The family of a teen who was executed by the state of Pennsylvania after being convicted of murder in 1931 have filed a lawsuit seeking damages nearly 100 years after his death. On Monday, attorneys for the family of Alexander McClay Williams, who was executed by the state when he was just 16-years-old, announced that they were bringing forward a lawsuit over Williams’ execution after his conviction was vacated in 2022 and a new trial was ordered. However, Williams was not retried posthumously,...
The family of Alexander McClay Williams sued Delaware County, Pa., more than 90 years after the teen was wrongfully convicted of murder and executed.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The family of the youngest person ever executed in the state of Pennsylvania — a Black 16-year-old sent to the electric chair in 1931 and exonerated by the governor in 2022 — is suing the county that prosecuted him. Alexander McClay Williams was convicted of murder in the October 1930 icepick stabbing […]
DENVER — The Black former police chief of a small Colorado town says he was the victim of racial discrimination and fired after officers and city leaders worked to force him out even though he was cleared of wrongdoing by an independent investigator, according to a federal lawsuit. Hal Edwards, who sued the city of Leadville, 75 miles southwest of Denver, in U.S. District Court in Denver on April 30, says in the lawsuit that City Administrator Laurie Simonson undermined his decision-making and...
The Department of Justice and civil rights groups filed two lawsuits on Thursday to block an Iowa immigration bill from taking effect.
Starr County, District Attorney Gocha A. Ramirez and Assistant District Attorney Alexandria Lynn Barrera have filed motions to dismiss the lawsuit against them filed by attorneys representing Lizelle Gonzalez.
Actor Angie Harmon filed a lawsuit against Instacart and one of its former shoppers, who shot and killed her dog at her Charlotte home earlier this year.
DAVENPORT, Iowa (OSV News) — Separate lawsuits filed by the U.S. Justice Department and civil rights groups claim that the state of Iowa’s new immigration law, which creates a state crime for unlawful reentry, violates federal law and the U.S. Constitution. Both lawsuits were filed May 9, eight days after prayer rallies and marches organized […] The post US Justice Department, civil rights groups file lawsuits against Iowa over immigration law first appeared on OSV News.
Lawyers for the family of Angelo Quinto announced Wednesday they reached a $7.5 million settlement with the City of Antioch over his death.
Survivors of the 2018 mass shooting near Houston, and the relatives of the 10 people who died, are seeking to hold the shooter's parents responsible in a lawsuit seeking more than $1 million in damages. The criminal case is indefinitely on hold because the accused shooter is not mentally competent to stand trial.
ELVIS Presley’s historic Graceland home could be sold off at a foreclosure auction this week if appeals by surviving family members are unsuccessful. According to a legal notice filed this mo
Kevin Bui was 16 when he led his teenage accomplices on a botched revenge mission for a stolen phone in August 2020. They doused walls with gasoline after breaking into the Denver home where five adults and three children were sleeping. A six-month-old and a 21-month old were among the five dead found behind the locked front door. Bui was the last of the three to be sentenced and will serve 60 years in prison after his lawyers reached a plea deal