Courts & Law

Lawyers for rapper Meek Mill say if granted a new trial, he would not be convicted since prosecutors would not call the officer who testified in the first one.

Philadelphia and the Vera Institute of Justice launched a one-year pilot program offering pro bono legal support to low-income immigrants facing deportation.

Krasner filed a motion arguing the state has used the death penalty arbitrarily, thus violating protections against cruel punishments.

Given Facebook's track record of broken promises, U.S. senators said Tuesday that the social media giant can't be trusted when it comes to plans to launch a digital currency.

Consumer products giant Johnson & Johnson was a "kingpin" company that helped fuel the most devastating public health crisis in Oklahoma history, the AG argued Monday.

After three days of complaining of severe stomach pain, Delaware inmate died without receiving proper medical attention, lawsuit alleges.

In the cities where rumors of mass raids swirled, many immigrants stayed inside their homes, as jitters turned vibrant migrant markets and commercial corridors eerily quiet.

A 30-year-old woman is facing a slew of motor vehicle and criminal charges after a high speed chase Saturday in coastal Ocean County. 

According to reports, ICE is prepared to target about 2,000 recently arrived migrant families.

Ocean County officials are angered by a new attorney general directive limits how their jail staff can help identify undocumented immigrants.

An appeals court decision gave former Philly Congressman Chaka Fattah a shot at less time in prison. In the end, he got the same punishment: 10 years.

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.’