Mitchell G. Patton

Opening arguments began Monday in the federal trial of Sayfullo Saipov, the Uzbek immigrant who in 2017 plowed into a rented van on a New York City bike path, killing eight people in his path of destruction. The October 31 attack was the deadliest terrorist attack in New York City since September 11, 2001. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty, marking the first federal death penalty trial under President Joe Biden's administration. . Saipov was charged with 28 counts, including eight counts of murder, attempted murder and one count of providing and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic…

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday allowed Meta to file a lawsuit alleging that an Israeli company illegally accessed WhatsApp's servers by installing spyware on users' devices.The judges rejected NSO Group Technologies' appeal, arguing that it was immune from suit because it was acting on behalf of unidentified foreign governments. Meta owns the messaging platform WhatsApp, as well as the social networking sites Facebook and Instagram. The case will now move forward in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. The lawsuit, filed in October 2019, alleges that NSO violated various laws, including the federal Computer…

A US Army lieutenant who was pepper-sprayed, beaten and handcuffed by police in rural Virginia but never arrested will argue before a jury that he was assaulted and falsely imprisoned and that his vehicle was illegally searched.Video of the 2020 traffic stop garnered millions of views the following year after Caron Nazario filed the now-hearing federal lawsuit, highlighting fears of mistreatment among black drivers and intensifying scrutiny of the boundaries of police conduct. reasonable and lawful.The episode it also served as a grim sign for many African Americans that military uniforms do not necessarily protect against abuse of authority by…