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A Tennessee federal judge has ruled that a receiver will be appointed over Uncle Nearest, Inc., the whiskey brand founded by Fawn and Keith Weaver, following a motion by creditor Farm Credit Mid-America. The decision comes despite strong objections from the company and its leadership, marking a significant development in an ongoing financial dispute. Both…
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Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has scored a major legal victory after a judge dismissed the bulk of a lawsuit filed against him by Sara Rivers, a former member of the MTV reality show group Da Band. According to TMZ, the court threw out all 22 counts that Rivers filed against Combs, Bad Boy Records,…
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Attorney Stephanie R. Lindsey, Esq., recently highlighted the dangers of over-reliance on technology in criminal investigations after successfully defending a young man wrongly accused in another state due to a flawed facial recognition match. The case began when the client was detained during a traffic stop and informed of an outstanding warrant in another jurisdiction.…
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A federal judge on Friday rejected the Trump administration’s latest attempt to terminate the Flores Settlement Agreement (FSA), a landmark policy that has safeguarded the rights of immigrant children in U.S. custody for nearly three decades. U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee, who presides over the Central District of California, issued the ruling a week after…
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From a $10 Check to a Law Degree: How Calvin Duncan Turned a Wrongful Conviction Into a Legal Legacy
When Calvin Duncan walked out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary in 2011 after nearly three decades behind bars for a crime he did not commit, the state handed him a $10 release check. That was all. No reparations. No apology beyond a judge’s words. But for Duncan, now 62, freedom was only the beginning of…
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The Trump administration is preparing to expand the scope of what constitutes “good moral character” in U.S. naturalization applications, a move that could make it harder for legal immigrants to secure American citizenship. Under longstanding immigration law, applicants for naturalization must demonstrate good moral character during the required residency period—typically three to five years depending…
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New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against Early Warning Services, LLC (EWS), the company behind Zelle, alleging that the platform was designed without sufficient safeguards to protect consumers from widespread fraud. The lawsuit, filed on August 13, 2025, claims that Zelle users collectively lost more than $1 billion between 2017 and…
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Recording artist Sean Kingston, born Kisean Anderson, has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison by a Florida court after being convicted in a $1 million wire fraud scheme that spanned nearly a year and targeted luxury item sellers. The sentencing comes months after Kingston, 35, was found guilty in March alongside…
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A 3-year-old Indianapolis girl is in critical condition after prosecutors say her father and his girlfriend subjected her to repeated abuse, leaving her with a brain bleed and catastrophic injuries. According to court records, police were called to a home on August 7 after reports that the child had “fallen” and was unresponsive. Officers found…
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In a move that has drawn sharp criticism from civil rights advocates, the U.S. Department of Justice under President Donald Trump quietly ended federal oversight of two landmark school desegregation cases that had been in place for more than half a century. The cases, originating in Hendry County, Florida, and Copiah County, Mississippi, were initiated…
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