Courts & Law

Indicted by the feds alongside union chief John Dougherty, the three-term lawmaker is heading for a January trial.

The court case is over the Trump campaign's federal lawsuit seeking to prevent Pennsylvania officials from certifying the vote results.

The rule would have harmed the bargaining rights of more than 500,000 home healthcare workers in California and several hundred thousand additional workers across the nation.

The Trump campaign has filed numerous lawsuits aiming to stop Pa. from certifying its votes. WHYY reporter Ryan Briggs explains the suits and where they are going.

Cortes will succeed Marcel Pratt in overseeing the city's 330-employee law department. She currently chairs its litigation group.

DA Larry Krasner’s decision regarding veteran prosecutor Anthony Voci reportedly came down Monday.

Two weeks after Election Day, President Donald Trump’s campaign is still engaged in bitter litigation over several lawsuits contesting Pennsylvania’s results.

Hate crimes rose to their highest numbers in a decade, with a record-breaking 51 fatal attacks, according to an FBI count released Monday.

The question of whether the Philadelphia nonprofit can open a supervised injection site comes down to language in the U.S. Controlled Substances Act.

A refresher on the twists and turns of the case against the Philadelphia nonprofit, Safehouse, as it moves to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.

About 650,000 people are part of DACA, which allows young immigrants who were brought to the country as children to legally work and shields them from deportation.

All that was left was to set up the marketplace for recreational marijuana. Many say they were dismayed by lawmakers’ first try at enabling legislation.

Police say a Jane Doe was found in a laundry bag discarded on a Tacony curb Friday morning

These kinds of cases are likely under-counted, however, thanks to a fraught relationship with police.

Who will sit on it, how they will be selected, what its budget will be, its duties and powers — all of that will be finalized in the coming weeks.