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Ex-GMU law professor Joshua Wright filed a $108M defamation suit against his sexual misconduct accusers. His defense is similar to Johnny Depp's.

Trump has used his four indictments and the mugshot as a rallying cry to his supporters as he remains the favorite in the 2024 GOP presidential race.

There are numerous court cases open against Trump, including a new criminal indictment on RICO charges in Georgia. Here's a list of his legal issues.

Judge Pauline Newman, 96, allegedly used law clerks as personal assistants. Their jobs included doing her grocery shopping and taking her to doctors.

The rush for data to train AI models, LexisNexis' data restrictions, and the rise of legal AI applications.

The FBI agent's bombshell allegations of political bias appeared in a leaked statement made to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Trump used his fingers, but it's still rape, a judge finds — again. But, E. Jean Carroll's $5 million defamation payout remains tied up in appeals.

Already busted for documents he kept at Mar-a-Lago, Trump could soon be in more hot water for the documents that the attorney general says he failed to keep for his NY fraud trial.

Tanya Chutkan, an Obama-appointed judge, is the only federal judge in DC that has sentenced J6 rioters to longer sentences than prosecutors requested.

An indictment is a formal notification to a defendant that a grand jury believes there's reasonable cause to charge them with a crime.

Claims made in the lawsuit, amended multiple times, included that Subway's tuna contained no tuna and that it had traces of other animal DNA.

Rafaela Vasquez, who was behind the wheel of a self-driving Uber that killed a pedestrian in 2018, pleaded guilty to endangerment on Friday.

There are many paths to "no jail" for his criminal cases. But in three months, he'll face a state AG bent on running his business out of New York.

California's Adam Schiff and other Democratic congresspeople are worried the company misclassified employees "to increase profitability and growth."

An ethics expert said the appointment of a Hunter Biden art buyer to a US commission could raise concerns of a "quid pro quo."

The guest list to a 2017 dinner for $10,000-a-year donors with Justice Elena Kagan and Brett Kavanaugh shows how the rich buy access to the Supreme Court.

The Department of Justice said Texas' actions "violate federal law" and "present serious risks to public safety," ABC News reported.

Hot Girl Walk, a viral trend on TikTok turned company, is suing a smaller Florida-based company with a similar name.

Prosecutors say Sam Bankman-Fried is trying to discredit his ex-girlfriend and deter other potential trial witnesses from testifying against him.

"For too long, Amazon has treated children's sensitive data as its own property," Josh Golin, executive director of Fairplay, said in a statement.

Footage shows baton beatdowns, kettling, pepper-spraying of non-violent protesters. "No amount of money will be enough," an injured protester says.

New research reveals that Silicon Valley uses predatory pricing to crush competitors and scam investors — evidence the government can use to bust up tech monopolies.

Rebecca Cleary, staff attorney for Decriminalize Sex Work, told Insider FOSTA's passing has led to increased reports of assault on sex workers.

The June lawsuit said Broadcom and BMW made an exclusive chip deal, which stifled chip competition in the automotive industry.

The Justice Department now says Trump wasn't acting in a presidential capacity when he denied raping Carroll, paving the way for a second trial.

Theranos' Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to 11.25 years in a women's prison in Bryan, Texas, but BOP records show her term has been shortened 2 years.

Justice Clarence Thomas's acceptance of lavish gifts from wealthy friends — many undisclosed — stretches back decades, per a New York Times report.

Many of Thomas' supporters, who had long admired his legal career, sought to finance a film that would explore his life story from his perspective.

The Horatio Alger Association counts amongst its membership an array of highly influential and wealthy individuals.

Comedian Sarah Silverman is one of three people suing OpenAI, the company behind AI chatbot ChatGPT for copyright infringement.

Two authors sued OpenAI, accusing the company of violating copyright law. They say OpenAI used their work to train ChatGPT without their consent.

Charlotte Bamber admitted to wire fraud and commodity price manipulation while trading oil products for Trafigura Group.

The parent company for Shein, in its ongoing battle against rival fashion company Temu, is suing Twitter to find out if Temu is behind the fake accounts.

The settlement came after a near 50-year legal battle. Now the ACLU hopes it will set a nationwide precedent for prison reform.

While the defendant argued that the thumbs-up just signified that he'd received the contract, the judge disagreed with that interpretation.

DirecTV is expected to pay out roughly $460 to each impacted person after an Ohio-based dealer called people on the Do Not Call Registry.

Judge Terry A. Doughty wrote that the GOP attorneys general "have produced evidence of a massive effort ... to suppress speech based on its content."

The NAACP of Florida had accused the state of violating the US Constitution by imposing new limits on efforts to register voters.

"We'll continue to move forward as a colorblind society, which is really, the aspiration I believe of every American," Mike Pence said on CBS.

Appearing on CNN, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez argued that the court's conservative justices are "acting as though they are Congress."

Now dominated by right-wing appointees — including three appointed by Donald Trump — the court was widely expected to end affirmative action.

The antitrust suit is likely to focus on allegations that Amazon punishes sellers who don't use its warehousing and shipping services, per Bloomberg.

Jeffrey Epstein funded US Virgin Islands politicians, like Rep. Stacey Plaskett, who represented the territory he used as a playground for pedophilia.

Clarence Thomas said the Supreme Court shouldn't have taken up the case on the fringe "independent state legislature" election theory to begin with.

In the lease, Martha Ann Bomgardner Alito would earn 3/16ths of the money generated from inherited land if it were to produce any fossil fuels.

Amul Thapar, a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, delved into Thomas' judicial views in a new book entitled "The People's Justice."

McCarthy said that the 2019 impeachment was "was not based on true facts" while adding that the 2021 vote was taken "on the basis of no due process."