Loomer had sought more than $150 million in damages from Maher and HBO over comments he made regarding her relationship with Trump.

A federal judge has thrown out a defamation lawsuit FBI Director Kash Patel brought against an ex-FBI employee. Former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi had said Patel has “been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of” the bureau’s headquarters in Washington,

A federal judge in Texas has tossed a defamation suit brought by FBI director Kash Patel against former MSNBC contributor Frank Figliuzzi.

A Florida inmate smiled and laughed in court as a judge gave him a life sentence for killing his cellmate by stabbing him in the head with a pen.

Defense attorneys said photos of the fireworks explosion victims could make it difficult to choose an impartial jury.

The hearing, which is expected to order Purdue Pharma to forfeit $225 million to the Justice Department, was moved to allow victims of the opioid crisis to attend.

A Santa Clara County judge Monday ordered District Attorney Jeff Rosen’s fundraising records to be turned over to defense attorneys, citing the documents as necessary to determine whether the prosecutor has a conflict of interest that should bar him and his entire office from retrying a felony vandalism case against five pro-Palestinian activists.

U.S. District Judge Alan Albright, who before relocating to Austin, Texas, last year helped transform a tiny courthouse in Waco into a hub for much of the patent litigation in the United States, ​plans to resign,