Courts & Law

Keith Byrne has lived in Pennsylvania for more than a decade and could be deported any minute. He’s one of an estimated 50,000 unauthorized Irish immigrants in the U.S.

A New Jersey judge has ruled that a lifeguard who collided with a woman as he ran to cover a vacated lifeguard stand is protected by state's Good Samaritan Act.

Delaware’s Supreme Court has never had a black, Latino or Asian American member. Some want Gov. Carney to “correct the record’ when filling a looming vacancy.

Protesters gathered at the doorstep of Judge James Troiano, who is facing backlash for comments that a boy accused of rape is from a ‘good family.’

The hearing on the overall closure plan is now scheduled for Friday, July 19.

The Pennsylvania attorney general's office launched an effort Thursday to improve the use of firearms databases, so law enforcement can better track guns used in crimes.

Forty out of nearly 8,000 inmates processed at the county jail in 2018 were found to be undocumented immigrants and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

First we hear from journalist Vicky Ward about covering Jeffrey Epstein for almost two decades. Then, how to fight the scourge of sex trafficking and support it's victims.

A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously overturned the ruling of a federal judge in Maryland who said the lawsuit could move forward.

A federal appeals court in Manhattan says President Trump cannot block critics from his Twitter account, calling it "unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination."

A Lancaster County judge on Monday dismissed trespassing charges against seven protesters who blocked construction of the Atlantic Sunrise natural gas pipeline.

Lawyers for Dougherty and Henon asked a judge Monday to dismiss multiple charges from a 116-count federal indictment against the two.

The fate of the ACA is again on the line, as a federal appeals court in New Orleans takes up a case in which a lower court judge has already ruled the law unconstitutional.

U.S. Attorney William McSwain says Customs and Border Protection officials obtained a warrant Thursday and seized the MSC Gayane.

While other countries have similar decal laws, New Jersey is the only state demanding young drivers identify themselves this way.