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The suit had accused the three women of wrongful death. It was part of a heated battle over the use of such pills in states with abortion bans. A Texas […]

Byline: Caroline Kitchener A Texas man who sued three women for allegedly helping his ex-wife obtain abortion pills has dropped his claims - prompting abortion rights advocates to declare victory [...]

An oversight board had recommended that Jeffrey Maddrey, the chief of department, be punished for interfering with an arrest. Commissioner Edward Caban dismissed the case. Commissioner Edward Caban of the [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]ASSOCIATED PRESS A Philippine appeals court reversed a regulator's 2018 order to shut down a prominent news outlet in a decision made public Friday, marking a legal victory for [...]

The office of the Queens district attorney, Melinda Katz, had reviewed the cases after the detective, James Donovan, pleaded guilty to perjury last year. A New York court set aside [...]

Judge Aileen Cannon's decision to throw out serious national-security criminal charges in the classified documents case against Donald Trump is legally unsupported, ignores decades of precedent and is deeply dangerous. […]

Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that the entire case should be thrown out because the appointment of the special counsel who brought the case, Jack Smith, had violated the Constitution. Mr. [...]

Judge Aileen Cannon's rulings in the documents case had fueled questions about favoritism and legal acumen even before she threw out the charges that Donald Trump had mishandled classified documents. [...]

Byline: Devlin Barrett, Perry Stein The federal judge overseeing the classified documents charges against former president Donald Trump has dismissed the indictment on the grounds that special counsel Jack Smith [...]

Byline: Devlin Barrett, Perry Stein The federal judge overseeing the classified documents charges against former president Donald Trump has dismissed the indictment on the grounds that special counsel Jack Smith [...]

Byline: Philip Bump There is no question that Donald Trump took documents marked classified with him when he left the White House in January 2021. Trump argued that he did [...]

Byline: Keith L. Alexander --- Correction: A quote in a previous version of this article was incorrectly attributed to Merrie Leininger of Georgetown Law. It was Georgetown Law professor Erica [...]

Byline: Samantha Chery, María Luisa Paúl Alec Baldwin's âRustâ shooting trial was dismissed Friday, after a judge ruled that prosecutors improperly withheld potential evidence from the defense team. The ruling [...]

Byline: Kim Bellware, Adela Suliman A Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial Monday in Karen Read's murder trial after a jury deadlocked with no decision despite more than 26 hours of [...]

Byline: Nicole Markus, Patrick Marley A Nevada judge on Friday dismissed the case against six Republicans who submitted certificates falsely declaring Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 election. Clark [...]

Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Where the court previously denied defendant's motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction, a motion for reconsideration is denied. Background 'Plaintiff is the administrator for the [...]

Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Where a man sued the Henrico County Police Division, but it is not an entity that is capable of being sued, it was dismissed from the [...]

Byline: Michigan Lawyers Weekly Staff Where a trial court granted in part and denied in part a plaintiff's motion for entry of final judgment in a suit over a stock [...]

Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Where a man sued the Lynchburg Police Department after it allegedly blocked him on Facebook and Instagram, but the police department is not an entity subject [...]

Byline: Justin Jouvenal Virginia's attorney general has moved to drop the last remaining charge against Prince William County's former top election official who had been accused of corruption, lying and [...]

Byline: Cindy Boren Former Buffalo Bills and San Diego State punter Matt Araiza will be dropped from a lawsuit filed by a woman who alleged she was raped by him [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes and Ann E. Marimow The Supreme Court dismissed as moot Tuesday a case about whether disability rights activists have legal grounds to sue hotels they have no [...]

Byline: Justin Vellucci Jul. 13A Pittsburgh police officer and an animal rights activist say they are disturbed by a district judge's decision to throw out animal cruelty charges against a [...]

Byline: Salvador Rizzo The Virginia prosecutor who filed second-degree murder charges against 10 sheriff's deputies and hospital workers in the March death of Irvo Otieno at a state mental health [...]

Byline: Rick Maese The PGA Tour and its Saudi rival turned partner filed to dismiss their lawsuits in federal court Friday, formally ending the costly legal battle that divided the [...]

Byline: Brian C. Rittmeyer Jun. 8An Arnold police officer has been cleared of all charges related to an allegation that he unlawfully killed an antlered deer. Brackenridge District Judge Carolyn [...]

Byline: Herb Scribner Donald Trump's lawsuit against the New York Times was tossed out by a New York Supreme Court judge on Wednesday, with the former president being ordered to [...]

The animated show severed ties with Justin Roiland, one of its co-creators, in January after reports that he faced charges of domestic abuse. Prosecutors in California dismissed domestic abuse charges [...]

Byline: María Luisa Paúl Despite 'credible allegations' of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's involvement in the 2018 killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a U.S. federal judge on Tuesday ordered [...]

The convictions were connected to eight officers who ''abused their positions of power,'' the Manhattan district attorney said, and came amid hundreds of other dismissals sought by city prosecutors. The [...]

Byline: Michael DiVittorio Nov. 10Charges against a teen accused of being involved in a shooting in Kennywood Park in September were dismissed at a preliminary hearing Wednesday afternoon. Darryl Pirl, [...]

The 378 cases -- mostly low-level drug and traffic offenses -- relied on the work of 13 police officers who were later convicted of crimes. Brooklyn prosecutors are seeking to [...]

Byline: Sonia Rao A judge on Wednesday rejected Amber Heard's request for the high-profile defamation case involving her and her ex-husband, Johnny Depp, to be declared a mistrial. Heard lost [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK -- NEW YORK A federal judge on Friday dismissed Donald Trump's lawsuit against New York Attorney-General Letitia James, rejecting the former president's claim that she [...]

Byline: Tresa Baldas and Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, USA TODAY NETWORK DETROIT - The historic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer kidnap plot trial ended with no convictions Friday, delivering a [...]

Byline: Matt Zapotosky The lawyer charged by Special Counsel John Durham with lying to the FBI when he passed along information about then-candidate Donald Trump has asked a judge to [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison and Elahe Izadi NEW YORK - A judge on Monday said he will dismiss Sarah Palin's libel case against the New York Times, saying she had not [...]

Robert Thomas and Cheron Selton were charged in Allegheny County for killing five people. After four years of pretrial detention, one had charges dismissed and the other was acquitted at [...]

Byline: Hannah Natanson and Justin Jouvenal The Virginia Supreme Court has dismissed a parent lawsuit challenging Gov. Glenn Youngkin's controversial mask-optional executive order - but the dismissal was on highly [...]

Byline: Ellen Nakashima A federal court in Boston on Thursday dismissed charges against a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor accused of failing to disclose research ties to China, after the [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ, Staff Lead Nine months after serving the CBC with a notice of libel, counsel to filmmaker Michelle Latimer have dropped her defamation lawsuit against the network. As [...]

Byline: Ann E. Marimow WASHINGTON - The chief judge of the federal appeals court in Washington on Tuesday dismissed a misconduct complaint against U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan seeking his [...]

Byline: Hannah Knowles The judge overseeing the murder trial in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery rejected defense lawyers' requests for a mistrial Monday and denounced as 'reprehensible' one attorney's comments [...]