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 on Friday sided with former Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, finding that a law he’d been convicted under outlaws false statements but not misleading ones, as his ...

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

DOJ's track record in this regard is not good. Yet, if you read the opinion, you would have no idea that "Patrick Thompson" was a politician. The case was styled in the cert petition as Patrick D.

Kansas City Chiefs defensive lineman BJ Thompson, known for playing alongside stars Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce, has ...

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 ...

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

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

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

The Department of Justice is reviewing the convictions in the landmark “ComEd Four” bribery case involving former House ...

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