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A judge has ruled that Prince Harry can take the British government to court over his security arrangements when he visits the U.K.

Former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter was sentenced to two years in prison for first- and second-degree manslaughter in the death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright. Potter says that she mistook her gun for her taser and shot Wright at a traffic stop in April last year.

A federal judge is deciding whether to block the nation’s most restrictive abortion law, which has banned most abortions in Texas since early September and sent women racing hundreds of miles to get care outside the state

A Maryland Eastern Shore judge who was about to be arrested at his home on federal charges of sexual exploitation of a child was found dead Friday, officials said.

A DOJ watchdog says threats to federal judges and prosecutors have skyrocketed even as the U.S. Marshals Service faces budget and staff shortfalls.

NBC 7’s Jacke Crea had a chat with two retired Black judges who had to fight through racism and discrimination on their way to becoming trailblazers in their profession.

A Montana judge blocked three land-use plans that would have opened most U.S.-owned lands in the state to energy development

The U.S. Postal Service must live up to its responsibilities to timely process election mail by treating it as a priority, a New York judge ordered on Monday, adding that the agency’s workers should be permitted to make extra deliveries and work overtime near the November presidential election.

“Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Dina Manzo’s ex-husband and an alleged member of an organized crime family were charged by federal prosecutors Tuesday with conspiring to assault Manzo’s then-boyfriend in an incident in 2015. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey said Thomas Manzo and John Perna faces multiple charges over the assault on her now-husband, David Cantin...

A federal judge has ordered the release of children held with their parents in U.S. immigration jails and denounced the Trump administration’s prolonged detention of families during the coronavirus pandemic

A Georgia judge has scheduled a court hearing next week for three men charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery

The Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled that the murder case against the wife of a University of Connecticut medical school doctor can proceed, despite authorities having reviewed documents covered by attorney-client privilege that were seized from her home.

Since Connecticut’s first in the nation risk warrant law took effect two decades ago, 2,000 firearm removal requests have been filed.  Half of those have come in the last five years. According to Rep. Steven Stafstrom of Bridgeport, a Duke University study showed this legal strategy prevented between 38 to 76 suicides from 1999 to 2013. “For every 10 to…

A federal judge has ruled that Ken Cuccinelli was unlawfully appointed to lead the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency and therefore lacks authority to give asylum seekers less time to prepare for initial screening interviews

The criminal defense attorney for Fotis Dulos has filed a brief in Connecticut Supreme Court detailing why the court should reverse a gag order in the case.

A lawyer cross examined Fotis Dulos on Wednesday in the trial connected to a civil lawsuit filed by the mother of Jennifer Dulos.

The decision as to whether Fotis Dulos will have to pay his mother-in-law millions of dollars she says he owes the family estate has gone to a judge.

Without offering proof, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday said actor Leonardo DiCaprio had funded nonprofit groups that he claimed are partly responsible for fires in the Amazon this year. Bolsonaro’s remarks about the American actor were part of a wider government campaign against environmental nonprofit groups operating in Brazil. DiCaprio’s environmental organization Earth Alliance has pledged $5 million to...

Willie Veasy celebrated this Thanksgiving at home with his family. Until last month Veasy spent decades in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. The NBC10 Investigators have been following his story and we’ve checked in with Veasy to see how he’s doing.

Libraries are built for reading and research, and librarians are trained to help patrons find what they need. But staffers at San Diego city libraries are also coping with threats to their safety and occasional violence, according to court records and interviews. At least 16 city library department employees have asked judges for protection from unruly patrons, according to documents...