Newly filed criminal indictments, newly filed civil lawsuits and class actions, charging decisions, plea deals, sentencings, settlements, and other notable legal news at federal, state, and local levels in the United States. EXCLUDES jury verdicts.
The $2.67 billion Blue Cross Blue Shield antitrust settlement began distributing payments in May 2026, with about 6 million claimants receiving an average of $333 each.
A federal court in San Francisco holds a final approval hearing May 7 for a $50 million class action settlement over race discrimination claims against Google.
A federal grand jury indicted 51 people April 21, 2026, in an Oklahoma black-market marijuana trafficking scheme that exploited the state’s licensed farm system.
The DOJ filed a civil forfeiture complaint to seize a $30M Beverly Hills mansion allegedly purchased with proceeds from a military fuel contract fraud scheme in Iraq.
A federal grand jury indicted three Minnesota residents for assaulting Turning Point USA journalist Savannah Hernandez at an anti-ICE protest in St. Paul.
A Green Beret faces federal charges for using classified intelligence about the Maduro capture to net $410,000 on Polymarket, the first case of its kind.
A federal grand jury indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on April 21, 2026, on wire fraud and money laundering charges tied to alleged secret payments to extremist informants.
Federal grand jury indicts former NIAID senior adviser David Morens on conspiracy and records-concealment charges tied to COVID-19 research FOIA evasion.
A federal grand jury indicted former FBI Director James Comey on two counts tied to an Instagram post the DOJ says threatened President Trump, the 47th president.
Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, faces three federal felony counts after allegedly shooting a Secret Service officer at the 2026 White House Correspondents’ Dinner.