El Chapo’s Efforts to Ease Jail Restrictions Fail

By ALAN FEUER May 4, 2017 Almost from the moment this winter that Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the notorious drug lord known as El Chapo, was extradited from Mexico to a high-security jail in Lower Manhattan, he has been complaining about the terms of...

Chicago Schools Ex-Leader Is Sentenced as Classrooms Struggle to Stay Open

The district’s uncertainty was compounded when a judge declined to issue an injunction requested by the city that might have led to a desperately needed influx of cash.

Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Withhold Money From Sanctuary Cities

By VIVIAN YEE April 25, 2017 A federal judge in California on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to withhold funding from cities that limit their cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, another setback for...

John T. Curtin, Judge Who Desegregated Buffalo Schools, Dies at 95

By RICHARD SANDOMIR April 20, 2017 John T. Curtin, a federal judge whose rulings forced Buffalo to desegregate its schools and the Occidental Chemical Corporation to clean the chemical wastes at the toxic Love Canal landfill, died on April 14 in Orchard...

Monday’s Arkansas Execution Halted by State Justices

By ALAN BLINDER April 17, 2017 VARNER, Ark. — Hours before the state hoped to carry out its first execution in more than a decade, the Arkansas Supreme Court on Monday moved to block the inmate from being put to death. The decision was a significant...