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 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
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
