LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Republican Gov. Matt Bevin’s administration has won the latest round in a court fight over whether a former state worker can be compelled to provide information as part of its investigation of contracts awarded when Bevin’s Democratic predecessor was in office.

The ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A civil rights group’s lawsuit against the New Orleans District Attorney over a 2015 public records request was revived Wednesday by a Louisiana appellate court.

The lawsuit was filed in May 2017 by the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center, which said District ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — A civilian watchdog panel has filed a lawsuit, seeking to force Baltimore police to comply with subpoenas demanding 60 internal affairs files.

Baltimore’s nine-member civilian review board has been joined by 15 members of the public in the suit. Their complaint was filed ...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s Legislature voted to set up a bipartisan committee Monday to investigate Gov. Phil Murphy administration’s handling of a sexual assault allegation within state government.

The Democrat-controlled Assembly voted 74-0 with one member not voting, and the ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal prosecutor in Pennsylvania investigating priest-abuse complaints has asked a national bishops group and Roman Catholic dioceses across the U.S. to preserve their files related to sexual abuse complaints.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops confirms it ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A Maine court has tossed out an attempt by Democratic Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Janet Mills’ to subpoena a newspaper’s video interview with a 19-year-old who pleaded guilty to the murder of her parents.

Superior Court Justice Daniel Billings ...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The president of the Milwaukee Common Council says the city’s health department is being criminally investigated.

Ashanti Hamilton’s revelation comes in response to another alderman who criticized Hamilton for failing to issue a subpoena compelling former health ...

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A former Colorado district attorney is fighting a subpoena in a $750 million defamation lawsuit filed against CBS by JonBenet Ramsey’s brother.

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NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — The trial of a man accused of dealing drugs has been put on hold while his attorney subpoenas the personal cellphone records of the police officers who arrested his client.

Officials say 39-year-old Bennie Gray Jr. was set to go on trial in New London Superior ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s State Labor Commissioner has accused legislators of ignoring subpoenas issued by his agency in its investigation of sexual harassment at the Capitol.

The Wednesday court filings seek contempt of court rulings and $1,000 a day in fines against Senate President ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho officials sought to force a Texas oil company to turn over records following an evaluation showing what the state calls “discrepancies” involving production records.

The Idaho Oil and Gas Conservation Commission voted 5-0 on Wednesday to authorize subpoenas for ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia Judicial Investigation Commission has filed a motion to prevent its chairman from having to testify in an impeachment trial in the state Senate.

The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the commission’s attorneys ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A long-running dispute over wiretapping within the South Bend Police Department has cost taxpayers in the northern Indiana city nearly $2 million to date.

The case stems from a subpoena that South Bend’s city council issued to Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s (BOO’-tah-juhj) ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee on Thursday subpoenaed the Justice Department for memos written by former FBI acting director Andrew McCabe.

The committee is also demanding documents related to the FBI’s application to monitor the communications of former ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama city is asking a judge to deny a subpoena from county prosecutors for records related to a fatal police shooting.

Al.com reports Huntsville’s city ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Four men who said they were sexually abused as boys by a teacher at a Catholic church have reached a $27.5 million settlement with the Diocese of Brooklyn.

The New York Times reports Tuesday that the agreement is one of the largest settlements ever awarded to sexual abuse ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama city is refusing to comply with a subpoena for evidence regarding a Huntsville police officer indicted in the death of an armed man police say was suicidal.

News outlets report prosecutors asked a judge Monday to force the city to hand over evidence from ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Federal investigators seeking a massive number of voting records from North Carolina election officials also want voter registration documents from the state Division of Motor Vehicles.

A DMV spokesman confirmed Monday that the agency had received a subpoena recently ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s elections board agreed Friday to fight federal subpoenas seeking millions of voting documents and ballots, even after prosecutors delayed a quick deadline to fulfill their demands until early next year.

The State Board of Elections and Ethics ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii is seeking to find vacation rental owners who aren’t paying taxes by getting Airbnb to turn over rental records.

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Thursday backed off requiring North Carolina state and local elections officials to provide potentially tens of millions of ballots and voting documents within a few weeks while they gear up for administering midterm elections.

The U.S. ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A top state official’s subpoena powers were on the line as a Kentucky appeals court weighed a former state worker’s refusal to respond to demands for information from Gov. Matt Bevin’s administration.

An attorney for Frank Lassiter, the ex-state employee, said ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has filed a petition seeking to enforce his subpoena against a used vehicle dealership.

Morrisey’s office says in a news release a petition was filed Tuesday in Hancock County Circuit Court against Emuil Byard Jr., ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal magistrate is allowing attorneys to question a neo-Nazi website publisher’s father and accountant in connection with a lawsuit against the publisher.

SiriusXM Radio show host Dean Obeidallah says Andrew Anglin falsely labeled him as the “mastermind” behind a ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — An independent review panel has voted unanimously to subpoena the Baltimore Police Department for withheld internal affairs cases.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Government regulators have subpoenaed Tesla as they dig deeper into CEO Elon Musk’s recent disclosure about a potential buyout of the electric car maker, according to media reports.

The subpoena from the Securities and Exchange Commission demands information from each ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — In a May 29 story about the resignation of Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, The Associated Press erroneously reported the amount of time Greitens spent fighting to stay in office after his affair became public. It was nearly five months, not nearly six months.

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