A Mesa, Arizona, man pled guilty to running an illegal adoption ring that involved three states and two countries. Paul Petersen is a former Maricopa County Assessor who was charged with running an illegal adoption ring through his Mesa law office. Investigators looking into Petersen's criminal activity alleged that along... Read More »
Last Wednesday, a New York City man pleaded not guilty in a U.S. District Court on federal charges brought against him for threatening Biden supporters during the U.S. Presidential election. The indictment also lists the charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Brian Maiorana is... Read More »
California Governor Gavin Newsom lost ground in a new US Supreme Court ruling yesterday that sided with a church that had defied the governor’s temporary order to restrict religious services. The justices tossed out the order from the federal trial court in the Central District of California, which had previously... Read More »
Chemistry student Yukai Yang, 24, of China, has pled guilty to attempted first-degree murder and other related charges against his roommate, Juwan Royal. Juwan Royal, a black student who roomed with Yang at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA, was the victim of repeated poisoning with the heavy metal thallium. The... Read More »
It won’t be a happy New Year for millions of Americans if the government’s moratorium on housing evictions expires on New Year’s Eve -- a night when people traditionally celebrate without worrying that their families may soon become homeless and freeze. With this in mind, Patricia Lee Refo, President of... Read More »
A federal grand jury has indicted the captain of a dive boat that caught fire and sank off the coast of California last September. The 67-year-old captain, Jerry Nehl Boylan, was indicted on 34 counts of negligent seaman’s manslaughter. The incident took place during the early hours of September 2nd,... Read More »
The Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery in the 11 states of the Confederacy and those areas not under Union control at the time of its signing. The 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution was intended to abolish slavery in the rest of the nation. However, some problematic language remained which... Read More »
On the positive side, the candy companies in question do not claim to condone child slave trafficking. In fact, according to court filings, Nestle USA “firmly believes that traffickers deserve punishment.” But, they stressed, “This case is not about any of that.” Indeed, Nestle & Cargill v. Doe, heard in... Read More »
Justin Ash, a 37-year-old resident of Murrieta, California, was sentenced to prison for the illegal sale and distribution of drugs. During his plea that took place in January of 2020, Ash divulged his operation in obtaining illegal drugs in bulk from overseas manufacturers for the purpose of selling them online... Read More »
String of Charges Involves Numerous Actors in Complex Case It’s a complex story of numerous alleged illegal actions involving President Trump’s attorney; illegal donations to a pro-Trump super PAC; Ukraine and Belarus-born defendants and a Florida golf pro; millions of scammed investors… and it’s not a movie. Lev Parnas, a... Read More »
A Fort Worth, Texas woman is seeking to get her conviction of illegal voting charges overturned by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Crystal Mason, a Black woman from Fort Worth, Texas, cast a provisional ballot in the 2016 presidential election. Mason says she cast her provisional ballot on the... Read More »
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently affirmed a 2019 lower court decision that continued to grant undocumented immigrants the right to obtain a standard driver’s license in New York. The plaintiff, Michael Kearns, sued the state by arguing that he had the "impossible task of choosing... Read More »
The Kentucky governor ordered schools in his state to close due to the explosion of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the US. Some Kentucky schools remain open even while the virus rages, ignoring the orders and fighting them in the Supreme Court. In a series of press briefings, Democratic Governor Andy... Read More »
On November 30, a Transportation Security Administration employee filed a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. federal government. The lawsuit alleges that the government has deprived TSA workers of required hazard pay and environmental discharge pay for work done at airports during the pandemic. The TSA employee who filed the lawsuit... Read More »
On November 13, 2020, U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia blocked drilling on more than 300,000 acres in Wyoming for the second time in two years. In his decision, the judge took the Trump administration to task for failing to properly... Read More »