Without discussion the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved a $14 million settlement of a lawsuit filed by a man who spent more than two decades behind bars following his wrongful ...

Attorneys Johnnie Cochran Jr. and Stuart Hanlon would spend decades working to free former Black Panther Geronimo Pratt, who ...

Los Angeles County’s Board of Supervisors agreed to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit for $14 million Tuesday morning ...

His attorneys alleged detectives were unable to identify a clear suspect and “decided to invent a suspect themselves and make ...

A man was convicted and deported to Mexico, and at least 26 other people have been arrested under a Florida immigration law that officials were ordered not to enforce.

The exchanges unfolded at a hearing in Federal District Court in Nashville intended to determine whether Kilmar Armando ...

The veteran federal prosecutor who worked on the Epstein case got the axe, but it hasn’t quieted down the uproar.

A California law took effect in 2020 that dropped the statute of limitations for filing lawsuits, provided a three-year ...

The law books record it as State of Tennessee v. John T. Scopes. History remembers it as the “ Monkey Trial .” The case ...

The writer was transferred from Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County to San Bruno Jail in San Francisco after being targeted for his journalism exposing the jail's conditions and deaths, and was placed ...