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Apr 10, 2026

Appeals court appears torn over Combs’ bid to overturn sentence

A U.S. appeals court appeared divided on Thursday about a bid by Sean "Diddy" Combs to overturn the hip-hop mogul's prison sentence over prostitution charges in a case that raises novel legal questions about how judges consider conduct for which a defendant has been acquitted in determining a punishment. 

A Caterpillar logo is surrounded by yellow on the side of a tractor in the Building SS assembly facility in East Peoria. (USA TODAY Network)
Apr 8, 2026

Caterpillar, Bobcat sue each other over patent infringement

Caterpillar and Doosan Bobcat are engaged in a series of lawsuits that accuse one another of infringing on patents for various products sold by the two companies.

Colin Gray, 54, the father of Apalachee High School shooter Colt Gray, 14, who is charged as an adult with four counts of murder in the deaths of Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14, Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Cristina Irimie, 53, enters the Barrow County courthouse for his first appearance in Winder, Georgia, on Sept. 6, 2024. (Brynn Anderson/Pool via REUTERS)
Mar 3, 2026

Father of accused Georgia school shooter convicted of second-degree murder

Colin Gray, the father of a boy charged with killing four people at a high school in Georgia in 2024, was found guilty of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter.

Attorney Gloria Worch represented people who were burned in a January 2024 bonfire accident. (Photo courtesy of Schochor, Staton, Goldberg & Cardea)
Feb 26, 2026

Baltimore judge awards $3.25M for injuries from bonfire explosion at Hindu festival

A Baltimore judge awarded a $3.25 million judgment to the victims of a bonfire accident at a Hindu holiday festival two years ago.

The 120-meter-high Bayer Cross, logo of German pharmaceutical and chemical maker Bayer AG, consisting of 1710 LED glass bulbs, is seen next to a red traffic light in Leverkusen, Germany, September 23, 2023. (REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay)
Feb 17, 2026

Bayer proposes $7.25B plan to settle Roundup cancer cases

Bayer said it filed a proposed class settlement totaling as much as $7.25 billion aimed at resolving claims that its Roundup weedkiller caused cancer.

Tom Goldstein, a top U.S. Supreme Court attorney and publisher of the SCOTUS blog news website arrives for jury selection in his trial on charges of tax fraud, at U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Maryland, January 13, 2026. (REUTERS/Leah Millis)
Feb 13, 2026

Lawyer Tom Goldstein admits ‘mistakes’ but denies tax crimes at trial in MD

Former U.S. Supreme Court lawyer Thomas Goldstein told a federal jury weighing criminal tax charges that he did not intentionally violate any laws.

Godlove Djapa, center, poses for a photo with his attorneys after a jury awarded him more than $71 million. His attorneys, from left, are Briggs Bedigian, Lauren Geisser and Jon Stefanuca. (Submitted photo)
Jan 22, 2026

Prince George’s jury awards $71M to man who jumped out of burning apartment

A Prince George’s County jury this month awarded $71 million to a man who broke his spine after jumping out of a window during a fire.

Luigi Mangione appears in good spirits as the suppresion hearing for the murder of UHC CEO Brian Thompson goes into another week, in New York, December 12, 2025. (Curtis Means/Pool via REUTER)
Jan 9, 2026

US judge sets jury selection in Luigi Mangione CEO killing trial for September

A federal judge set September jury selection for Luigi Mangione’s trial in the killing of a UnitedHealth insurance executive in Manhattan.

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is shown in 2017. (U.S. General Services Administration file photo)
Dec 23, 2025

4th Circuit: Social Security; Sixth Amendment; gross negligence

Social Security – Sixth Amendment – gross negligence

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried leaves Federal court July 26, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
Nov 4, 2025

Appeals judges react skeptically to Sam Bankman-Fried’s bid to overturn fraud conviction

Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyer argues his 25-year fraud conviction was unfair, citing limits on evidence and attorney advice in FTX trial.

Vince McMahon attends the Republican state convention in Hartford, Conn., Friday, May 18, 2012. (AP File Photo/Jessica Hill)
Oct 20, 2025

Former WWE boss allowed to enter pretrial program in reckless driving case

Former WWE CEO Vince McMahon has been allowed to enter a pretrial program to resolve a reckless driving charge.

Harvey Weinstein appears in state court in Manhattan after a mistrial on a rape charge, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025 in New York. (Steven Hirsch /New York Post via AP, Pool)
Oct 13, 2025

Two jurors claim they were bullied into convicting Harvey Weinstein and regret it, his lawyers say

Two jurors in Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault trial say they were bullied into convicting him, fueling efforts to overturn his New York conviction.