Courts & Law

Brennan said she would use $400,000 of the settlement to pay legal fees and would donate the rest to The Waterfront Project.

Inmates in prisons and jails remain on lockdown. And without proper testing, public health experts say that can’t end anytime soon.

Families in U.S. immigration custody were presented with an either/or this week: agree to be detained indefinitely, or let your child leave without you.

A judge has reinstated all charges brought against an Amtrak engineer for his role in a high-speed derailment in Philadelphia that killed eight people.

Advocates have widely praised the department’s efforts, but are concerned about potential harms to inmate mental health.

More than 40 people in state custody have died of COVID-19, which is the highest in the nation as a share of prison population.

We discuss the cases before the Supreme Court this session, and AG Bill Barr's attempts to absolve former National Security Advisor Flynn.

Fifteen states, including Delaware, don’t offer compensation for exonerees. One legislator wants to change that.

Rulings against the president could lead to the campaign season release of personal financial information that Trump has kept shielded from investigators and the public.

With fewer people being held for pre-trial detention, there’s been a 10% drop in Delaware’s overall prison population.

The charges came more than two months after Ahmaud Arbery was killed on a residential Georgia street. Outrage over the case swelled after video of the shooting was released.

The charges came more than two months after Ahmaud Arbery, 25, was killed on a residential street just outside the port city of Brunswick.

The move is a stunning reversal for one of the signature cases brought by special counsel Robert Mueller.

Two allies of former Gov. Chris Christie had been convicted, but the court said those verdicts were based on a faulty interpretation of the law.

The 87-year-old justice underwent non-surgical treatment for what the court described as acute cholecystitis, a benign gallbladder condition, at Johns Hopkins Hospital.