Thompson basically asked the Supreme Court, “when is a lie a lie?” It took his side, but the conviction of the former City ...

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of former Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, overturning two counts of lying to ...

"[A] statement that is misleading but true is by definition not a 'false statement,'" Chief Justice Roberts Jr. wrote in a ...

WASHINGTON (WLS) -- The U.S. Supreme Court is siding with a former Chicago alderman in his criminal conviction appeal.

The court ruled a statute used against the former Chicago alder doesn't apply to statements that are misleading but not false ...

Michael Leonard, Federal Defense Attorney at Leonard Trial Lawyers, joins Jon Hansen to answer listeners’ legal questions and trending legal news. Michael covers the case of Patrick ...

The justices unanimously said a law prohibiting “any false statement or report” did not cover misleading assertions that fell ...

Patrick Daley Thompson's 2022 criminal case centers around what he told regulators about three bank loans he took out from a ...

The Supreme Court on Friday threw out a ruling by a federal appeals court in Chicago that upheld the conviction of Patrick Daley Thompson, who served four months in a federal prison for making false ...

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the unanimous opinion, which does not overturn Thompson’s conviction but undoes a later ruling from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirming it. Roberts on ...

The Supreme Court unanimously sided with a Chicago political scion in his criminal appeal Friday, agreeing an anti-corruption ...

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