Brooklyn Nets owner Prokhorov ready to begin legal proceedings against former Moscow Anti-Doping lab

Mikhail Prokhorov, a Russian businessman and owner of the NBA team Brooklyn Nets, has stated his intention to initiate legal proceedings in the US against the former head of the Moscow Anti-Doping laboratory, Grigory Rodchenkov. Rodchenkov, whose claims of a state-sponsored doping program operating in Russia for many years have triggered a wave of doping […]

Judge nixes Alabama law that put pregnant teen girls seeking abortions through trial-like proceedings

10 Face/Shutterstock MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge has struck down Alabama’s one-of-a-kind law that enabled judges to put minors seeking abortions through a trial-like proceeding in which the fetus could get a lawyer and prosecutors could object to the pregnant girl’s wishes. Alabama legislators in 2014 changed the state’s process for girls who […]

The White House is reportedly starting to prepare for the distant possibility of impeachment proceedings

Getty Images/Pool White House attorneys are said to be researching impeachment procedures, CNN reported Friday, amid an avalanche of unflattering news hitting President Donald Trump’s White House. Officials at the White House have called a Trump impeachment a “distant” and “unlikely” possibility, according to CNN justice correspondent Evan Pérez, who cited two people briefed on […]

Federal judge rejects Justice Department’s bid to stop court proceedings on travel ban

AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta SEATTLE/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A U.S. federal judge on Monday rejected a Justice Department request to suspend Seattle courtroom proceedings over President Donald Trump’s temporary ban on travel from seven Muslim-majority countries until an appeals court has fully reviewed it. The U.S. Justice Department had argued that the 9th U.S. Circuit […]