Civil cases refer to legal disputes between two or more parties stemming from non-criminal matters, such as contract or property disputes, personal injury claims, or family law matters like divorce and child custody.
FROM THE BENCH By: Judge Ashley Willcott FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA (Court TV) — The world is captivated by the dual defamation trial of Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard amid allegations of substance abuse and domestic violence. The Hollywood A-lister trial has been riddled with objections and sidebars, while the jury is left twiddling their thumbs, waiting […] More
May 23, 2022
Nearly six months after the deadly shooting at Oxford High School, the parents of one of the students who was killed has broken their silence and filed a new federal lawsuit. More
May 23, 2022
Depp blames Heard's 2018 op-ed for spinning his career into free fall. But Heard's lawyers claim that only Depp can be responsible for his star dimming in the Hollywood firmament. More
May 23, 2022
The trial for Johnny Depp's libel suit against ex-wife Amber Heard returned to the themes of Depp's jealousy and substance abuse. More
May 19, 2022
Court TV’s Chanley Painter reflects on her experience in the courtroom during the dramatic cross-examination of Amber Heard. More
May 19, 2022
Amber Heard's sister, Whitney Heard Henriquez, testified that she found herself in the middle of fights between her sister and Johnny Depp. More
May 18, 2022
Lawyers for Johnny Depp questioned the truthfulness of Amber Heard's claim that Depp sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle. More
May 17, 2022
Amber Heard concluded her direct testimony in a Virginia courtroom with a third day that was centered on the final months of her marriage to Johnny Depp. His lawyers began their cross-examination later in the afternoon. More
May 16, 2022
Court TV has exclusively obtained photos of what Johnny Depp's bodyguard referred to in his testimony as a "rearrangement" of Amber Heard's closet. More
May 12, 2022
The trial is on a pre-schedule break this week, but not before Heard took the stand to tell her side of the story on direct examination. More
May 12, 2022
Heard was back on the witness stand to defend herself against her ex-husband's libel allegations. More
May 5, 2022
After weeks of testimony and nearly 30 witnesses, including Johnny Depp himself, Depp's legal team rested his case-in-chief. More
May 5, 2022
Amber Heard told jurors how difficult it has been for her to relive her troubled marriage to Johnny Depp as part of a libel lawsuit he filed against her. More
May 4, 2022
A judge on Tuesday let Johnny Depp move forward with his libel suit against his ex-wife, Amber Heard, after the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star rested his case. More
May 3, 2022
Johnny Depp's agent testified Monday that his ex-wife's 2018 op-ed piece in The Washington Post describing herself as a victim of domestic abuse was "catastrophic" to his career and coincided with the loss of a $23 million deal for a "Pirates of the Caribbean" sequel. More
May 2, 2022
Redfin will change its minimum housing price policy, alter other practices, and pay $4 million to settle the suit brought against it by the National Fair Housing Alliance and nine other fair housing organizations in 2020. More
April 29, 2022
By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Amber Heard pushed to have details of her marriage with fellow actor Johnny Depp included in an op-ed piece that she wrote about domestic violence, even though her lawyers wanted those passages removed from the article, which is now the subject of a libel lawsuit, […] More
April 28, 2022
We’re back in Fairfax County, Virginia for more of our gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard Defamation Trial. More
April 28, 2022
“Just because I see a female with pink cheeks and pink eyes doesn't mean something happened,” he said in a recorded deposition played for jurors Wednesday. More
April 27, 2022
A forensic psychologist testified Tuesday that actor Amber Heard suffers from borderline personality disorder and histrionic personality disorder. More
April 26, 2022
By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Actor Johnny Depp concluded a grueling four days on the witness stand Monday, telling jurors in a calm voice that he filed his libel lawsuit against his ex-wife because it was his best chance to reclaim his reputation, just hours after they heard audio clips of […] More
April 25, 2022
“The next move, if I don't walk away ... it's going to be a bloodbath, like it was on the island,” Depp says on the recording. More
April 25, 2022
The NFL is telling a judge there are multiple reasons why a lawsuit brought against it by three Black coaches who allege racist hiring practices should fail. The league said it will either ask that the claims of coach Brian Flores and two other coaches be forced into arbitration or be dismissed without a trial because they lack legal merit. More
April 21, 2022
More than two years after the Boy Scouts of America sought bankruptcy protection to stave off a flood of lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse by Scout leaders and volunteers, a Delaware judge is weighing whether to confirm the BSA's reorganization plan. More
April 21, 2022
Attorneys for actor Amber Heard resumed their cross-examination of her ex-husband Johnny Depp in a Virginia courtroom on Thursday, taking aim at his alcohol and drug use as well as texts he sent to a friend about wanting to kill and defile his then-wife. More
April 21, 2022
Chanley Painter is in the courtroom daily and will join host Vinnie Politan with in person details about the testimony of Johnny Depp. More
April 21, 2022
Former star of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" NeNe Leakes sued the companies behind the show on Wednesday, alleging that they fostered and tolerated a hostile and racist work environment. More
April 20, 2022
By MATTHEW BARAKAT and BEN FINLEY Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Actor Johnny Depp scoffed at the notion during court testimony Wednesday that his constant quarrels with ex-wife Amber Heard would ever prompt him to hit her, and instead portrayed Heard as an abusive partner who threw bottles at him, faked domestic violence and […] More
April 20, 2022
A university in Ohio will pay a professor $500,000 years after disciplining him for using the wrong pronouns when addressing a student. Shawnee State University punished Nicholas Meriwether in 2018 for calling addressing a female transgender student as “sir.” More
April 19, 2022
Actor Johnny Depp took the stand Tuesday in his libel lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard, whom he says falsely accused him of domestic abuse. More
April 19, 2022
