More than half the people ICE has detained under President Trump have no criminal conviction, while roughly 8% were convicted ...

On April 7, 2025, the Supreme Court granted cert in Ellingburg v. United States to resolve a circuit split as to whether restitution is a criminal punishment and therefore subject to the ...

But civil cases typically involve disputes between parties regarding the legal duties and responsibilities they owe to one another. In general, family law disputes and property disputes are civil ...

The suits — filed by both men and women — allege all kinds of sexual impropriety, from harassment to assault to rape to ...

In Nigeria, the court is congested with civil cases filed under criminal acts. The Nigerian legal system addresses the wrongdoings that people commit with two different types of cases: civil and ...

The Trump administration plans to expand the civil denaturalization process for naturalized citizens, raising concerns over ...

Land of Lincoln Legal Aid provides free legal aid to qualifying residents in Central and Southern Illinois for certain civil ...

Almost every state allows police to take cash and property it believes was illicitly obtained, but regulations vary widely.

The high court’s review lets a subset of defendants take advantage of criminal justice reform spurred on by defunct ...

Buffalo Bills First-Round Pick Cornerback Maxwell Hariston has been named in a civil lawsuit in Kentucky, over an alleged ...

"In a civil case, we might call it excessive use of force or wrongful death, and the standards are completely different," he said. "The law is completely different in federal court versus in state ...