ARIELLE. STEVE. MONICA, LAWYERS ARE CALLING THIS A CRISIS BECAUSE AT THIS POINT, THOSE ATTORNEYS AREN’T GETTING PAID UNTIL OCTOBER. NOW, WHAT’S HAPPENING HERE IS THAT THE PROGRAM THAT USUALLY PAYS ...

Private defense attorneys who represent indigent clients in federal court are not getting paid for nearly three months — until Oct. 1. The U.S. Courts announced on July 3 that federal funding for the ...

Sean "'Diddy" Combs in September 2016. (Bob Levey/Getty Images) Sean “Diddy” Combs’s criminal trial on federal sex trafficking charges is scheduled to start with jury selection today in New York City.

LOS ANGELES — The longest U.S. government shutdown in history is officially over, but the fallout will continue to hit two groups particularly hard for months to come: federally funded defense lawyers ...

Their work is mandated by the Constitution, but their pay has been shorted by Congress. The money used to pay private attorneys appointed to represent defendants in Charlotte, North Carolina and ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The federal program that pays court-appointed private attorneys who represent criminal defendants has run out of money, leaving thousands of attorneys across the country working ...

LOS ANGELES — California defense attorneys facing the threat of eviction. Some paying for case-related expenses out of pocket. Others forced to stop taking federal court appointed cases to ensure ...

A funding crisis in the federal judicial branch is being exacerbated by the ongoing government shutdown, making travel arrangements difficult for the defense lawyers representing former V.I. Police ...

More than 95 private lawyers in Oregon who have been appointed to represent indigent defendants in federal court have not been paid since early July and are owed “well more” than half a million ...