Courts & Law

If the courts now say it’s legal to operate a drug house, black folks need to file a class-action lawsuit to get back what we lost when it was us.

Jurors are still deliberating on two more serious charges: hate-crime assault and using excessive force.

The group’s Pennsylvania chapter is suing the county in hopes it will allow people on probation to use medical cannabis.

Willie Veasy's long-running appeal came to an end Wednesday morning, when a judge tossed out the murder conviction.

For the first time, N.J.’s high court is hearing a challenge to the scientific merits of the methodology cops use to spot and charge drivers under the influence of drugs.

A federal appeals court has granted President Trump a temporary stay of decision, and he will not have to turn over his tax returns to the Manhattan district attorney.

A Philadelphia judge has agreed to drop the third-degree murder charge against a 22-year-old bike courier accused of fatally stabbing a real estate developer last summer.

The Supreme Court may be eager to portray itself as an apolitical institution. But this term, political questions writ large are knocking at the high court door.

District Attorney Larry Krasner on Friday filed a motion to drop murder charges against the black bicycle courier accused of fatally stabbing a Center City developer.

Dion Wilson is a frequent government critic at City Council meetings. Police say he went too far and the council president feared ‘for her safety.’

The wife of a slain Philadelphia police officer wants the district attorney removed from a possible retrial of her husband's killer, Mumia Abu Jamal.

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to plunge into the abortion debate in the midst of the 2020 presidential campaign.

The lawsuit alleges Darius Sarro was raped and bullied by other inmates on multiple occasions over a two-year period, while housed at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center.

DA Krasner’s new online dashboard updates daily, from arrests to sentences.

Atlantic City Mayor Frank Gilliam Jr. is the latest controversy in a line of corrupt city officials so long that it spawned a hit HBO TV series.