Articles Posted in Criminal Law

The civil lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, has been tossed by a federal judge in Washington.

Quotes from a Fox & Friends interview of President Trump today were included, just hours later, into a letter from the U.S. Attorneys Office of the Southern District of New York regarding the review of materials seized by the government from the President's lawyer, Michael Cohen. Read the letter and other filings in the case.

A federal district court judge in Massachusetts ruled that the Second Amendment does not prevent Massachusetts from banning assault rifles.

The Raleigh, North Carolina police department issued "reverse warrants" to Google for the purpose of collecting cellular location data of people near a crime scene. WRAL, a Raleigh television station and NBC affiliate, reported that the Raleigh police department issued four "reverse warrants" in 2017, seeking information not tied to a specific suspect but from any people with Google accounts, including users of Android operating systems and location-enabled Google apps, at or near the scene of a crime.

Craigslist closed down its personals section on Friday after Congress passed the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act “FOSTA” last week.

Bitcoin trader Morgan Rockoons will stand trial in San Diego after being indicted for failure to comply with federal anti-money laundering rules. His case highlights questions that authorities have wrestled with since the emergence of cryptocurrencies, namely whether they are subject to the same banking rules as government-recognized currency.