New Jersey cannot stop the federal government from striking deals with private companies to maintain immigration detention centers in the state, a federal appeals court ruled. The post 'A big step down a slippery slope': Appeals court calls out state law for targeting 'core federal function' of immigration detention first appeared on Law & Crime.

In the landscape of California civil litigation, few procedural devices carry the weight, complexity, and consequence of a motion for summary

Attorney General Matthew Platkin won a major legal victory Wednesday when the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that his office had the legal right to take control of the Paterson Police Department in 2023.

Michigan’s appellate court reversed course in its initial determination that the state’s prohibition on making threats or false threats of terrorism was unconstitutional, ruling Monday that the law passed muster.

Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan addressed reporters in Abuja after security personnel denied her entry into the National Assembly Complex.

In a notable affirmation of disability rights in the workplace, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a previous judgment favoring the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against Werner Trucking.

A Luzerne County judge's sentence for a former gymnastics coach who admitted to possessing and sharing images of child sexual abuse materials will stand. A three-member panel of the Pennsylvania Superior Court on Tuesday rejected the appeal filed by Andrew Neafie,

After winning a reprieve from a lifetime in prison due to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that banned mandatory life sentences for juvenile killers, convicted murderer Todd Hyung-Rae Tarselli

The state Supreme Court ruled an attorney was not obligated to investigate her client's immigration status after he repeatedly misrepresented it.

A man acquitted as insane in a 1997 Derby bank robbery can no longer be kept under state Psychiatric Security Review Board jurisdiction because prosecutors have failed to prove that he represents the “imminent” danger the law requires for continued commitment,

The news outlet wanted the court to overturn a three-judge panel's June 6 ruling not to let AP back into the events until merits of the news organization's lawsuit against Trump was decided. But the court on Tuesday declined to hear that appeal.