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Television judge Greg Mathis is facing a lawsuit from a Los Angeles city worker who claims the TV personality threatened him with a gun during a heated confrontation outside Mathis’ home in July 2023.   In legal documents obtained by TMZ, Ricardo Acosta, a worker with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), alleges that Mathis became irate …

Embattled music mogul, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs compared himself to soon-to-be US president Donald Trump in another attempt to be bailed out of jail before Thanksgiving.The disgraced rapper’s lawyers cited Trump in a Monday court filing, pointing out the similarities between their respective legal situations.Lawyers quoted an appellate decision from Trump’s election interference case regarding the First Amendment.’Only a significant and imminent threat to the administration …

The sentencing in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case has been postponed indefinitely, a decision made by Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the case. The judge did not provide a new sentencing date in his order.    This marks the third time sentencing has been delayed since Trump was found guilty of fraudulently manipulating business records to conceal an …

Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has accused federal prosecutors of manipulating evidence to portray him as more dangerous ahead of his bail hearing scheduled for Friday. In court documents filed by his legal team,    Diddy alleges that prosecutors presented an edited version of a 2016 surveillance video to the judge, altering the sequence of events to strengthen their case …

Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Apo has cautioned Adeola Adedipe, counsel for former Minister of Power and Steel, Olu Agunloye, over delays in the ongoing trial. According to a statement by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the judge expressed frustration on Thursday over repeated adjournments, which Adedipe attributed to Agunloye’s health …

  A New York judge will decide whether to throw out Donald Trump’s conviction in his criminal “hush money” case based on the US Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity earlier this year.     The US president-elect faces up to four years in prison after he was found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up …

A federal judge has struck down a Biden administration program that would allow unauthorized immigrants married to American citizens to get legal status and U.S. citizenship, declaring the policy illegal.   U.S. District Court Judge J. Campbell Barker, an appointee of President-elect Donald Trump, found the program violates U.S. immigration law, agreeing with a lawsuit filed by Texas and more than a dozen other …

The Manhattan judge who oversaw Donald Trump’s hush-money criminal trial is expected to announce next week if the now-president-elect’s historic felony conviction will still stand.  Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan had already delayed sentencing by more than four months to come after the election — and gave himself until next Tuesday to decide if the conviction should be tossed.   Trump’s overwhelming election win will now further embolden his legal team …

In a legal battle that’s been brewing between music mogul Dr. Dre and his former therapist, Dr. Charles Sophy, a Los Angeles judge has ruled in Dre’s favor, dismissing a temporary restraining order initially granted to Sophy.     Dr. Sophy, a well-known child therapist, sought a permanent restraining order against Dr. Dre, citing fears for his safety after receiving …

A Federal High Court judge in Abuja, Justice Binta Nyako, has advised Lucky Okodeh, a former caretaker chair of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area in Bayelsa State, to consider an out-of-court settlement with the Nigerian Army.    Okodeh had filed a lawsuit against the military after his photograph was published among those declared wanted in connection with the killing of …