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

Without discussion the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved a $14 million settlement of a lawsuit filed ...

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 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 ...

Sidney Holmes, a resident of Broward County, Florida, has been awarded $1.7 million by the state after spending over three ...

Jose Padilla is the name of a convicted al-Qaida terrorism plotter who was ... where protests have calmed down in recent days. Read more on the California National Guard case Judge Michael Farbiarz ...

A report says at least 13 people were thought to have taken their own lives as a result of Britain’s Post Office scandal ...