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Immigration cases deluge New Mexico federal courts

Edit The Washington Times 21 May 2016
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - New data shows criminal felony immigration cases in New Mexico's federal courts have only ballooned in the last five years. The Albuquerque Journal reports (http.//bit.ly/1WyBDsJ) that cases involving immigrants who re-enter after deportation are creating a huge backlog. The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse ... ....

Jail time delayed for convicted Ohio judge

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 21 May 2016
Black wrote that Hunter can petition a federal court to release her from her sentence "if her constitutional right to a fair trial was denied because the ......

SF officer accused of false testimony had previous reprimand

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 21 May 2016
Buckley testified in federal court May 12 about an incident in which he and other officers saw a man named Brandon Simpson walking quickly away from them, his hands tucked into his waistband, after police broke up an illegal dice game on a Tenderloin street corner Dec....

Bondholders suing Puerto Rico after territory defaults on loans

Edit WPTV 21 May 2016
The amended federal lawsuit filed late Friday in the U.S. District Court in San Juan names Puerto Rico's governor and treasury secretary as well as an unidentified bank receiver ... Puerto Rico government entities are barred from using federal bankruptcy laws, and a local bankruptcy law was struck down as unconstitutional by federal courts ... The U.S. Supreme Court is also reviewing decisions that overturned the local bankruptcy law. ....

Housing fraud case in Miami pits former partners against each other

Edit The Miami Herald 21 May 2016
Boggio backed out of an expected plea deal last September during a federal court hearing ... District Judge Ursula Ungaro will throw out his indictment at a hearing in Miami federal court, based on claims that the charges of conspiracy, theft and fraud are legally flawed. In court documents, Boggio’s defense attorneys assert that Matthew Greer’s parents ......

Oklahoma governor vetoes abortion bill that would have criminalized providers

Edit The Guardian 21 May 2016
Between 2012 and 2014, North Dakota paid just shy of $250,000 to defend its ban in state and federal court. The law was permanently struck down this year, at which point a federal court ordered the state to pay another $245,000 to the Center for Reproductive Rights, which North Dakota’s only abortion clinic hired to defeat the law ... Following a legal battle with the Center for Reproductive Rights, it was blocked in court....

19 charged with operating heroin ring in Shelby County school zone

Edit Commercial Appeal 21 May 2016
During the pursuit, a rectangular bundle flew out of the window, according to a court affidavit ... The men in the vehicle, David "Big Dave" Reed, Jermaine "Trell" Edwards and Derrick "D" Bond, were indicted in federal court this month on charges they conspired to possess with intent to distribute more than a kilogram of heroin. A fourth man, Carl "C-Dub" Douglas, was also federally indicted the heroin ring....

Utah man held 1,164 days in jail without a bond hearing

Edit Deseret News 21 May 2016
Various aspects of his case have been briefed and argued in immigration court, before the Board of Immigration Appeals and in federal court ... Utah County Chief Sheriff's Deputy Darin Durfey said the jail has a contract with the federal government involving immigration detainees and indicated it's up to those agencies and courts to determine when those prisoners are released....

Stull, Stull & Brody is Investigating Claims on Behalf of Target Corporation’s (NYSE:TGT) 401(k) Plan

Edit Stockhouse 21 May 2016
District Court for the District of Minnesota focuses on whether, between February 27, 2013 and May 19, 2014, the Company and its executives ... Stull, Stull & Brody has litigated many class actions for violations of securities laws in federal courts over the past 40 years and has obtained court approval of substantial settlements on numerous occasions....

Gangbangers busted after posing for pics in ‘stolen’ clothes

Edit New York Post 21 May 2016
Tyshawn Rivera, Derrick Reed, Markel Washington and Quentin Williams are charged in Brooklyn federal court with swiping the luxury clothing, $25,000 in cash and money orders and jewelry from an East New York home last Saturday, prosecutors say ... The reputed gangbangers were hauled into court Thursday for holding nine people — including five children — captive at gunpoint as they looted the Cypress Hills Houses apartment....

Walsh re-hires Kelly to probe tourism dept. for second time

Edit Boston Herald 21 May 2016
... indicted on federal extortion charges ... Walsh’s comments yesterday came less than 24 hours after Kenneth Brissette, Boston’s tourism czar, pleaded not guilty in federal court to charges stemming from allegations he withheld key city permits in order to force organizers of the Boston Calling music festival to hire union laborers in 2014....

US quietly drops El Chapo murder charges to ease drug lord's extradition

Edit The Guardian 21 May 2016
... charge sheet by federal prosecutors in New York without any official announcement ... Friday’s ruling covered an extradition request from a Texas federal court related to charges of conspiracy to import and distribute cocaine and marijuana, money laundering, arms possession and murder, and another extradition request from a federal court in California....

Former Google negotiator pleads guilty in Pittsburgh to failure to claim nearly $3 million on ...

Edit Pittsburgh Tribune Review 21 May 2016
A Maryland resident and former Google strategic negotiator pleaded guilty Friday in Pittsburgh’s federal court to conspiracy to defraud the United States by failing to ... ....
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