A six-year-old boy was tried in the United States: in some states it is allowed by law

In the US state of North Carolina, a six-year-old boy was brought to trial. He was accused of causing damage to property due to the fact that he picked a tulip in a flower bed in a neighboring garden near the bus stop. Writes about this Hromadske. This became possible because ...

Personal experience: as an immigrant from Russia was a defendant in an American court

A few months ago I was in an accident and my car flipped onto its roof. Many police officers, fire trucks, and ambulances arrived. I thought I was going to get a big bill. Fortunately, this did not happen - but the story does not end there. Recently…

Russian 10 faces years in prison in the United States for purchasing aircraft instructions on eBay

Oleg Tishchenko, a Russian game developer, is being tried in the United States. For 15 years, he has been developing high-precision flight simulators and for better immersion in the topic, he bought documentation for various aircraft. For the purchase of several such instructions, a criminal case was opened against the Russian - in ...

New Yorker sued $ 110,6 million from hospital

A New York woman has won a lawsuit against a Bronx hospital and four doctors - she will now receive $110,6 million in compensation for criminal negligence of staff. Richard Gurfein, Kaymonia Redish's lawyer, believes this may be the largest settlement yet for this type of abuse...

In the USA, the main word of 2018 was chosen.

Searches for the word justice on Merriam-Webster's website are up 74% year-over-year, which is why the word "justice" has been chosen as the top word of the year in the United States by the American reference and vocabulary company. dictionaries. Racial justice. Obstruction of justice...

The court ordered Trump to resume the program to protect illegal immigrants DACA

On August 3, a federal judge ordered the administration of US President Donald Trump to renew the DACA program - Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which protects from deportation immigrants who entered the country illegally as children (the so-called “Dreamers”). The court also issued a ruling...

Lawyers fear that it will be harder to get political asylum in the US

Florida lawyers argue that the new US government may change the deadline for filing documents for political asylum, writes wlrn.org. This, in turn, will affect the overall process of obtaining this status in the United States. But while we are talking about cases that fell into ...

US jury trial: how to become a member of the jury or refuse to participate in the process

Almost any citizen can become a juror in the United States. The very system of courts with the participation of the people's jury has existed for many centuries. Today, ordinary Americans hear about 80% of civil and criminal cases. The right to administer justice to them is guaranteed by the 6th and 7th amendments to ...

A court in Hawaii has blocked the trump immigration ban

A federal judge in Hawaii has blocked a new US Immigration Order, which was due to take effect at midnight today. According to bbc.com, the decision of US District Judge Derrick Watson suspends the execution of the executive order. As a reminder, the new decree provides for a 90-day ban on ...

An American senator demands the extradition of the murderer of the co-owner of Brighton Bazaar.

Senator Chuck Schumer called on the US Department of Justice to make it a priority to resolve the issue of extradition from Australia of Abakar Gadiev, who is accused of murdering Vladimir Tolstykh, co-owner of the Brighton Bazaar supermarket in Brooklyn. In 2009, 35-year-old Tolstoy, father of four children,…

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