By design, the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) allows defendants to remove complex class actions to federal court. It avoids the onerous diversity requirements that defendants previously struggled to ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—In response to the shutdown of the federal government, the U.S. court system in northern Ohio has put on hold all non-essential civil lawsuits involving federal agencies and officials.

Former Massachusetts state Sen. Dean Tran, who was convicted last year of fraud, pleaded guilty in federal court of trying to ...

Judge Dianne Hensley, who has been fighting the state judicial oversight body since 2019, is hoping to tee up a new challenge ...

A federal judge dismissed the city’s lawsuit against the California Values Act, which limits the use of state and local resources to assist federal immigration enforcement.

Learn how a Court Order Acceptable for Processing (COAP) divides federal benefits, including retirement and survivor annuities, for ex-spouses or dependents of U.S. federal employees.

A federal judge must now determine whether President Trump’s immunity for official acts means that his Manhattan criminal case belongs in federal court. By Jonah E. Bromwich A New York appeals court ...

The State Library of Ohio got some good news as a federal agency from which they receive grant money won a battle in federal court against an executive order from President Donald Trump. Last month, ...

Delaware's top federal prosecutor resigned Friday morning and the courts appointed a successor, capping months of controversy ...

A federal appeals court in New York on Thursday said that President Donald Trump should be allowed to make a case for why federal courts should review his hush money conviction for possible conflicts ...

The stay ruling at least temporarily allowed enforcement of the law — though it did not resolve the underlying issues in the ...