters in Coconut Grove.

A woman who accused a former top adviser to New York Attorney General Letitia James of unwanted kissing, hastening his Dec. 2 exit, filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging that James and her office enabled the man’s behavior by ignoring previous warnings about him