Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced Monday that he does not support the resentencing of Lyle and Erik Menendez, arguing that the brothers have repeatedly lied about their motivations for the 1989 murders of their parents. The Menendez brothers, who were convicted in 1996 and sentenced to life... Read More »
Global music mogul and husband of Beyoncé, Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, filed a defamation lawsuit against a woman who claims he raped her when she was just 13 years old. Jay-Z, claims the woman, who initially sued him for rape but has since dropped her suit, is... Read More »
Democrats in the U.S. Senate recently blocked a Republican-written bill aimed at barring transgender women and girls from school sports teams designated for female students. The party-line vote of 51 to 45 thwarted considerations in the Senate of the G.O.P.’s latest move to use transgender people as a ‘hot button’... Read More »
The Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, Reagan Fondren, announced the arrest of Tennessee gynecologist Sanjeev Kumar, who was charged with numerous offenses. Dr. Kumar, 44, was charged with enticing and inducing four victims to travel interstate to engage in illegal sexual activity, adulteration of medical... Read More »
Christina Fulton, 57, who dated actor Nicolas Cage from 1988 to 1991, filed a lawsuit against him and their son Weston Cage, 34, alleging she was severely assaulted by her son. Ms. Fulton also sued Nicolas Cage for “enabling” the alleged violent attack. The lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles... Read More »
Greenpeace, a “global network of independent campaigning organizations” that protests environmental destruction, is being sued by Energy Transfer, a Dallas-based oil and gas company that claims the nonprofit group harmed its business with protests a decade ago. The suit was filed in North Dakota state court. Greenpeace International and the... Read More »
The United States Supreme Court rejected a suit last Friday from Holocaust survivors who requested compensation from Hungary for the theft of their assets by Nazis during WWII. The High Court voted unanimously to turn away the Holocaust survivors’ claim, which sought reparations for their looted property during WWII by... Read More »
President Donald Trump unveiled his new Gold Card during a press conference in the Oval Office earlier this week, and while questions remain about what this new pathway to citizenship means for foreign-born immigrants, it’s not as novel an idea as it may sound. Trump announced in the Oval Office... Read More »
Ashley St. Clair, author and mother of one of Elon Musk’s 13 children, filed a lawsuit against him seeking sole custody of their son. St. Clair, 26, recently filed her custody petition in Manhattan with the New York Supreme Court for New York County, where the plaintiff and her child... Read More »
The Idaho Legislature passed a resolution urging the United States Supreme Court to reverse its 2015 ruling that gave same-sex couples the legal right to marry in all states. Although every Idaho House Democrat and 15 House Republicans opposed the anti-gay marriage House Joint Memorial 1, it still easily passed... Read More »
