First, a definition for moral turpitude — an act or behavior that gravely violates the sentiment or accepted standard of the community. Mind you, moral turpitude involves numerous definitions ...

Illegal immigrants can be deported, especially if they commit a crime. But if their crime is not a "crime involving moral turpitude," then they can ask the Justice Department to exercise its ...

David Chase, the creator of “The Sopranos,” once described his show as one in which all of the characters lied, all the time. “Everything that everybody says is untrue,” Chase told me. “Complete ...

The enrollment of A G Perarivalan — a former convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case — as an advocate on the Madras ...

BOSTON (CN) — The First Circuit this week canceled the deportation of a 30-year resident of the United States, rejecting a Board of Immigration Appeals ruling that assault and battery with a ...

Those of us who closely follow the machinations of the Supreme Court were expecting the Monday of Thanksgiving Week to be a big one. But instead of the expected and much-anticipated rulings on the two ...

The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. In its 1951 decision in Jordan ...

PITTSBURG – Three officers with the Pittsburg Police Department have been placed on paid administrative leave as the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s ...

When the Chatham County Board of Elections meets Tuesday to decide whether Chatham County Commission District 2 candidate Tony Riley is qualified to run for public office, his political fate will hang ...

(CN) – A Mexican immigrant’s conviction for indecent exposure is not necessarily a crime of “moral turpitude” warranting deportation, the 9th Circuit ruled Wednesday. The court ...

"Moral turpitude" is among the reasons cited by Michigan State University as it seeks to terminate head football coach Mel Tucker for cause, but experts say the phrase is ill-defined and legally ...