In court filings and dismissal letters, the Justice Department’s political leadership claims sweeping authority to fire ...

On the one hand, restitution is imposed by a court as part of sentencing and adds to a defendant’s post-conviction obligations, which certainly sounds punitive. But the primary purpose of ...

While a mistrial was declared in the criminal trial, a civil lawsuit filed by the Lyoya family is still pending against Schurr. So what's the difference?

BRANCH COUNTY — Civil and criminal liability questions remain after the prosecutor and courts dismissed over four dozen tickets, three felonies, and 14 misdemeanors because former Branch County ...

Our White Collar, Government & Internal Investigations and Labor & Employment Groups examine how the Department of Justice (DOJ) could use civil and ...

A seemingly never-ending nightmare may soon come to a close for one Charleston-area family that says squatters moved into their dead loved one’s home.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation searched a house in South Carolina as a part of an "ongoing criminal civil rights investigation involving allegations of racial discrimination" on Wednesday ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court today ruled that former President Trump is at least presumptively immune from criminal liability for his official acts, and is absolutely immune for some “core” of them ...

In the federal civil action, the plaintiffs sought access to arrest and incident reports, search warrants, affidavits, forensic reports, witness statements, and other documents in the files of the ...

The conclusion of a criminal case against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer clears the way for a related civil lawsuit by relatives of the deceased woman and efforts to depose… ...

A ruling that Donald Trump has immunity in a civil case is not the same as him having "absolute immunity" from prosecution.

The ruling, though likely to be appealed, marks another defeat for Trump in a civil case. And those losses are powerful predictors of what’s likely coming once his criminal trials commence.