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In a significant legal victory, rapper T.I. (Clifford Harris) and his wife, singer-songwriter Tameka “Tiny” Harris, have been awarded $71 million by a jury in their lawsuit against MGA Entertainment. The couple claimed that the toy giant infringed upon the intellectual property rights of their former teen pop group, the OMG Girlz, through its popular…
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Federal prosecutors announced on Monday that they intend to charge Ryan Routh, the man accused of hiding with a gun near former President Donald Trump’s Florida golf course, with attempting to assassinate a major political candidate. The 58-year-old suspect has been ordered to remain in jail without bond while awaiting trial on two gun-related charges.…
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In a notable departure from recent trends, five death row inmates across the United States are scheduled to be executed within a single week, marking the highest number of executions in this time frame in over two decades. This unusual spike comes amid a broader decline in both the application and public support for the…
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California and several environmental groups sued Exxon Mobil on Monday, accusing the oil giant of running a decades-long campaign that fueled global plastic waste pollution. During Climate Week in New York City, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the lawsuit after completing a nearly two-year investigation, which he said revealed Exxon deliberately misled the public…
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Ahmad Alissa, the gunman who killed ten people during a mass shooting at a Colorado supermarket in 2021, was sentenced to life in prison on Monday after a jury rejected his insanity defense. Despite his attorneys’ claims that Alissa was unable to distinguish right from wrong due to his schizophrenia, the jury found him guilty…
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A Houston bankruptcy judge accused U.S. law firm Jackson Walker of breaching its ethical duties by failing to disclose earlier the relationship between David Jones, a former Houston bankruptcy judge, and one of its partners. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Marvin Isgur referred the entire Jackson Walker firm for disciplinary proceedings in a letter sent Friday to…
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Authorities have arrested an Alaska man, Panos Anastasiou, 76, on charges that he threatened to assault, kidnap, and murder six U.S. Supreme Court justices and some of their family members. Prosecutors allege that Anastasiou sent over 465 threatening messages through the Supreme Court’s website, starting in March 2023, with the threats escalating in violence by…
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In a significant shift for the state’s election process, the Georgia State Election Board has approved a new rule requiring all paper ballots to be counted by hand in the upcoming November election. The rule mandates that three sworn poll officers independently count each box of ballots to ensure accuracy. Any discrepancies between the hand…
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The percentage of students of color in Harvard Law School’s new class dropped to 43% from 51% in 2023, according to data posted on the school’s website. This marks the first class admitted after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling that barred colleges and universities from considering race in admissions. The court’s decision came in…
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched a sweeping federal investigation into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department (RCSD) in Mississippi, following serious allegations of civil rights violations. The probe comes just months after six deputies from the department were sentenced to lengthy prison terms for torturing and sexually assaulting two Black men while on…
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