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.
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
A group of Tesla shareholders suing CEO Elon Musk over some 2018 tweets about taking the company private is asking a federal judge to order Musk to stop commenting on the case. More
April 18, 2022
Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard jurors are expected to see famous witnesses such as Elon Musk, James Franco, Ellen Barkin and Paul Bettany. More
April 15, 2022
A federal lawsuit challenging Idaho's ban on transgender athletes in women's sports will likely move forward after both sides agreed that the woman who sued is again enrolled at Boise State University and competing in school athletics. More
April 14, 2022
The family of Gabby Petito will get a jury trial in their suit against the parents of Brian Laundrie. More
April 14, 2022
A former personal assistant to Amber Heard said she never saw the actress suffer any physical abuse at the hands of then-husband Johnny Depp — but she said Heard once spit in her face when she asked for a higher salary. Heard descended into screaming fits of blind rage, sent incoherent text messages at 4 a.m. and was often drunk and high on illegal drugs, Kate James testified in a video deposition that was played in court Thursday during the trial for Depp's libel suit against Heard. More
April 14, 2022
Frontier Airlines has settled a discrimination lawsuit brought by a group of flight attendants who claimed the carrier discriminated against them during pregnancy and while breastfeeding. More
April 13, 2022
A longtime friend and next-door neighbor of Johnny Depp testified Wednesday that Depp's ex-wife, Amber Heard, had told him the movie star threw a phone at her and hit her inside the couple's Los Angeles penthouse. More
April 13, 2022
A trial over libel allegations by Johnny Depp against his ex-wife, Amber Heard, will likely turn into a six-week, mudslinging soap opera, Heard's lawyers warned a Virginia jury Tuesday. More
April 12, 2022
A panel of 7 jurors and 4 alternates was selected to hear the $50 million dollar defamation case that actor Johnny Depp is bringing against his ex-wife Amber Heard, who is countersuing with her own defamation claim seeking $100 million in damages. More
April 11, 2022
A jury was selected Monday to hear a long-anticipated libel lawsuit Johnny Depp filed against his ex-wife, actress Amber Heard, whom he accuses of falsely portraying him as a domestic abuser. More
April 11, 2022
Johnny Depp is suing Amber Heard for defamation. He claims his ex-wife damaged his reputation when she wrote about domestic abuse in a Washington Post op-ed. More
April 8, 2022
The family of Brian Laundrie filed a motion to dismiss a pending lawsuit filed by the family of his former fiancé, Gabby Petito. More
March 31, 2022
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Scripps News West Palm)— The family of a 79-year-old woman who fell to her death while attempting to cross a Florida drawbridge is suing the bridge tender and the company that manages the bridge. According to a lawsuit filed Monday in Palm Beach County court, the family of Carol Wright […] More
March 28, 2022
Depp sued Heard for libel in Virginia after The Washington Post published her opinion piece. More
March 25, 2022
Former Google employee sued tech giant for racial discrimination saying it engages in "pattern and practice" of unfair treatment for Black workers. More
March 21, 2022
About five weeks before the shooting, an FBI tip line received a call saying Nikolas Cruz had bought guns and planned to "slip into a school and start shooting the place up.” More
March 17, 2022
Parents of Gabby Petito claim in a new Florida lawsuit that Brian Laundrie told his parents he had killed her before he returned home alone from their ill-fated western trip in a converted van. More
March 11, 2022
Rocker Marilyn Manson sued his former fiancee, “Westworld" actor Evan Rachel Wood, on Wednesday over her allegations that he sexually and physically abused her during their relationship. More
March 3, 2022
A third federal lawsuit has been filed against Oxford Community Schools and other defendants following the deadly shooting last year on Nov. 30. More
February 25, 2022
U.S. women's national team players who spent years battling for pay equity lauded as historic an agreement by U.S. Soccer to pay $24 million to settle a discrimination dispute with the team, as well as a commitment to equalize pay and bonuses to match the men's team. More
February 22, 2022
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin lost her libel lawsuit against The New York Times on Tuesday when a jury rejected her claim that the newspaper maliciously damaged her reputation by erroneously linking her campaign rhetoric to a mass shooting. More
February 15, 2022
A judge said Monday he'll dismiss a libel lawsuit that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin filed against The New York Times, claiming the newspaper damaged her reputation with an editorial falsely linking her campaign rhetoric to a mass shooting. More
February 14, 2022
Fired Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores sued the NFL and three teams on Tuesday over alleged racist hiring practices for coaches and general managers, saying the league remains "rife with racism" even as it publicly condemns it. More
February 1, 2022
Relatives of Robert Durst's first wife, who disappeared in 1982, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against his second wife. More
February 1, 2022
Testimony drew to a close Tuesday in the dueling defamation lawsuits brought by former U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore and the woman who accused him of sexual misconduct when she was a teen. More
February 1, 2022
Former U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore, testifying in a defamation case brought by a woman who said he sexually touched her decades ago when she was 14, maintained Monday that he never met his accuser. More
January 31, 2022
The widow and two sisters of a U.S. Marine killed in Afghanistan are suing Alec Baldwin, alleging the actor exposed them to a flood of social media hatred by claiming on Instagram that one sister was an "insurrectionist" for attending former President Donald Trump's Washington, D.C., rally on Jan. 6 last year. More
January 19, 2022
