Madeline Halpert & Sakshi Venkatraman BBC News, New York Reuters Mr Agnifilo framed Combs’ victims as willing participants in so-called freak-offs The sex trafficking and racketeering case against hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs was “badly, badly exaggerated”, his lawyer told a panel of 12 New York jurors on Friday. In his closing, Marc Agnifilo argued...
Frances Mao & Natasha Preskey BBC News Getty Images Aftermath of an Israeli strike at Fahmi Al-Jarjawi School in Gaza City on 26 May Hundreds of lawyers have called on the UK government to use “all available means” to stop the fighting in Gaza, including reviewing trade ties with Israel and imposing sanctions and travel...
Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut urged a federal judge to consider holding the officials in contempt of court. Democratic U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut on Tuesday urged a federal judge to consider holding U.S. officials in contempt of court following the Trump administration’s alleged deportation of multiple immigrants from Southeast Asia to South Sudan,...
US President Donald Trump’s administration has illegally deported two Asian men to South Sudan, immigration lawyers have told a court. In a submission to a federal judge in Boston, the attorneys said a flight carrying a dozen people, including citizens of Myanmar and Vietnam, landed in South Sudan on Tuesday. A previous court order bars...
After a tense first week, Sean “Diddy” Combs lawyers finished their cross-examination on the prosecution’s star witness, his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura. Combs faces charges of racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. The rapper has denied all of them. The BBC’s Nada Tawfik explains what happened when lawyers brought up old text...
Three young children who are US citizens – including one with cancer – were deported to Honduras alongside their mothers last week, according to advocacy groups and the families’ lawyers. One of the children is a four-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was sent without medication, a lawyer for the child’s family said. Donald Trump’s...
Coleen Rooney’s lawyers did not commit misconduct over her costs in the so-called Wagatha Christie row with Rebekah Vardy, a High Court judge has ruled. Mrs Vardy sued Mrs Rooney for libel in 2022 but lost. The pair are now locked in a further battle over how much Mrs Vardy should pay in legal costs....
Legal advocacy groups have issued a sharp rebuke to U.S. President Donald Trump’s directive aimed at holding “accountable” law firms and lawyers that, according to him, “engage in frivolous, unreasonable, and vexatious litigation against the United States.” “Accountability is especially important when misconduct by lawyers and law firms threatens our national security, homeland security, public...