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More than 700 partners from top U.S. law firms have joined forces in a legal brief supporting Susman Godfrey LLP in its constitutional challenge against the Trump administration. The unprecedented show of solidarity, submitted Friday by the group Law Firm Partners United (LFPU), argues that a recent executive order targeting Susman Godfrey violates multiple constitutional…
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The parents of a 10-year-old Florida boy who died by suicide last year have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against their son’s school, alleging he was subjected to relentless bullying and humiliation by his fifth-grade teacher in the months leading up to his death. According to the lawsuit filed on April 21, 2025, Louis Johnson…
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Grammy Award-winning artist Mary J. Blige has been named as the lead defendant in a $5 million lawsuit filed in New York by celebrity stylist and entrepreneur Misa Hylton and rapper Vado, alleging breach of contract, tortious interference with a business relationship, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The suit, filed in a New York…
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New York Attorney General Letitia James is facing renewed legal scrutiny after a conservative legal watchdog filed an ethics complaint with the New York State Unified Court System. The complaint follows a criminal referral to the U.S. Department of Justice alleging that James committed mortgage fraud related to property holdings in Brooklyn, New York, and…
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In 1918, A Young Pregnant Woman Was Lynched By A White Mob For Demanding Justice – This Is Her Story
The brutal 1918 lynching of Mary Turner, a young Black woman in Lowndes County, Georgia, stands as one of the most egregious failures of the American legal system to protect its citizens or enforce justice. More than a century later, her murder remains a powerful symbol of how state and local authorities allowed racial violence…
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A Pueblo County inmate with a prior history of escape managed to briefly flee from custody on Monday while serving as a kitchen trustee, just two days shy of completing his sentence. According to the Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office, Lucas Brown, an inmate originally serving 90 days for criminal mischief, escaped from the Pueblo County…
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A Massachusetts woman is speaking out after a dramatic encounter with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents ended with her and her husband being forcibly removed from their car — despite their attorney advising them to wait for legal counsel. Last Monday, Marilu Mendez and her husband, Juan Mendez, were driving along Tallman Street…
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In one of the most damning pharmaceutical scandals to come to light, newly surfaced documents reveal that Cutter Biological, a division of Bayer, knowingly sold HIV-contaminated blood-clotting medicine to Asia and Latin America during the 1980s — even after introducing a safer, heat-treated product in the United States and Europe. According to internal records obtained…
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What began as flashy Instagram posts flaunting luxury cars, designer brands, and private jets ended in a sobering prison sentence for Nigerian influencer Ramon Abbas—better known to his millions of online followers as “Hushpuppi.” Abbas, 40, was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison in 2022 after pleading guilty to charges of money laundering tied…
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The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is sounding the alarm over a series of new executive orders issued by the Trump administration. The respected organization is calling the new EOs a direct attack on decades of hard-fought civil rights protections. Legal experts from the organization have sharply criticized the measures, which they say…
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