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U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly has ordered a rare hearing to determine whether R&B star R.

R. Kelly wants to shake up his legal defense team two months before he is set to go on trial in New York on federal racketeering charges.His top two attorneys, Steve Greenberg and Michael Leonard, of Chicago, filed a motion this week seeking to withdraw from the long-delayed case, saying it would be “impossible” for them “to properly represent Mr.

football team was sentenced to eight years in prison Tuesday for drug trafficking and for fraudulently capitalizing on his son's illness with a phony charity.Jordy Robertson, 37, was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Wendy Vitter, according to the U.S.

NEW YORK -- A man accusing Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey of sexually abusing him in the 1980s when he was 14 cannot proceed anonymously in court, a judge ruled Monday.U.S. District Judge Lewis A.

lawsuit challenging Connecticut’s policy allowing transgender high school athletes to compete in sports based on their gender identity, which has served as the impetus for dozens of states to consider legislation banning transgender females from competing in women’s sports.In a ruling released on Sunday, U.S.

a sprawling sex crimes investigation.The trial in Brooklyn federal court had been put off because of the pandemic. But at a virtual hearing, U.S.

A federal judge in California has ruled that Kobe Bryant’s widow, Vanessa Bryant, can obtain the names of four Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies who allegedly shared graphic photos from the site of the helicopter crash that killed her husband, their daughter Gianna and seven others.

A federal judge has dismissed a $435 million libel suit that Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) filed against CNN, rejecting his claim over a report related to the first impeachment case against Donald Trump.

The WGA’s long-running legal battle to reshape the talent agency business is now officially over. On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge André Birotte Jr., who oversaw the case, granted a request by the WGA and WME to voluntarily dismiss their antitrust suits, bringing the case to a close with the words, “It is so ordered.”

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorR. Kelly’s New York jury trial has been delayed for a fourth time due to COVID-19 concerns, according to the Chicago Tribune.The singer had been scheduled to go on trial April 7 on racketeering charges — which allege he ran a criminal enterprise designed to recruit women for sexual misconduct — but at a status hearing Tuesday, U.S.

Alice Johnson — who spent 22 years in jail for the non-violent, first-time offense of her role in a large cocaine-dealing ring — in 2018, she began working to secure Young’s freedom. In September 2018, the reality star visited the Oval Office with former U.S.

NEW YORK -- Testimony by Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend about her sexual experiences with consenting adults can remain secret when a transcript is released next week, a judge said Tuesday.The ruling by U.S. District Judge Loretta A.

A federal judge in Oklahoma has ordered the new owners of an Oklahoma zoo featured in Netflix’s "Tiger King" documentary to turn over all the lion and tiger cubs in their possession to the federal government. U.S.

animals' mothers, to the federal government.U.S. District Judge John F.

SAN DIEGO – U. S. District Court Judge Cynthia Ann Bashant issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) Monday, blocking the Trump administration’s latest attempt to prevent asylum seekers from accessing the U.S. asylum process.

President Trump has voluntarily dropped multiple lawsuits seeking to overturn Joe Biden's election victory in Georgia, a move that comes one day after rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol to protest the certification of Biden’s win.  A state filing shows that Trump's campaign team did not object to the voluntary withdrawal and that its claims that it reached a settlement with Georgia were false.  Trump’s withdrawal of the lawsuits came after U.S.

A federal judge has denied WME’s request for a preliminary injunction that would have ended the WGA’s boycott of the agency until the antitrust case can go to trial. It’s a major legal victory for the guild, and should add pressure on WME to settle the long-running dispute and sign the WGA’s franchise agreement, as have all the other major talent agencies.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger accused U.S. District Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner of undermining the rule of law Tuesday after she ordered two county boards of elections to reinstate more than 4,000 people from voter rolls ahead of the Jan.

A Georgia judge who is the sister of Democratic politician Stacey Abrams refused to recuse herself from a crucial election case, instead ruling against the purge of 4,000 voters from state rolls before Senate runoffs.  U.S.

The date of R. Kelly's federal trial in Chicago for child pornography and obstruction charges has been moved due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Associated Press.

lawsuit was filed in early November by a coalition of LGBTQ groups, as well as a business with federal contracts to provide such training to correctional staff and government agencies, who argue that the order, issued by President Trump on Sept. 22, violates their free speech rights and right to due process under the U.S.

R. Kelly‘s federal court trial for child pornography and obstruction charges in Chicago.The singer was initially set to stand trial on April 27, 2021, but due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the date has now been moved to September 13 next year, as The New York Times reports.The report adds that U.S.

A federal judge denied a request Thursday to stop Seattle from clearing the last remains of a homeless encampment that has received pushback from activists.  U.S.

CAA and the WGA settled their long-running legal battle yesterday, but they’re still arguing about how they got there in the final days leading up to the settlement. In court papers filed Thursday, CAA attorney Richard Kendall told U.S. District Court Judge André Birotte Jr. that the account the WGA gave the court about the last three weeks of their negotiations is “somewhat misleading” and “paints an inaccurate picture of what occurred.”

A Georgia man who prosecutors say earlier this year lied to his employer about contracting the coronavirus to obtain paid leave, thus causing the corporation $100,000 in losses to shut down its Atlanta facility and compensate other workers forced to quarantine, pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges Monday. Santwon Antonio Davis, 35, of Atlanta, pleaded guilty before U.S.

Tom Girardi‘s assets amid his split from Erika Jayne, claiming that the famed lawyer owes millions to his clients.Girardi, 81, appeared via phone at a contempt hearing on Monday, December 14, when U.S. District Judge Thomas M.

A federal appeals court indicated it may reinstate charges against Michael Flynn's former business partner while Flynn remains absolved of any liability in the matter. The U.S.

Rapper Lil Wayne pleaded guilty Friday to a federal charge that he possessed a weapon despite being a convicted felon following a 2019 search of a private plane in the Miami area. The rapper, whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter, entered the plea during a hearing held remotely before U.S.

As President Trump's legal team argued before the Wisconsin Supreme Court Saturday to have hundreds of thousands of ballots in two blue counties tossed, the president’s reelection effort had another legal loss in federal district court. U.S.

Lil Wayne has pleaded guilty to gun charges following his arrest last year.

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Cardi B is headed to trial over the use of a man's distinctive back tattoo on the cover of her first mixtape, Gangsta Bitch Music Vol.1, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Kevin Brophy Jr.

filed last year, said that Weinstein obtained the services of Black Clube to obtain a copy of McGowan’s then-unpublished memoir, “Brave,” through deceptive means, in an attempt to prevent McGowan’s rape accusations against Weinstein from being published.But in a decision filed on Monday, U.S. District Judge Otis D.

A federal judge has found the Seattle Police Department in contempt of court for the indiscriminate use of pepper-filled “blast balls” and pepper spray during Black Lives Matter protests in recent months. U.S.

A second federal judge has granted his second preliminary injunction preventing the federal government from effectively shutting TikTok down as the legal saga of the wildly popular video sharing app continues.

Attorney Sidney Powell suffered losses in two states Monday morning, with judges in both Michigan and Georgia ruling against her clients in lawsuits challenging the election results in those states. Both cases alleged widespread voter fraud and errors having to do with absentee ballots and vote counting.